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No, this isn't the same as openers/followers, because your opponent (usually) has things set to obey the handedness of the follower, not the opener.
This is a lefty-team strategy designed to fool the other team into starting their righties rather than their lefties. The Washington Senators tried this with "some" success for a few years in OL perfect. In their case, though, they had all the lefty starters set to a 40 pitch count.
Still, they encountered the real problem with this strategy which is that it tires out your bullpen, the way the game works. You have to have a lot of pitchers in the bullpen (most of them with starting stamina) in order to pull it off.
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