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Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by sailingparrot »

thimabi wrote: post #15

I wonder why they haven’t simply continued to rebrand Codex as a general-purpose tool. ChatGPT Work is a convoluted name and continues the trend of having separate brands for separate things, what runs counter to OpenAI’s purported goal of unifying every workflow into a single “superapp”. Worse still: what happens when your workflow involves both coding and general knowledge work? Are you expected to switch apps, or…

> I wonder why they haven’t simply continued to rebrand Codex as a general-purpose tool.

They have, if you try to download ChatGPT app, it actually downloads codex now, and the first screen is "Codex is now the ChatGPT App"

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Post by beering »

thimabi wrote: post #15

I wonder why they haven’t simply continued to rebrand Codex as a general-purpose tool. ChatGPT Work is a convoluted name and continues the trend of having separate brands for separate things, what runs counter to OpenAI’s purported goal of unifying every workflow into a single “superapp”. Worse still: what happens when your workflow involves both coding and general knowledge work? Are you expected to switch apps, or…

because every non-programmer hears “codex” and thinks that it’s for coding only - seems like a large hurdle to adoption. claude has been successful with cowork branding which makes sense.

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Post by postalcoder »

I just installed this. I am very confused. I no longer have a Codex app on my computer. ChatGPT is now Codex.

But what happened to ChatGPT? Where am I supposed to casually chat?

Also, when you toggle btween ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codex, nothing changes. This is super confusing. Can someone from the OpenAI team clarify the difference btwn the modes? Does chatgpt work have more business-y related plugins turned on by default?

Edit: So it seems like the only place you can actually chat with chatgpt is in an awkward homeless nested window. idk. The chatgpt interface wasn't great (desperately needed artifacts), but I still used it a lot. I can't see this change going well with a lot of the casual users.

Edit2: In their awkward homeless nested chat mode, you cannot even edit past messages. this is a mess, why was the team so zealous to pull the switch on unification in this state? guessing there was internal pressure to juice codex's growth but, based on what im seeing, they did it by torching chatgpt?

Edit 3: Ok so it seems like ChatGPT is still around, but renamed to "ChatGPT Classic". Seems like it wont be long for this world because there's no place to download ChatGPT Classic should you choose to uninstall it. The dmg at https://chatgpt.com/download/ only contains the new ChatGPT.

Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by materialpoint »

thimabi wrote: post #15

I wonder why they haven’t simply continued to rebrand Codex as a general-purpose tool. ChatGPT Work is a convoluted name and continues the trend of having separate brands for separate things, what runs counter to OpenAI’s purported goal of unifying every workflow into a single “superapp”. Worse still: what happens when your workflow involves both coding and general knowledge work? Are you expected to switch apps, or…

Isn't Microsoft heavily invested? As one should know, Microsoft are experts at confusing and contrived naming with no connection to reality: Windows Home, Windows Home Premium, Windows Professional, Business, Premium, Small Business etc. Now it is Copilot: Copilot, Copilot Plus, Copilot 365, pretty and Copilot Copilot too, I guess. And ofc Microsoft points, the currency for Xbox. And yeah, anything is Xbox too.

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Post by [deleted] »

thimabi wrote: post #15

I wonder why they haven’t simply continued to rebrand Codex as a general-purpose tool. ChatGPT Work is a convoluted name and continues the trend of having separate brands for separate things, what runs counter to OpenAI’s purported goal of unifying every workflow into a single “superapp”. Worse still: what happens when your workflow involves both coding and general knowledge work? Are you expected to switch apps, or…

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Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by marksully »

marksully wrote: post #20

Codex just started downloading an update and it's gone. It removed itself. I guess it's supposed to be a part of ChatGPT now, but I cannot see any update there yet. btw I kinda hate this, because ChatGPT was always very slow for me - possibly due to amount of historical threads I have there

Ok, I had to re-download Codex from OpenAI's webpage and click update again. Now it's actually different, but I must say it was all a bit confusing.
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