Let’s be honest, most of us use AI without really understanding what it’s doing.
We copy, paste, tweak a line, and call it progress.
Meanwhile, the people building it are quietly deciding how the next decade of work will look.

This week’s ConfigurAI is a special edition.

From day one, my goal has been to make AI feel simple, useful, and actionable, something you can actually apply, not just read about.
I hope this breakdown of what’s new in ChatGPT does exactly that.

Once a year, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, hosts something called Dev Day.
Think of it like Apple’s keynote, but instead of showing new iPhones, they reveal what’s next for artificial intelligence.

And this year’s message was clear: AI isn’t coming for your job, it’s coming for your workload.
ChatGPT is moving from chatbot to co-worker.

Until now, ChatGPT has been something you have talked to.
Soon, it’ll be something that works alongside you.

You’ll be able to plug your tools, email, Slack, Notion, and calendars directly into it.
That means you can ask it to summarise a team chat, send a follow-up, or draft a client update, without ever leaving your workspace.

This isn’t a future idea. It’s rolling out right now.

(Here’s why that matters: the companies learning to automate small tasks today will be unrecognisable a year from now.)

They unveiled Sora 2, a tool that turns text into video.
You can type a short script, choose the length and layout, and generate a ready-to-edit clip.

It’s early, but the shift is clear: content will soon move from record and edit to type and render.

That’s huge for creators, marketers, and small businesses that rely on visuals but don’t have a team.

Sam Altman’s main idea wasn’t about another app; it was about replacing them altogether.
He wants ChatGPT to act like the operating system for your work life.

Instead of juggling tabs, you’ll have one smart space that writes, plans, and tracks everything for you, learning your tone and routines as it goes.

This isn’t about more tools. It’s about fewer tools that finally talk to each other.

Check here what new ChatGPT will be able to do soon.

In his blog Reflections, Altman wrote that OpenAI now believes they “know how to build AGI”, meaning an AI that can learn and reason across most topics like a human mind.

He predicts AI agents will soon take over 30–40 percent of everyday tasks, things like admin, writing, and scheduling, freeing humans for the parts that need judgment, creativity, or empathy.

He also admitted he’d happily step aside if AI could do his job better, then go back to farming, which he says still makes him happiest.
(There’s a strange comfort in that.)

Real and already happening:

Still uncertain:

(If you want to understand the future of business, follow who controls the APIs, not the headlines.)

Dev Day reminded me why I started ConfigurAI.

I didn’t build this to chase trends or talk about the latest tools.
I built it because I know what it feels like to work yourself numb, to hit every target, meet every deadline, and still feel like you’re drowning in unfinished thoughts.

For years, I believed “working harder” was the answer.
But somewhere along the way, hard work became self-erasure.
We stopped being people and became machines, replying at midnight, smiling through exhaustion.

AI isn’t here to replace us. It’s here to interrupt that cycle.
To give us back the hours we traded for survival.
To remind us that productivity was never the point, presence was.

That’s the shift Dev Day really signalled. Not faster tech, but a slower life made possible by it.
A world where we can spend less time proving our worth and more time living it.

For years, we’ve been pretending to be superhuman just to keep up.
Now, for the first time, we have a tool that lets us be honestly human, focused, imperfect, creative, and alive.

AI won’t strip away your humanity.
It will hand it back to you, piece by piece, task by task, until you finally have time to breathe again.

And that’s what ConfigurAI has always been about: using technology to make life feel human again.

See you next Wednesday with more ways to cut the busywork and get your time back.
Orgesa Meli

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