B.T. Franklin
@btfranklin.bsky.social
software engineer // genAI coder // computational creativity researcher // futurist // world traveler
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OpenAI aren't talking about it yet, but it turns out they've adopted Anthropic's brilliant "skills" mechanism in a big way
Skills are now live in both ChatGPT and their Codex CLI tool, I wrote up some detailed notes on how they work so far here: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
Skills are now live in both ChatGPT and their Codex CLI tool, I wrote up some detailed notes on how they work so far here: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
simonwillison.net
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
OpenAI aren't talking about it yet, but it turns out they've adopted Anthropic's brilliant "skills" mechanism in a big way
Skills are now live in both ChatGPT and their Codex CLI tool, I wrote up some detailed notes on how they work so far here: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
Skills are now live in both ChatGPT and their Codex CLI tool, I wrote up some detailed notes on how they work so far here: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
Possibly medium-temperature post: I'm a child of the 80's. There are certain films that were "core" to that identity. One of those was Flashdance, which I had never actually seen. We've all seen clips. We've all seen "Maniac".
So I finally watched it. It's bad. It's terrible. Not a good film.
So I finally watched it. It's bad. It's terrible. Not a good film.
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Possibly medium-temperature post: I'm a child of the 80's. There are certain films that were "core" to that identity. One of those was Flashdance, which I had never actually seen. We've all seen clips. We've all seen "Maniac".
So I finally watched it. It's bad. It's terrible. Not a good film.
So I finally watched it. It's bad. It's terrible. Not a good film.
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A series of Opus 4 self-portraits, from a conversation with itself
September 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A series of Opus 4 self-portraits, from a conversation with itself