Hi Community!
ChatGPT Pulse has been out for a while now—let’s talk about what it’s actually doing for us as developers.
Share your practical experiences: How has Pulse supported your coding, debugging, learning, or even just growth as a dev?
All developer-focused insights are welcome. Let’s keep it concrete and useful!
Looking forward to your examples!
Shout-out and thanks to @EricGT for the idea!
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 2, 2026
I know the list may be long, but honestly ChatGPT Pulse regularly finds items I am interested in that I may not find otherwise. Also I have been tweaking and curating ChatGPT Pulse for a few weeks so it may seem like it just works; it does take some effort, like prompt engineering, but worth the effort.
utm_source=chatgpt.comUI hooks: In your Cytoscape view, surface these four properties as live checkboxes/badges per graph; when all four light up, enable “Export Cayley table,” then run your existing property tests. (Nice fit for your messageBus + property panels.)
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 4, 2026
Some days I read ChatGPT Pulse before it sends me an email.
but then find that it may still be adding some entries later, so now just wait for such a message.
Today landed with a thud; a Sunday after most in the world probably took off the entire week.
Found this using my legacy means, it was the most interesting item of the day.
Currently doing my usual morning current events reading.
This paper popped up on one of the list, curious to see if ChatGPT Pulse adds it today or maybe later this week to one of the weekly repeating sections. If not will have to curate ChatGPT Pulse to find such.
“Quantifier Elimination Meets Treewidth” (PDF) by Hao Wu, Jiyu Zhu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Jie An, Bican Xia, and Naijun Zhan
Here is an image that ChatGPT Pulse made for Practical ways to cut Windows build time
Notice the little ninja figure.
The connection is
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 5, 2026
Today is Monday which means
Sorry to report that links for arxiv and GitHub in the section Fresh research roundup are resulting in 404; the title of many are not even close enough to find the items. So an entire section of 18 items of no value. Note: The invalid links are only happening in one section, the links in the other sections are working correctly, even for arxiv and GitHub.
This is a nice way to send feedback on OpenAI Codex for reporting an issue.
While there were other items of value, they were not related to programming.
Since I can not post more than 2 replies in a row will have to post this reply here.
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 6, 2026
Feature Proposal: Agent Continuity - Persistent Agents Across Session Boundaries
What is nice about ChatGPT Pulse is that there are 5K+ Issues for this GitHub repo, this one was opened 18 hours ago, and it was selected based on my interest such as avoiding chat session compaction and resuming without using tokens to figure out the current state.
The broader context here is that the AI ecosystem — from tools like Model Context Protocol (MCP) for context integration to community‑built plugins tackling session continuity — is converging on memory and continuity as first‑class design goals for multi‑agent systems.
Deprecating live editing of JavaScript sources in Chrome DevTools | Blog | Chrome for Developers
- I have used this from time to time and really liked it, glad I saw this to know it is coming instead of learning the hard way that it was removed and trying to fix what I might think is a bug or bad install when the option is gone.
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 7, 2026
One of my weekly updates included
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 8, 2026
Maybe the OpenAI Devs are reading this topic because today the links are correct, e.g.
This is nice
Don’t have to spend time reading old finds and don’t have to wonder if it forgot.
I’m super curious how others are using this feature, and whether they find it useful.
Thanks, all!
Trying something new, hourly updates.
When ChatGPT Pulse is open, you will see in the upper right a Curate button,
using that sent this prompt.
The Consumer Electronics Show is happening. There will be lots of announcements. Send me updates every hour and I will use the up/down thumbs to let you know how to adjust as needed.
ChatGPT replied
Just received this in my email
Yes it created a CES focused update.
Saw this earlier today with Google News, still nice to know ChatGPT Pulse also surfaced it for me.
Noted this to ChatGPT Pulse
For the next CES hourly update, can the bullet point items include a thumbs up/down so I can refine at that level. The first one for Nvidia gets a thumbs up, the rest are fine, and no thumbs down.
which responded with
Acknowledged.
Next CES hourly update format
/ 
selector for item-level feedback. Nvidia announcements (high priority)What this affects
feedback later.The next update will follow this format so you can adjust relevance at the bullet level.
One hour exactly after the first
Not what I was hoping, did not do the thumbs up/down the way I was hoping. 
Tried one more time to get ChatGPT Pulse to use some sort of clickable feedback for each item and failed.
Looked for a way to report this on OpenAI GitHub or OpenAI ChatGPT Pulse FAQ and found none. Will have to look further later.
Lego unveils Smart Play Bricks
This item linked to a paywall.
Would be nice if there were a way to ban paywall sites and have the AI search for the same information directly from the source, e.g. LEGO® SMART Play™ System
Yesterday ChatGPT Pulse stopped updating every hour after the 5th version. Really did not mind because it was surfacing nothing new and some of the earlier replies included sites that were doing regular updates
Looking at the Curate section see
Clicking it shows
Posting this here to avoid the more than two replies in a row limiation.
Now that CES is over, changing gears to something new
Using the curate feature
Quiz me daily on
* SWI-Prolog
* Prolog programming
* Lean 4 programming
* Lean 4 proofs
* Python programming
Also ask for more specific feedback than just using the thumbs up/down with card interactions. While effective thumbs up/down are not fine grained enough.
