Huang: Chat Interfaces Should Be Standardized Drop-in Components Like Stripe Checkout
Christina Huang · DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever · Oct 7, 2025 · at 36:30
Christina Huang, an ex-Stripe engineer now on OpenAI's Platform team, compares OpenAI's ChatKit strategy to Stripe Elements.
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“Yeah, so it's very similar philosophically, right? So Stripe, you know, can build elements and check out, and not every business needs to rebuild, right, the pieces that are really common, and I think we see the same with chat. We see chat being built over and over again especially as we kind of come up with new, you know, modalities, like Reasoning, everything, it's not really something that is easy to keep up to date, and so we should just do that and leave kind of the hard parts of building agents again to the developers.”
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