"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

—Elbert Hubbard, Writer & Philosopher

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent: A New Era of Task Automation

OpenAI’s latest release marks a significant shift in how artificial intelligence operates—not by expanding what it knows, but by extending what it can do.

The company’s updated ChatGPT agent introduces a unified “agentic” system that allows the model to complete real-world tasks on behalf of the user using a virtual computer.

That includes navigating websites, running code, manipulating files, and even interacting with apps like Gmail or Google Calendar. The result is a system that blends AI reasoning with real-time execution, offering a new kind of automation that feels closer to delegation than dialogue.

A Smarter Stack, All in One Place

This new release combines OpenAI’s previous tools—Operator and Deep Research—into a single system. ChatGPT Agent can now browse the web visually, scrape text when needed, run code, access APIs, and manage files. All from one chat.

If it hits a login wall, it asks you to take over. If it needs to run a calculation, it spins up a virtual terminal. You stay in the loop, but the grunt work is off your plate.

Capable, But Still Clunky

Despite its power, the Agent still trips up. In demos, it once took an hour to order cupcakes. Another time, it plotted a baseball stadium tour with a stop in the middle of the ocean.

The upside is that it asks before taking major actions. You control logins, purchases, and sensitive moves. That makes it safer, but also less autonomous. You still need to supervise.

Risks and Revenue Questions

Giving AI access to browsers, terminals, and files raises security flags. OpenAI baked in protections, like requiring user approval for real-world actions and rejecting high-risk prompts. But it’s still vulnerable to trickery, like malicious text hiding in web pages.

Also, while OpenAI says there are no sponsored results, it’s hard to ignore the business potential. A tool that books, buys, and recommends is one small step away from selling, so dealers will want to keep an eye on that space.

The Bottom Line

While the agent offers meaningful improvements in what AI can do on a user’s behalf, it is still early-stage technology. For now, think of it as a co-pilot. Not an autopilot.

Ever stitched together five CRMs, a DMS, and a scheduling tool, and then had the audacity to call it a process?

Thuy Adomitis calls that the “Franken-system,” and she’s here to dismantle it with the help of her team at Mia Labs.

In this Auto Collabs episode, Thuy unpacks how AI is now fielding sales calls, booking service, checking parts—basically handling the chaos so humans can focus on the moments that matter.

Check out the replay here.

As smart as chatbots have gotten, they’re still only as sharp as the prompt you feed them. Sometimes, the key to a better answer is just asking a better question.

That’s where a new tool called PrompTessor comes in. We gave it this prompt to test:

Sadly, it gave this prompt a score of 65/100 (womp womp). But it also surfaced some strengths and a few useful ways to improve. Learning from this kind of feedback across multiple prompts could absolutely level up how you work with AI.

PrompTessor then offered a more “optimized” version of the prompt (though it was rather underwhelming tbh). Still, the breakdown of why and how to improve each prompt is where the real-deal help lies.

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