I Test A Lot Of AI Coding Tools, And This Stunning New OpenAI Release Just Saved Me Days Of Work
ZDNET, Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
It took ChatGPT Deep Research minutes to reverse-engineer my full GitHub repo, when I'd need days. Here's why this is a big deal.
Last week, OpenAI quietly dropped a programming bombshell post on X/Twitter. It turns out you can now connect GitHub repos to Deep Research in ChatGPT. What makes this particularly interesting is that you can put ChatGPT Deep Research to work scanning that repo for all sorts of yummy nuggets of information.
GitHub is an online resource owned by Microsoft that holds an enormous number of programming projects, both open source and proprietary. It's used by teams to coordinate and track development. A GitHub repo is a repository for a given project. What Deep Research can now do is dig through the full source code for an entire software project and provide value.