ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

For me the most interesting example on this page is the sticker gif halfway down the page.

Up until now, chatbots haven't really affected the real world for me†. This feels like one of the first moments where LLMs will start affecting the physical world. I type a prompt and something shows up at my doorstep. I wonder how much of the world economy will be driven by LLM-based orders in the next 10 years.

† yes I'm aware self driving cars and other ML related things are everywhere around us and that much of the architecture is shared, but I don't perceive these as LLMs.

I wonder if this can ever be as extensible/flexible as the local agent systems like Claude Code. Like can I send up my own tools (without some heavyweight "publish extension" thing)? Does it integrate with MCP?

It's not the Manhattan Project. I'm flagging your comment because it is insubstantial flamebait. We don't even know how valuable this tech is, you're jumping to conclusions.

(I am American, convince me my digression is wrong)

It's just a ~~reduce~~ loop, with an API call to an LLM in the middle, and a data-structure to save the conversation messages and append them in next iterations of the loop. If you wanna get fancy, you can add other API calls, or access to your filesystem. Nothing to go crazy about...