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High Taste Testers: OpenAI Shipped Everything. What Actually Works?

High Taste Testers: OpenAI Shipped Everything. What Actually Works?

A roundtable of AI power users reviews OpenAI DevDay and asks what actually works in daily use. Topics include personal assistants and their trust, permission, and safety trade-offs; durable agent state and remote execution; the Jev decision model and calibrated classification; model preferences across Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and open models; subagents and context management; and the gap between impressive capabilities and products that hold up.

From 36% to 100%: How Self-Improving Agents Write Their Own Skills — Rafal Wilinski, Runlayer

From 36% to 100%: How Self-Improving Agents Write Their Own Skills — Rafal Wilinski, Runlayer

Rafal Wilinski of Runlayer argues that when one agent solves a hard problem, that knowledge should become a skill shared across the whole company. He covers why skills matter more as agents run longer, three problems with current skills, using MCP as a governed distribution layer, distilling skills from successful and failed agent traces inspired by the Voyager paper, and the organizational flywheel as a durable competitive advantage.