DALL·E shuts down May 12 — the gpt-image-1 migration isn't the drop-in swap it looks like

OpenAI is deprecating DALL·E 2 and DALL·E 3 APIs on May 12, 2026, recommending gpt-image-1 and gpt-image-1-mini as replacements. This migration is not a simple drop-in swap, as clients will need to adapt to different request and response shapes without a grace period or automatic fallback.