Kyle Patel

Building Plugins @OpenAI. Thoughts on AI UX, agents, tools, and making complex products feel simple. Prev @Wise

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@TaeyeonUchiha @ebloch I appreciate that, we definitely care about user trust! And want to hear more on how we can solidify it.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

For those who have been asking. Your wish is a reality. Finances now in the desktop app!

Congrats @ebloch and the team! Huge!

[Ethan Bloch @ebloch]

It's finally here!

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@thsottiaux Great work @mxstbr and team on building for all! Also, great screenshot.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@alexwhotweets Finally, I’m so tired of failing to find all the fire hydrants

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

Happy Diwali! 🪔

Make sure to light candles today to chase away bad spirits, negativity, and honeypot spies.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@johnHarry1018 Great tweet.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@heyjessharris It’s great that you can supplement with AI without letting it take over. I do think there’s still a need for a ‘voice’, but letting AI help critique and plan is game changing.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

I'm reading more AI-written docs and messages than ever. A lot of them are hard to get through.

My advice has been: if you don't want to read it yourself, don't ask someone else to.

But then I read my own writing and realize it isn't always at the quality I'd like either.

So I'm trying to improve. Writing things myself still feels important.

What’s actually helped you become a better writer?

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@TaeyeonUchiha I agree, it definitely helps my writing. But it can also make it feel too generic. Definitely a balance is good.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@Awesome_Leonid @david_perell Wil check it out!

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@akothari Amazing, can't wait to use it.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@SIGKITTEN C tomorrow or reset

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@hemal Congrats! Super exciting! Just enjoy it, you’ll get tonnes of advice on how to do this and that and what to worry about. But it’s such a fun time, make sure you take the moment to live it!

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@clairevo @OpenAI Can you talk more to the connector experience? Would love to hear top issues for you.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@_catwu Amazing! Welcome to the team!

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

It’s also very cool we’re still using git and pushing fixes upstream. Agentic workflows are pushing the limits of what are our systems can do, but sharing those wins is so important.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

Since this was turned on, I forgot all about it.

That’s a compliment.

Before; I was raging at git every day, fetching slow, pushing aggravating, merging impossible.

After; fetching never a problem, agents pushing all the time, merging simple. And I didn’t have to change my workflow.

It’s been so good, I forgot all about it.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

We built Pando, a new Git backend for our monorepo, to handle more pushes and fetches without changing how our engineers and agents use Git.

Pando cut push latency by ~80% and now serves nearly a petabyte of Git data a day. We can grow Git capacity alongside agent usage.

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

@fofrAI Artisanal coding is a vibe

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

The taste argument only exists in the tech bubble.

The rest of the world doesn't talk about whether taste is dead. They just want products that are simple, frictionless, and do the job.

And even when bots do the clicking, someone still has to design what they see, what they ask you to approve, and what they show you after.

Taste isn't going anywhere. It's just getting more users.

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

it’s unclear how much longer taste is going to matter

[Kyle Patel @KyleSPatel]

For years, accessibility was an afterthought for most teams.

Now it's more important than ever. Agents read your app the same way a screen reader does.

Web apps have always treated it as a secondary thing. Electron apps should think the hardest about this, since they're web UIs dressed up as desktop apps.

Apps agents can navigate will win. The rest get left behind.

Honestly, it's exciting. Even if teams come for the agents and not for accessibility itself, the people who rely on screen readers win too.

[Lahfir ▲ @mdlahfir]

Introducing agent-desktop

Computer use for your agents

▲ E2E test desktop apps with agents
▲ Reads apps via the accessibility tree
▲ Drills into part of a window to save tokens
▲ Runs many agents on one app at once
▲ Works on macOS, Windows & Linux

npm i -g agent-desktop