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by delegate 52 days ago
Who asked for this ? I'm genuinely curious.

"If only I had an agent which does everything at work for me". The logical continuation would be 'then I wouldn't have to work', right ?

No. Just as with coding agents, it doesn't mean less work - it means a lot more work of a different kind with the main challenge - don't loose your mind when managing the outputs from these agents.

Look at it another way - if these agents work perfectly and really increase productivity and profits and companies agentify all of their processes/development - then won't these companies essentially become extensions of OpenAI and not the other way around ?

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Disclaimer: I work at OpenAI. Lots of people! I get a lot of value out of these already.

If it helps, here's an example: Our team shares wonderful customer demos in Slack. In the past, these would get lost in Slack unless someone took the time to manually create the documentation and log it in Notion.

That meant no one really logged them and the example of good work was lost.

Now, I tag workspace agent in the slack thread, it reads the thread, puts it into the right shape, and logs it (with considerably high fidelity). Saves us time, does the job no one wanted to do, and helps new hires+tenured folks like me learn from our colleagues.

(I used to use Codex to do the same thing by sharing the slack link, but now can skip that step).

Youre putting resources into building these kinds of things? lol... this is actually hilarious.

You may think its value add, but from what Im seeing from a valuation stand point theres no way the valuation of OAI makes any sense.