Is Pulse why I’m getting repeated ChatGPT emails to HUGE outputs such as this, “Accessibility checklist ready”?
Is Pulse available yet for Business plan issues?
That does not resemble any ChatGPT Pulse update I have seen. I do not see any external links.
ChatGPT Pulse updates typically begin with a notification banner at the top of the list, for example:
In your link this might be considered the banner at the top
but the long list looks more like a plan that has gone to an extreme.
All ChatGPT Pulse results I have seen are presented with the URL https://chatgpt.com/pulse, if you do not see that then it may not be ChatGPT Pulse. I have not seen the results presented via any other means, the notifications do come in via multiple means but those link back to the URL.
From the ChatGPT Pulse FAQ
If you have ChatGPT Pulse
then you can try it.
As for specific uses such as Business plan issues you will have curate it to your needs.
Please see the ChatGPT Pulse FAQ page for more details.
Thank you! Not sure what word I intended to end that sentence with, but it wasn’t “issues.” Isn’t autocorrect grand? (Oh, “users” was the word.)
It seems strange that an overnight batch system like Pulse isn’t being offered to Business customers.
(I manage my Team so if it’s something I have to turn on, I have the ability to do that.)
It might still be in beta release. From my use and what is noted by me, there are still rough edges, but for me the glass is half full.
Since I am not an OpenAI employee can only present what I know which is what the FAQ notes about only being available for Pro users and limited to certain means.
Totally understand, and thank you!
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 12, 2026
This problem is back. 
Many developers using AI tools seem to experience the same challenges at some point; I have encountered this myself with several different tools.
I would not normally spend time looking for this kind of information, but knowing it is a common issue makes the experience easier to accept.
This was a link to a site where I had to watch an ad only to see something I check regularly and do not have to wait for an advertisement and get it straight from the source.
the source of truth link is here and free
Might have to curate ChatGPT Pulse to return source of truth when possible.
The official MCP Registry has become a go‑to source for discovering actively updated MCP servers like the Appium MCP entry, which was refreshed on January 11, 2026 — great for finding vetted, interoperable tool endpoints that agents and IDE clients can plug into. You can explore this catalog directly and pull server metadata programmatically.
So used the link from ChatGPT Pulse to check on this.
Discourse the software this forum runs on, registered their Discourse MCP server with the registry.
Reading my ChatGPT Pulse update for January 13, 2026
Hit and miss today.
For following entry
6) Prompt‑to‑Patch Benchmark (GitHub)
Benchmark suite evaluating LLMs on generating minimal, review‑ready code patches instead of broad rewrites — useful for CI/CD integration and code review tooling.
https://github.com/prompttopatch/benchmark
Computer Science
Entire entry might be a hallucination.
Was hoping to find the thumbs up/down on individual entries but no luck. So wanted to give thumbs up via Card interactions and those too were missing.
Now that CES is over wanted to delete the CES task.
In took a minute to figure out that the “X” only closes the window, you need to use the trashcan.
Example of my first daily quiz question grading.
current_predicate/1 vs current_predicate/2Your answer (summary):
Assessment: Mostly correct, but incomplete
What’s correct
current_predicate/2 can consult the autoloader. Autoloader index verification is a real cost and can dominate runtime.What’s missing (the key pitfall)
Canonical pitfall phrasing
Using
current_predicate/2in analysis or tooling code can have observable side effects (autoloading), violating the expectation that introspection is pure.
Score: 7.5 / 10
Here is a nice ChatGPT Pulse feature hidden in plain sight.
Right under the title is a bookmark/save icon to save as chat.
Just found this on Hacker News, curious to see if ChatGPT Pulse includes this. If not will have to curate more.
January 21, 2026
Have not used ChatGPT Pulse today but did find this paper that ChatGPT Pulse should note based on two possible ways
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.11757
What is really interesting is that the paper notes
We also present an automated pipeline that leveraged OEIS-LT to formalize more than 25,000 OEIS sequence definitions and prove more than 1.6 million theorems.
Thank you for the reply. Definitely extreme and unnecessary. Updates and resend every week. Appreciate the incite and the thread. Will keep investigating.
Nothing, i’ve just switched to a GO account.
@RiavvioAS
I just double-checked availability, and it appears to be limited to Pro subscribers for now. Sorry about that. Hopefully more compute capacity comes online so this feature can be expanded more broadly.
@EricGT
This feature has been enabled on my account for a while, but I painted myself into a corner. The daily suggestions are still focused on items I asked to be curated one or two months ago, and I never updated them.
After you started this conversation, I kept thinking about how this could deliver real value. As I increasingly use AI to do work for me, there is a risk of unlearning certain skills, or at least losing touch with the underlying work and reasoning needed to produce good results. I want to try using Pulse as a way to reinforce, revisit, and better understand what I largely automated the previous day with ChatGPT.
For example, if I asked about taxes in my country yesterday, it would be useful to receive a short quiz the next day to confirm that I actually understand and remember what we discussed. That kind of approach might help me use the tool more consistently and get more value out of it.
Ps. just updated the task. First actual learning of today: We can define ourselves at what time of day we receive the daily Pulse. That’s good to know! I may just try putting it into the evening as a “reflect on the day/plan the next day” activity.
