OpenAI ❤️ Devs

good morning, afternoon, and evening. Welcome back to your daily dose of all things products, shipping, and building. In today's digest, we're taking our magnifying glasses to OpenAI's new dev-friendly release, a tool that helps you write a ton faster than typing, and a language-learning product that is actually useful.

OpenAI's Responses API and Agents SDK give developers a new set of tools to build AI agents that can actually do things. The Responses API lets AI pull in outside info like web searches and file retrievals, while the Agents SDK helps manage workflows between multiple AI-powered agents.

🔥 Our take: OpenAI isn’t just making chatbots anymore. This is about giving developers the power to build agents that can go fetch data, take action, and maybe even replace some of those boring, repetitive tasks we all pretend are “deep work.” If it delivers, AI won’t just be answering questions, it will be handling errands.

Wispr Flow for Windows is a voice-powered dictation tool that lets you type by talking. It works across apps, handling punctuation and formatting in real time to make speech-to-text feel more natural. The goal? Faster writing without the keyboard slowing you down.

🔥 Our take: Some people think best when they write. Others think best when they talk. Then there is the group that talks while they write, pausing every few words like they are narrating their own life. Wispr Flow is built for them. Instead of fighting the keyboard, they can let their thoughts spill out naturally. Whether that makes for better writing or just faster rambling—well, that is up to the user.

Fluently is an AI-powered language coach that listens in on your calls and helps non-native speakers sharpen their English in real time. It flags pronunciation slip-ups, awkward phrasing, and grammar mistakes, then turns them into personalized exercises like having a language tutor quietly taking notes on your Zoom call.

🔥 Our take: Duolingo will teach you how to say the cat drinks milk but it won’t help when you’re trying to sound professional in a meeting. Fluently jumps straight into the deep end, focusing on real conversations instead of textbook phrases. If you’ve ever smiled and nodded through half a call because your brain couldn’t find the right words fast enough, this might actually help.

UPCOMING - AMA with Wispr Flow CEO on making your launch go viral

AI and no-code tools mean anyone can build something in minutes, so Alex, founder of Questflow, kicked off a debate: Does software still hold value, or is the real challenge everything that comes after?

Some takes from the discussion:

💬 Nika: If an app takes ten minutes to build instead of months, of course, it’s worth less. But now the real cost is in marketing, customer support, and actually getting people to use it.

💬 Alan Rivera: No-code tools are great, but they’re not free. You’re swapping dev costs for a bunch of SaaS subscriptions that add up fast. Cheap at first, but not as cheap as it looks.

💬 Hussein: “SaaS tools feel like magic at first, then you check your billing statement and realize you’re basically funding their Series A.”

So, is software turning into a commodity, or is building just the easy part now?