The OpenAI Dev Day brought a wave of exciting announcements. I am not going to attempt a deep analysis here, but the news is clearly good for developers—and could knock several startups off balance as these possibilities mature. I have started exploring a few of them myself… spoiler alert?
At first I considered the new “GPTs” feature the least important part—why bother, it is just an extra opening prompt, right? Then I caught myself building GPTs too. In practice, I was using a low-code, even Software 2.0 platform, where I created an application through conversation that could:
- Identify the questioner’s language and infer a likely location from it when no other information is available.
- Interpret a question written in free-form text.
- Query the weather automatically from several online sources in the background.
- Summarise the result and present it with a little humour.
How would I have built something like this a year earlier in five minutes? I would not have. It would probably have taken five days—or several weeks. The interesting leap is not merely that GPTs can be created from a prompt. Their tuning, naming and avatar design can also happen conversationally, with the interface helping throughout the editing and refinement process.
Some of the GPTs I created are available only to ChatGPT Plus subscribers:
- Lord Weatherby would happily talk about the weather all day. It answers in the questioner’s language, adapts location and units accordingly, and checks several sites when asked about the forecast. It also has a distinctive English sense of humour.
- Captain Data Beard is a sharp old fox and a veteran of the data seas. It even draws charts as though they were old maps 😀
- Queen of Hearts takes inspiration from Alice in Wonderland.
- Santa Claus tells kind stories for children while quietly helping parents too: no letter required, it extracts the useful details itself :)
There may already be a GPT Store—it was my next idea too—but I still miss a proper rating feature.
Update: a few more GPTs:
- Captain Action helps create Actions for GPTs.
- GPT Shop Keeper searches for and recommends other GPTs for a given task.
- Word Whisperer translates with alternatives and explanations.
There is also an interesting and useful repository containing leaked prompts for popular GPTs: https://github.com/linexjlin/GPTs
