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OpenAI ditches GitHub
Plus, 💻 OpenAI built a framework to measure how AI actually affects learning, Turn a screen recording into a marketing video, and more
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Welcome back to The Shift. Let’s get straight to what matters in AI today…
Today we have:
🔧 OpenAI is building its own code platform
📽️ Turn a screen recording into a marketing video
🎓 OpenAI built a framework to measure how AI actually affects learning
🔧 OpenAI Is Building Its Own Code Platform to Replace GitHub
OpenAI is reportedly developing an internal code repository to move off Microsoft's GitHub. The move adds fresh tension to an already complicated relationship with its biggest financial backer.
GitHub Outages Triggered the Decision: Repeated outages linked to GitHub's ongoing Azure infrastructure migration frustrated OpenAI engineers. GitHub's CTO told staff the full migration would take two years, with several dev teams pulling off other work to support it.
OpenAI May Open It to Outside Developers: Internal staff have discussed making the platform available to paying customers and pairing it with Codex coding agents. That would turn it from an internal tool into a direct GitHub competitor bundled with AI-native development features.
Microsoft in an Awkward Spot: Microsoft funds OpenAI while owning GitHub, where 100M+ developers store their code. OpenAI is now encroaching on yet another piece of Microsoft's core developer infrastructure, alongside earlier moves into Office-like productivity tools.
What to Watch: If OpenAI ships this externally with Codex integration, it creates a vertically integrated AI coding environment that could pull developers away from GitHub. For now, it's an internal project, but the customer-facing ambition signals where OpenAI sees its next revenue opportunity.
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💻Turn a Screen Recording Into a Marketing Video
Most demo videos look like raw screen captures with a logo slapped on. Kite fixes that without hiring an editor.
Anyone who needs to show a product, tool, or app on screen and wants it to look intentional rather than thrown together.
How it works:
Record your screen normally
Kite tracks your cursor and inputs automatically
Wraps the footage in a 3D device mockup (laptop, phone, etc.)
Camera auto-zooms on whatever you're clicking in real time
Add animated text callouts in two clicks
Layer in an AI voiceover or music
Export up to 4K, sized for your platform
You have something to show. Instead of posting a flat screen recording, you post something that looks like it had a production team behind it. Same content, completely different perception.
It's a post-production layer built specifically for on-screen demos. No editing software. No contractor. No three-day turnaround. You can try it here.
🎓 OpenAI Built a Framework to Measure How AI Actually Affects Learning Over Time
OpenAI, Stanford's SCALE Initiative, and the University of Tartu developed a new measurement system for tracking how AI shapes learning outcomes. Most current research only looks at test scores. This goes deeper.
Test Scores Alone Don't Tell the Story: An early study with 300+ college students showed ~15% higher exam scores in microeconomics when using AI study mode. But results varied by subject, and short-term gains don't reveal whether learning habits actually improve over time.
The New Suite Tracks Five Learning Capabilities: Beyond scores, the framework measures autonomous motivation, productive engagement, task persistence, metacognition, and recall. It tracks how individual learners interact with AI over time, not just how they perform on a single exam.
Validation is Underway at Scale: Nearly 20,000 students aged 16-18 in Estonia are part of an ongoing study spanning several months. OpenAI's Learning Lab partners, including ASU, MIT Media Lab, and UCL, are running additional research.
Why This Matters: If you work in edtech or institutional learning, this is worth watching. A standardized, open framework for measuring AI's impact on learning could shape how schools and governments evaluate and adopt AI tools. OpenAI plans to release it publicly.
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🔨AI Tools for the Shift
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🧩 Prompt of the Day
Proactive Customer Support Strategy
Turn reactive support into a prevention system by identifying issues early and reaching customers before they experience problems.
Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then fill in your product, common issues, and available support resources.
Prompt to paste
Create a proactive customer support strategy for [Insert product, service, or platform]. Include:
Common Issues Identified: List the most frequent customer problems, questions, or friction points that typically arise during onboarding, usage, or after purchase.
Support Resources: Outline the help center articles, guides, tutorials, FAQs, walkthrough videos, or documentation that should be created or highlighted to solve these issues.
Outreach Tactics: Describe how support will proactively reach customers before problems occur. Include tactics such as onboarding emails, in-app tooltips, proactive chat prompts, SMS alerts, usage-based triggers, or follow-up messages.
Use Case: Focus on how this strategy helps prevent issues before they arise, reduces support tickets, improves customer satisfaction, and strengthens long-term retention.
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