at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack.
people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by that coworker.
reinforces how much people care about human relationships and helping each other, and want AI to give time back — or enhance time together — rather than become a layer separating people.
— Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder, OpenAI
source & further reading
simonwillison.net — original article
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison