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

"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 ?

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!

Agents at the edge of business where they can work independently, asynchronously, is an approach that I don't feel was explored enough in business environments.

Sending your entire communication and documents to OpenAI would be a very bold choice.

- How you keep on top of what they are up to?

- How do they organize and coordinate?

I think this can only work based on a solid agent id system.

Shameless plug: I have been working on a solution for it, available at https://github.com/awebai/aweb and with a distributed, independently verifiable, and fully open id system at https://awid.ai

I wonder if this could be made to work with OpenAI's workspace agents.

How many more are thinking “am I next?”

I'm either genuinely missing some key harness/whatever, or businesses are going to have issues down the line.

another thing: this is all on OpenAI's servers. Which is fine if that's what you want. But there's a real class of user — technical, working on actual production code, security-conscious — for whom "my workspace lives on my machine, in my git repo, under my version control, works for my other non-openai tools" is a hard requirement, not a preference.

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" and "make sure the hospital has enough inventory", not "generate reports" and "write code".

Editing files, producing reports, even writing code is just a byproduct. This is like the idiotic "lines of code produced" metric, but now they apply it to all of society.

Edit: To answer my own question "Workspace agents are available in research preview in ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans."

Funny we landed on the same terminology. Will need to connect Stripe.

Zzz this is boring. So much for scaling up compute and data = intelligence.

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.