Thoughts on OpenAI DevDay

After trying dots, haha, it felt a bit like a financial derivative to me: another layer on top of a project and its sessions. What I found interesting was having a dot create and coordinate delegated task sessions, steer tasks into new projects, and bring the results back without opening each session myself. Neat.

I’ve built something similar in my plugins repo, coordinating coding harness sessions as part of my workflow. Using dots felt quite similar, but I’ve been hitting locked Codex sessions in my plugin workflow. Others have reported the same “already has an active writer” error.

With dots, I’ve been able to open a session it created and continue it separately without hitting that problem. I wonder whether they’ve improved session handoff in a way my plugin could take advantage of. It’ll take me a while to figure out how dots fit into my workflow.

I’m most excited about OpenAI’s plugin extensions, especially for Mempipe, which I’m building. Apps can now live in ChatGPT’s sidebar, open beside a conversation, and provide their own file viewers and editors.

That was the core idea behind Mempipe: build alongside coding and working harnesses and extend what they can do, rather than compete with them. People should be able to use Mempipe together with their harness.

I’m also excited about the possibility of people bringing their own ChatGPT subscription to an app’s own agent. That fits what we’re trying to do at Mempipe. We want the value to come from how the app helps people solve problems, rather than from reselling access to models.

I’ve built real-time collaborative productivity tools, so ChatGPT’s Spaces and Pages interest me too. Mempipe also uses “Space” to describe the place where a team works together.

That made me curious about what was underneath. Looking through the browser’s JavaScript bundles, I found ProseMirror in the Pages editor and Yjs in its page collaboration code.