What Nobody Tells You About the OpenAI Assistants API in Production
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The OpenAI Assistants API was supposed to make building AI agents simple. Upload your files, define some tools, wire up a thread, and you have an agent. It's a compelling pitch. Teams use it because it's familiar — they already use OpenAI for everything else — and because the time-to-first-demo is genuinely short.
Then they hit production.