# OpenAI's Greg Brockman discusses computer use as an alternative to purpose-built AI agent integrations

DevFeed: [OpenAI's Greg Brockman discusses computer use as an alternative to purpose-built AI agent integrations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/openai-president-the-computer-should-be-there-to-empower-you-so-stop-retooling-software-for-ai-agents-26950.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/computer-use-agent-connectors/>)

Author: Meredith Shubel

Published: 2026-09-15T23:41:22Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [computer-use](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-use.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>), [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>), [Reinforcement learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reinforcement-learning.md>)

Tags: [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [computer-use](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-use.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [model-context-protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model-context-protocol.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [reinforcement-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reinforcement-learning.md>)

## AI overview

OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman discusses whether AI agents could use computers through screens, keyboards, and mice instead of relying on purpose-built MCP servers, CLIs, APIs, and other integrations.

## Source excerpt

This week on the a16z show, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, made the point that developers have been The post OpenAI president: "The computer should be there to empower you." So stop retooling software for AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.