OpenAI shipped what you could call the

most controversial feature that you

could give any AI. ChatGPT can now be

Big Brother and look over your shoulder

as you work throughout your day so it

remembers everything. And up until now,

AI only remembered what you would tell

it. Now, it knows what you actually did.

And that, on the one hand, is extremely

powerful and I want to talk about that

and give this a spin. On the other hand,

also really scary. We'll talk about

that, too. So, let's start with the

facts, okay? This is a brand new feature

available in the ChatGPT desktop app and

this is probably the most limited

rollout that you could imagine. It's

only available in the desktop app on

Mac. Then, you need a pro, business, or

enterprise plan, okay? So, for

individuals, at least $100 a month to

access this. And then, it's also

unavailable in Europe, Switzerland, UK.

So, I'm on a Mac desktop computer here.

I'm on a pro plan and I VPN'd into the

US to access this. And then, if you go

into the settings here inside of the

ChatGPT desktop app right here. If I

click the settings right here, you will

see a new tab called computer history in

the integrations category. Let ChatGPT

follow your work. ChatGPT can summarize

your activity across the apps and

websites you use without ever recording

your screen or audio. Ask about what you

were working on, get help without

explaining everything again. And this is

the best part, actually. Or, discover

opportunities to automate repeated

tasks.

Ladies and gents, this is the missing

ingredient in AI today. It has become so

capable and so many users have become

extremely good at, you know, piecing

different systems together and tinkering

with it full-time and automating a part

of their life and their work, but it has

been extremely technical. And me, as a

teacher of these things, there's just

certain concepts that you can't even

communicate without getting into

terminals and vector databases and

multiple memory systems working

together. I'll elaborate on that a

little bit, but first let me show you

one example from the blog post, which I

think will communicate the power of this

really well, and it's this one. Reuse

workflows, okay? So without computer

history enabled, you would say something

like, "I just finished my video upload

workflow. Make a skill for next time."

And it would tell you, "Okay, please

share the steps and the decisions along

the way, and I can turn them into

something reusable." With this computer

history feature, "Created a video upload

skill from the steps in your recent

activity. You can review it before using

it again."

And not just that, because it records

everything on your computer, you can

then also ask which tasks that I did

could you automate the next time. Like,

so powerful, but also so scary because

all of a sudden ChatGPT app is watching

everything you do. So if you were scared

before of, you know, OpenAI taking your

data and your ideas, well, this is the

ultimate version of that. It literally

sees everything, and as per usual, I'll

be your scapegoat here, where, you know,

I'll go ahead and I'll turn this on, and

let's see what this allows us to do.

Okay, "You're in control. Sure. I can

pause, clear my history, and manage

which apps are included at any time.

Consider pausing or excluding sensitive

apps such as health or finance from your

history. You also agree that you'll

pause computer history during

communications with others, such as

video conferences or text messaging

apps, unless you have their prior

express consent." I mean, they just put

this here for legal reasons, but

basically this would be spying on every

conversations that you have with

everyone, including text messages,

social media that you use on your

desktop computer, and all Zoom calls.

Let's start with customize apps. Exclude

these apps. Okay, I'll exclude messages,

and I'll also exclude my OpenClaw agents

web hub. I mean, it's kind of tricky,

this default of exclude these, because

then you have to think of every single

thing that you want to exclude. I'm

going to go to include only these apps,

the finder, text edit, and then I guess

Chrome is going to be essential. And

then yeah, let's continue with this. So,

Google Chrome, text edit, and finder.

And there it is. That's the base setup.

So, no computer history yet. So, how

about this? Let's put this on one side

here and open a new Chrome window right

here. And let's just do some work. All

right, so just opening up Google Docs.

And what do we see here? Skysite session

start. You have no captured active work

on this 10-minute window. Segment only

recorded session start even. Okay, so

it's recording now. Let's just do

something simple. Let's say I am writing

up a document on community onboarding

redesign. That's something that we're

doing in the Advantage Club right now.

It's been a huge project. We use a bunch

of AI in the process and it's fresh on

my mind. So, I'll do this. Community

onboarding redesign. All right, that's a

good little list. And then let's say we

use AI in this process. How about that?

