OpenAI introduces plugins for its Codex programming assistant

Source: SiliconANGLE

The race to productize AI extensibility reveals that the real competitive moat is no longer the base model itself—it’s becoming the ecosystem lock-in around it, as OpenAI mirrors Anthropic’s plugin strategy to prevent developers from defecting to specialized tooling. This signals we’re entering the “platform wars” phase of AI, where the winner takes the developer relationship, not necessarily the one with the smartest weights.