Tooling54d ago
Microsoft open-sources Skill Recorder: record a desktop workflow once, Copilot CLI rebuilds a reusable Skill/Automation
Community coverage notes Microsoft open-sourced Skill Recorder (github.com/microsoft/skill-recorder, ~3.9k stars). After a local screen/activity capture, GitHub Copilot CLI reconstructs an intent plus ordered steps, then builds a SKILL.md Skill or schedulable Automation for Microsoft Scout, Copilot Cowork, and Copilot Studio—preferring native agent tools (gh, web_fetch) over click replay.
Tooling20d ago
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra and 6.1 Sol for software maintenance — 1,400+ cleanup PRs and 800k+ lines removed
An OpenAI developers blog shows how Core Experimentation uses Codex with GPT-6 Astra to clean dead code and stale Statsig experiments—evidence from Slack, telemetry and flags into small draft PRs. Official: 1,400+ maintenance PRs and 800k+ lines deleted over ~two part-time weeks. GPT-6.1 Sol Ultra reached ~92% of Astra Ultra’s accepted findings at ~14% API cost (vendor-reported).
Models17d ago
OpenAI Solves Legacy Software Migration: MultiLangBench Lifts COBOL Pass Rate to 97.9%, Modernizing Enterprise Stacks
OpenAI officially announced breakthroughs in building and migrating software written in low-resource and legacy languages (COBOL, Fortran, Visual Basic, OCaml), introducing the MultiLangBench evaluation suite. Tackling the trillions of dollars in critical banking and enterprise mainframe infrastructure, the benchmark challenges models to synthesize a SQLite-compatible database engine across 20 distinct languages. GPT-6 Astra boosted average test pass rates from 26.8% to 87.4%, with COBOL soaring from 10.9% to 72.1%. In enterprise COBOL migration tasks, GPT-6.1 Sol achieved a 97.9% success rate while cutting inference costs by 39%.
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