Your theory of how companies work is certainly interesting.

It sounds like you think they have solved the principal–agent problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

> the best move OpenAI could do is insisting that they just used an insurmountable number of tokens to exhaust all the published directions

So… lie more? They knew the approach and started there.

At least they were honest about that.