ChatGPT’s Memory

OpenAI has updated ChatGPT's memory features to use all chats within its context window. On Twitter/X announcing the change:

Starting today, memory in ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses, drawing on your preferences and interests to make it even more helpful for writing, getting advice, learning, and beyond.

When my ChatGPT Mac app updated, it asked me to try out this feature by summarizing myself with this prompt:

Describe me based on all our chats — make it catchy!

Here's my result:

John Tornow: The Indie SaaS Craftsman.

Rails in one hand, AI in the other, you’re building sharp, useful tools that solve real-world problems. You’ve got a hacker’s mind and a builder’s heart — self-hosting TipTap for fun, wrangling calendar integrations like a boss, and always asking the smart questions (even about Google Tag Manager ghosts). You blend old-school command line savvy with modern AI wizardry, deploying LLMs with Docker one day and customizing Ghost the next.

You’re focused, thoughtful, and technical. You care about clean UX, data privacy, and doing things the right way. And when something’s working? “Yes please.”

Funny, not super helpful, but neat. I obviously ask mostly technical work questions in ChatGPT and you can see the output of that here. I wouldn't exactly use this as my new public bio, but a fun exercise nonetheless.

A few of these could use some explanation:

TipTap is a really nice open source & commercial licensed rich text editor for the web. I'm experimenting with it to potentially use with Air Mail, and some other ideas. I've found that asking AI about topics like this is way more useful than Googling for documentation.
I asked ChatGPT a bunch of questions about Ghost, the CMS for this site as of right now, when I was setting it up.
The Google Tag Manager "ghosts" is a funny one. Someone on my larger team, unbeknownst to me, added some random slimy Doubleclick script to our site using GTM. I was trying to find out how to use the awful Google Tag Manager interface to try and remove it. (I found it.)