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Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Notion did it first and arguably better[1]. Shared agents benefit from shared context. The hardest part is ensuring that shared context is maintained and it converges on a representation of reality and the people in the company. [1] https://www.notion.com/help/custom-agents

In demo videos, it shows Memory under Files, so i assume it holds learnings and shared context.

Yeah, the memory is cool, just a file store that you can instruct the agent to use however you see fit.

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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post #16

I feel for the startups sweating each one of these frontier lab releases. How many more are thinking “am I next?”

Yeah, I’m happy I gave up, it’s just not possible to compete and the constant stress to try to keep up is not worth it.

(I built https://nelly.is as a solo founder without funding)

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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post #18
post #3

Notion did it first and arguably better[1]. Shared agents benefit from shared context. The hardest part is ensuring that shared context is maintained and it converges on a representation of reality and the people in the company. [1] https://www.notion.com/help/custom-agents

Notion, as any other thin-AI product out there, is now in Anthropic/OpenAI/Google's crosshairs. Unless one has a moat the size of SharePoint or Google Docs or OneDrive, it's just a feature away.

I really like Notion's UI. I wish they would focus only on that and let me access my Notion DB as .md files with Claude.

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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post #23
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notion, as any other thin-AI product out there, is now in Anthropic/OpenAI/Google's crosshairs. Unless one has a moat the size of SharePoint or Google Docs or OneDrive, it's just a feature away.

I really like Notion's UI. I wish they would focus only on that and let me access my Notion DB as .md files with Claude.

Yes, please. Their MCP suuuuuuuucks

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post #23
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notion, as any other thin-AI product out there, is now in Anthropic/OpenAI/Google's crosshairs. Unless one has a moat the size of SharePoint or Google Docs or OneDrive, it's just a feature away.

I really like Notion's UI. I wish they would focus only on that and let me access my Notion DB as .md files with Claude.

I know this is probably out of scope, but I'd love it as well if Notion could slowly accrete the features of Airtable... at least expose some form of programmatic access to tables!

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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post #19

Tried it to automate something that was on my to do list for the day. I had blocked off a few hours for this and managed to get the agent working reasonably well (85%) of the way there in The main remaining part is the poor docx / pdf / final output but will create a skill/workflow to get around that. Worked really well end-end!

Cool to hear, glad you enjoyed it! If you want to send any feedback on the output, feel free to send it to josiah at openai and I can take a look.

Great work on the feature and sure I'll do that. :)

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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Without commenting on the product itself (I haven't tried it), the marketing copy around this release commits the same sins I have seen from Anthropic and Grok and all the rest of them. I'm so tired of seeing these companies trivializing other people's work! Nobody's job is "edit files" and "respond to messages"! People have jobs like "find and close leads" and "reconcile accounts" and "arrange student field trips" a…

They have to be generic because it's a generic tool. If they write "this tool can arrange student field trips", people might ignore thinking it has a narrow purpose.

Yes, work is being trivialized, but the symptom here isn't caused by that.

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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post #29

Without commenting on the product itself (I haven't tried it), the marketing copy around this release commits the same sins I have seen from Anthropic and Grok and all the rest of them. I'm so tired of seeing these companies trivializing other people's work! Nobody's job is "edit files" and "respond to messages"! People have jobs like "find and close leads" and "reconcile accounts" and "arrange student field trips" a…

They have to be generic because it's a generic tool. If they write "this tool can arrange student field trips", people might ignore thinking it has a narrow purpose. Yes, work is being trivialized, but the symptom here isn't caused by that.

The issue is not that they are generic. You could still be generic with phraseology that actually acknowledged the contributions and ownership involved in the jobs being done. For example, you could write e.g. "monitor for outages", "manage projects", "arrange community events", "handle logistics", and so on.

But the problem is LLMs can't do those things. All they can do is "edit files" and "send messages".

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