Why My R&D Is Just Spent Getting to Product Parity With the Giants “These products are expensive to build. A lot of my R&D is just keeping up with the Joneses. Your agent has to be at least as capable as everyone else’s, because if Codex can do something you can’t, and that thing matters to users, it’s over. It’s not like I have two engineers keeping up with Codex. Codex is 100 people making that thing better, and if we’re not as good, the user says, ‘Why would I pay $50 a month for Town…