Blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-cha... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866860)

The “cute” icons / avatars on the Agents make it seem less business-oriented IMO.

Theyre killing it!

Interesting that Fin (the spinoff from Intercom) is promoting a different approach on the same day: one agent, one job: https://x.com/eoghan/status/2046974515859595568

Excited for OpenClaw to email Workspace Agents.

Anecdote time. I had a fun little interaction with my boss's boss the other day. He has limited exposure to AI as tech goes, but speaks with confidence of someone, who has seen it all ( and made it sound like this is the view of tech execs -- you tell me ). Anyway, his claim was 'tech is already good enough; if you can't hack it with it, you are on your way out'.

In our own company, our tooling has mostly sucked ( after a period of being decent ). Any suggestion of better ( in this case more expensive models ) is rebuffed as both cost saving measure and efficiency. We are basically told to work not only with corporate handicapped versions of those models, but also ones, where company can save a buck and pretend it is going well.

Its not gonna end well, but, because it was clearly not a technical conversation, I smiled and nodded.

edit: In case you are wondering why it is relevant. OpenAI can do all sorts of fun things, but it is largely pointless if corps are not using it to its potential. And they don't.