I'm literally going to open up a new

ChatGPT chat, copy this over, and I'm

going to say, "Okay, turn this into a

one-page project plan to share with the

team." Oops, and I haven't shared the

context. So, here it is. And now let me

replace the text with all of this. Hmm,

almost a page. All right, that's pretty

good. And now let's say we save this

document locally, right? Cuz we have the

finder. We go download PDF, have it

here. And what I'll do is I'll just

create a new folder on the desktop, say

project plan 8 14 26. Open the downloads

folder and move this in there. Also

rename this.

So, mind you, I'm not recording

anything, right? I'm just doing and

ChatGPT is listening. I guess it's not

listening. I guess it's watching. And

now maybe we could open Gmail. And then

I'll send this to the email I wish I

had, igor@gmail.com. Here is the plan.

The plan for you, brother, with our

clean email. Attach the project plan and

send this. And now let's give this a

shot. Let's just send a new chat ask,

"What have I done today?" And there it

is. An overview of what I did. Community

onboarding redesign, PDF learning plans

turned into one-pager, started working

on a website. These were some earlier

chats. Huh. Okay, so let's retry what we

saw in the blog post that I thought was

so impressive. I just finished my video

upload workflow, make a skill for next

time. Okay. I just finished the

onboarding design work. Create a skill

for next time. Whoa. And it adds all of

this context. Look, this is a literal

magic because it just has the recording

of what I did and it adds it. Now, I'm

concerned. This is too powerful. This is

too much of a leap. How will they be

able to like realize how strong this is?

I mean, yes, there's all these privacy

concerns. Yes, I already see the comment

section of people saying like, "Hell no,

I'm not doing that." Fair enough. I

understand. But also, just understand

the power of this. Like, AI's

capabilities are all about the context

you give it, okay? And I'm not saying

that just with prompts. Look at all

these harnesses around the most capable

agents. Like, basically, they prompt

themselves multiple times, right? That's

what thinking is, in order to get better

context to make the right decision. One,

they use skills, which are just packaged

prompts, so more context on the process

and on what you're doing. They use

connectors to bring context from other

places to themselves. And then they use

memories, which is basically just

getting context from the past, from a

vector database or whatever memory

system you might be using. It's all

about getting more context. And this is

like the ultimate version on context

from your life, because you're literally

doing these things. If it captures your

screen, if it sees you typing, if it

sees what apps you're going to, it

doesn't just have context on what you're

doing. It also has the sequence of

events. And that, dear ladies and

gentlemen, that I really want to

highlight as the big kind of outstanding

feature of this, you don't even have

that in all these agentic apps like RMS,

Open Claw, all of these frontier memory

layers, like they don't actually have

access to your working machine and see

it sequentially across time how your

work has been evolving. Look at that. It

created a skill called rough project

plan and turns rough notes into to-do's.

Okay, let's try and say "Extend the

skill with the steps I took after two."

