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Steven Heidel
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API @OpenAI | 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
congrats to Anthropic on the release of Claude Opus 4.5!
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
congrats to google on the launch of gemini 3!
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
setting "prompt_cache_retention" to "24h" in the Responses API can lead to significant cost and latency improvements in gpt-5.1, since prompts will be cached much longer than the normal 5-10 minutes
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
developers didn't have to wait long - gpt-5.1 is now available in the API! openai.com/index/gpt-5-...
Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API, bringing faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools.
openai.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’m hiring for the API Frontiers team at OpenAI! We take the latest breakthroughs from research and turn them into developer products - designing APIs that feel natural, powerful, and scale to billions of users.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
gpt-5.1 is now available in ChatGPT! smarter, faster, and with more options to customize its personality - because sometimes you don't need to be told that every question is a great question
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
exciting to see my current and former employers working together to scale AI compute!
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
just made a donation to the Python Software Foundation. groups like the PSF should not be forced to add/remove unrelated policies in order to receive scientific grants.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
seems like a good day to remind everyone of the temporary chat button in ChatGPT, which will disable memory and remove the conversation from your history
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
another successful DevDay in the books. thanks to everyone who attended and also to our incredible events team - it was our biggest one yet!
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
between the Apps SDK, Codex SDK, and AgentKit - how many startups did OpenAI just create today?
October 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
ChatGPT, the everything app
October 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
it’s difficult to overstate how important Codex has been to our team’s ability to ship new products. for example: the drag and drop agent builder we launched today was built end to end in under 6 weeks, thanks to Codex writing 80% of the PRs
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
want more users? how does 800M users sound?
build and distribute your apps within ChatGPT with the new Apps SDK
October 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sam’s DevDay keynote starts in 15 minutes! what do you think he’s going to announce? 👀
October 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
looking forward to DevDay today! send me a message if you're there and want to meet up - DMs are open
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
want to sell your products directly to ChatGPT users? try out the new Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) developers.openai.com/commerce
Agentic Commerce
Design flows for embedded commerce in ChatGPT.
developers.openai.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
just popped a bunch of tylenol so i can understand LLMs better
September 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i was privileged to become american thanks to the h-1b visa. the program has its flaws, but adding a $100k "bribe" (which can be arbitrarily waived if you please the right people) is not the answer
September 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
first they came for the immigrants, then they came for the comedians - but it’s fine since i’m not any of those things
September 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ChatGPT now fully supports MCP tools, including write actions! just turn on the new "developer mode" in the settings
September 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
the Realtime API has gained support for MCP, plus a better model, new voices, and SIP phone calling
August 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🆕 you can now connect Responses API to more sources, like Gmail and Google Calendar!
August 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM