🔴 LIVE from OpenAI DevDay
TBPN broadcasts live from OpenAI DevDay 2026, covering new launches including personal AI agents, ChatGPT Work, Codex Cloud, and GPT-6.1 Soul, with interviews from Sam Altman and others.
The gist
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Personal agents called Dots work proactively, noticing tasks and surfacing solutions without users needing to prompt them.
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Sam Altman says AI booked haircuts before solving complex equations, so teams should ship and let users find the value.
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Ultra-fast inference running at 8x speed makes real-time collaboration feel conversational rather than transactional, unlocking new interaction patterns.
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Companies that block AI agents to protect legacy models will lose customers to those offering agent-friendly APIs, making distribution strategy as important as the AI itself.
"If you want to do something manually, do it with Codex. If you want to delegate it, go use a dot. This dot, it has your back. It figures out how to help you. It just helps you get so much more value out of this. I've been looking forward to this for years. I'm a product manage..."
▶ Play at 30:56"I've mostly been using it for work and it is amazing for that. I feel like it has me back and the ability to like explore and do things and I love it for that. I really feel it with dots. I think people are going to get that."
▶ Play at 14:3710 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Claire Vo, and Dan Shipper.
See all on the Dots page
John Coogan uses it
"I'll often open ChatGPT and realize there's a very important email that I need to respond to and somehow it got mixed up, and then you kind of wish it pinged you."
▶ Play at 20:34163 creators recommend it, including Peter Yang, Riley Brown, and Claire Vo.
See all on the ChatGPT pageWhat they recommend · 12 picks
AI tools
8 picks · Alexander Bericos, Peter Steinberger, John Coogan, and Sam Altman
"If you want to do something manually, do it with Codex. If you want to delegate it, go use a dot. This dot, it has your back. It figures out how to help you. It just helps you g..."
"I built a little ESP device and it has display issues. So I glued my webcam to the display. Codex ran overnight and fixed the display driver."
"I'm responsible for like 45 of those. I make them for everything. I love them. It's like my favorite product. I love sites. I think it's really good for on-the-fly UI — I was di..."
Productivity
2 picks · Alexander Bericos and Tibo Sottiaux
"I'm a product manager so I spend a lot of my day in Slack and I mostly talk to my dot in Slack. Your dot has its own identity in Slack, so it's available wherever you talk."
"We have them running on Mac Mini. We provision them exactly like employees — we mint a new little identity and then it's got IAM and the roles. We give them a very premium machi..."
Other picks
2 picks · Casey Neistat and John Coogan
"My favorite 35mm point and shoot is this Olympus. $150 when it came out. They stopped making it whatever 15 years ago. Every time I'd break one, I just buy it off eBay for 50 bu..."
"I was modeling stuff in Blender. I haven't touched 3D rendering for a long time. And I can — I'm building video games and stuff. I saw that okay, we've crossed this threshold — ..."
John Coogan
5 picks
"I'm responsible for like 45 of those. I make them for everything. I love them. It's like my favorite product. I love sites. I think it's really good for on-the-fly UI — I was di..."
"I'll often open ChatGPT and realize there's a very important email that I need to respond to and somehow it got mixed up, and then you kind of wish it pinged you."
"I was modeling stuff in Blender. I haven't touched 3D rendering for a long time. And I can — I'm building video games and stuff. I saw that okay, we've crossed this threshold — ..."
Alexander Bericos
3 picks · guest
"If you want to do something manually, do it with Codex. If you want to delegate it, go use a dot. This dot, it has your back. It figures out how to help you. It just helps you g..."
"If you want to do something manually, do it with Codex. Codex is actually more like a principal engineer, but who doesn't — unless you tell them exactly to do it — read Linear o..."
"I'm a product manager so I spend a lot of my day in Slack and I mostly talk to my dot in Slack. Your dot has its own identity in Slack, so it's available wherever you talk."
Peter Steinberger
1 pick · guest
"I built a little ESP device and it has display issues. So I glued my webcam to the display. Codex ran overnight and fixed the display driver."
Casey Neistat
1 pick · guest
"My favorite 35mm point and shoot is this Olympus. $150 when it came out. They stopped making it whatever 15 years ago. Every time I'd break one, I just buy it off eBay for 50 bu..."
Sam Altman
1 pick · guest
"I've mostly been using it for work and it is amazing for that. I feel like it has me back and the ability to like explore and do things and I love it for that. I really feel it ..."
Tibo Sottiaux
1 pick · guest
"We have them running on Mac Mini. We provision them exactly like employees — we mint a new little identity and then it's got IAM and the roles. We give them a very premium machi..."
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