Let's see if it can conjure that up. But

this is crazy. It's a crazy level of

access to your data and your life. And

it's also a crazy ability because this,

honestly, is the big missing piece in

making agentic AI easy for people. Like

a combination between this and Grok Bot

that came out earlier this week. By the

way, I created a great video on that. I

really thought that more people should

watch that. It's SpaceX AI's product

that looks just like a messaging

application, but you have multiple AI

employees in there and they can just

talk to each other and do things. It's

so simple. You can't even pick a model

or set custom instructions. It's just

simple. And a combination of that

interface that people just get cuz it's

like a messaging application and

something that records how you work

day-to-day. Well, boof. That's the

magical pairing because you do your work

and then there is some middle layer that

figures out which parts of your work you

could be handing off to agents. And then

you just talk to the agents like you

would to a coworker in a Slack channel

or a Messages chat or in WhatsApp,

whatever you use. Those are the two

user-friendly pieces. And honestly, like

these agents that were really hard to

set up and to maintain like Open Claw

and RMS, they got one piece right, which

is like the interaction layer and the

memories. But the big question for

everybody always was, "What do I even do

with this?" And the answer is like,

"Yeah, if you gave it access to your

main workstation and it watched you for

a week, it could figure those things out

on its own." That was never a point of

discussion cuz it's like those systems

are completely open and crazy and that

makes me want to talk about security for

a second with this because what look at

that fair enough it didn't even see that

I went into Gmail so you know maybe room

for improvement maybe I missed something

but let me tell you about security with

these things so with open cloud the way

I've been approaching it is you know

separate Mac Mini and it just doesn't

have a single one of my real accounts it

has its own email account it has its own

Google workspace account it has its own

notion account it has its own API keys

it's completely sandboxed it doesn't

touch any of my day-to-day workflows

that's why I feel pretty good about

experimenting with it this is the polar

opposite so I guess the key to you know

keeping this even like remotely secure

is really scoping this in terms of what

apps it can access so you know already

giving it access to Google Chrome is

wild cuz Google Chrome is like I don't

know half my life in it and if you

haven't asked yourself this question yet

it's probably really time to draw a line

in the sand and say okay like what

information am I okay with sharing with

these the companies and what am I not

willing to share but as you can tell I'm

pretty excited about this I think this

feature is absolutely massive I want to

try one more thing before I let you go

here and that is which one of the tasks

I did today could I automate turning on

burning dogs into project plan highly

automatable QA for PDF learning plan

delivery highly automatable it's even

looking into the to-do list that it saw

within the document oh my god are you

seeing this like it's literally

considering the bullets that I kind of

put in here in the beginning because it

saw that there is some work that I have

on my desk right now checked what

documents you worked on highly

automatable put on focus music to lock

in here that's also highly automatable

yeah QA for recommendation engine

partial okay and building refining

courses is low in automation fair enough

so are you getting this this is not just

the things you do this is also the

things within the documents that you're

working on so if you just like reading

emails it's going to consider everything

in every email if you just scroll over a

document, it's going to get all pages,

pull that into the context, and if you

ask something like, "Hey, what can I

automate?" It's really going to tell

you. So, this is probably the best, you

know, automation audit tool on the

market right now. Like, insanely useful.

I mean, this is going to spawn a huge

discussion on the internet around, you

know, safety boundaries. And just as a

reminder, the last time somebody tried

to track everything you do on your

computer with Microsoft Recall, they got

like the biggest backlash ever. They

were like, "Are you crazy, Microsoft?

I'm not going to give you all of my

information on what I'm doing." And

they're like, "All right, all right."

I guess if Open AI is doing it, it's

cool. I don't know. We shall see. This

is a bold feature that they're only

releasing because the competition is

heating up and they want to

differentiate themselves. I mean, this

has to be a reaction to the Grok bot

thing from Elon, cuz honestly, Grok bot

is like two to three features away from

being just a better consumer experience

than ChatGPT and Codex combined. It's

just simpler. It's just intuitive. Talk

to your agents. Again, check out that

video. I'm a real believer in that

interface, okay? But this is a whole

different beast. And that's today's

video. That's what I wanted to show you.

As per usual in these Friday videos, I

also highlight some stories that were on

my radar. I just want to do that quickly

because Open AI showed off a new version

of GPT 5.6 Soul, which they call ultra

fast, which is up to 14 times faster.

So, you know, could be reading all of

your context and at 14 times speed, you

could be getting things done. Okay, it's

going to be impressive. They're

releasing that through the API for

mainly coding, customer support, and

things like that. Oh, and then I should

also note that this application ChatGPT

desktop is now available across Linux,

Windows, and Mac. So, they added Linux

support, which is nice cuz people can

run this on their virtual machines

really easily. But this feature right

here that I showed you, again, the

computer history is Mac only. I'm just

going to turn it off for now. I need to

sleep over this and make up my mind if I

want to be using this and how I want to

use this. But yeah, I think those are

the big releases. This is a milestone. I

can't understate that. And finally, I'm

going to say you have to realize that

the timing of Microsoft's release with

recall was way before we could do a lot

of these agentic things. I mean, this is

the year of agents. In human history, we

will look back and say, "Hey, 2026,

that's when the new Opus models came out

and that's really what made projects

like Openclaw and then Hermes and Claude

code and Codex and co-work and now

ChatGPT work really function. It's the

increase in intelligence in the models

that made this work. We had projects

like this before, but these new models,

they make it work. But up until now,

most people weren't able to gather the

context to have it be useful for them.

With things like computer history to

gather the context and things like

Grokbot to then manage the agents while

they're working on things, that changes.

My prediction is going to be that before

the end of the year, you're going to see

all of these big AI companies compete

for these two features. One, computer

history and agentic interface that is

just multiple chats like you have in

messages because that's what we know,

that's what we love, that's what we're

used already on a day-to-day basis. And

then computer history is going to be the

thing that's going to solve the what are

the use cases that are relevant to me

issue that most people face. All right,

that being said, my name is Igor Pogany

and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Stay safe.

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