“Augmentation vs. automation” is real, but it is a product of the firm/social context, not of the technology itself. I don’t believe that OpenAI can or will restrict how their customers use their AI products to “augmentative” uses only. Regardless of Altman’s stated intentions, people are going to hire fewer copywriters and junior devs as a result of ChatGPT and Codex. That is not a decision that OpenAI gets to make.