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Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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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.

Take a look at Outline! I use it almost exactly like a cloud based Obsidian vault. And they have been very responsive for MCP feature requests

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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I just want a guarantee that OpenAI isn't just going to steal my ideas as I design my own agents. And if they did, I want compensation. I think of my custom skills, MCP servers, agents, etc, as intellectual property.

Oh I know I was begging for someone to talk about how OpenAI didn't compensate mankind previous to me. My concern still stands for me.

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I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing o…

Or she could have done it manually, and spent orders of magnitude more time and energy.

The scarce resource preventing more people from the ideal solution of using a script in your scenario is you. Most people can’t write a script, so their options are slow and “expensive” manual process, or the 100x as efficient AI. The 1000x as efficient script isn’t an option (well, until the model is good enough to know it should obviously just write the script too).

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing o…

To make this a fair comparison, you'd also need to include how much they paid you to write the script, how long it took, and how much energy you used.

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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From the announcement, I'm getting only a vague idea about what this is. It sounds like this Agent might run in some kind of sandbox with access to files? It would be nice if there were some documentation for the environment it runs in and what tools it has.

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing o…

Or she could have done it manually, and spent orders of magnitude more time and energy. The scarce resource preventing more people from the ideal solution of using a script in your scenario is you . Most people can’t write a script, so their options are slow and “expensive” manual process, or the 100x as efficient AI. The 1000x as efficient script isn’t an option (well, until the model is good enough to know it shoul…

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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

How does it suck? I use it almost daily and love their Notion MCP

Re: Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

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“Altman anticipates that by 2027, AGI will have materialised.” - Feb 17 2025: https://yourstory.com/2025/02/sam-altmans-2035-ai-prediction

So we’ve got about a year and a half max until we have AGI and OpenAI is launching a bunch of in house harnesses.

They must have some crazy shit cooking in the back rooms. So super duper top secret they can’t even announce it. Because if their public models are any hint, you would never think we were 18 months away from human level machine intelligence.

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