Operating a product built on somebody else's model.
Notes by Andy Swift.
I run a third-party web interface for OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5. That means my product's most important component is built, priced, versioned and occasionally changed by somebody else, with no obligation to tell me first. This notebook is about what that is actually like to operate.
The interface is not an OpenAI product and is not affiliated with OpenAI. It calls the API and prints the model id that answered.
One consequence of the situation described here is that a changelog becomes load-bearing in a way it is not for ordinary software, because a proportion of the entries are about things you did not do. Mine is kept as a running log of generator, pricing and policy changes rather than a release-notes page written after the fact.
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