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We kick off today with an interesting new feature announcement from OpenAI.

The company has shipped a new memory feature in Codex called Chronicle.

This is something that we've seen a couple times from a couple different companies, although

it's usually been surrounded by some amount of controversy, and in the case of

Microsoft, a withdrawal of the feature entirely. Chronicle uses screen captures to build a running

memory of your workflow. The feature runs as a background agent's taking screenshots and deciphering

them to build memory as you work. Now, OpenAI frame the feature as being a quality of life improvement

by improving Codex's understanding of your work. They write, with Chronicle, Codex can better understand what you mean by this or that, like an error on screen, a doc you have open, or that thing you were working on two weeks ago. Over time, it helps Codex learn how you work, the tools you use, the projects you return to, and the workflows you rely on. Now, they did warn that because Chronicle runs as a background agent, it will chew through usage limits. The screenshots also

carry some privacy and access concerns. All my old Bitcoin buddies are screaming at their screens

right now as I talk about this. Yet it's pretty clear that OpenAI is aiming this at professionals

who are working on secure systems with their company picking up the tab on usage. Apparently, the feature is impressed internally with President Greg Brockman writing

that it feels, quote, surprisingly magical to use, and Sam Altman saying, the internal working

name for this was telepathy, and it feels like it. Codex developer Tebow wrote,

This is early and consumes quite a bit of tokens, but it has changed how I and many folks

at OpenAI use Codex. Now, like I said, when these types of features were first announced, they were announced as general Windows-type features, as opposed to something very discreet for a specific type of builder in a specific use case, and maybe for people to balance on the value of that context changes how people will receive it. I've always sort of thought that this was one of those features,

that one group who is used to an old way of doing things will think is a complete privacy nightmare,

but in the future people will just assume is completely normal.

Staying on new features for a moment,

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