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Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by michelb »

So I've now lost all my ChatGPT chats? Or did they hide them? I see some of them, but the history is inaccessible??

Edit: I found them back in the 'classic' version of the app. Wildly confusing what is going to happen to the data there, chats, projects, custom GPT's.

This is going to be fun tomorrow when everyone at the company I work at finds out all their chats, projects and GPT’s are ‘gone’ after they ‘update’. And not a word about this switcheroo ‘data loss’ in their comms. Wow.

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Post by gabriel-uribe »

The toggle feels useless in the desktop app. It just changes a few shortcuts?!

Admittedly, I was already using Codex a bit like Claude Cowork. I'm just surprised they decided to merge threads.

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Post by lukebuehler »

I think these kind of semi-coding agents--but hosted--are the future for enterprises. Claude Tag, Claude Cowork, now Work by OAI.

Agents-on-your-machine clearly have their place, but for many workflows this is too unruly. Hence, the "long-running agent running on shared infra" pattern.

I think this is where the ball is headed. I'm building towards an open source version of this[0]. Still just working on the core, but hopefully soon self-hosted versions can be built on top.

[0] https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/lightspeed

Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by woodylondon »

I have a longer version of this, but in summary

So my understanding of the differences between chat, code and co-work; but may well be wrong!

Chat is the human, talking directly to the LLM - old school. Very basic can create docs etc - but saves in a temp folder. No real access to your local PC.

Cowork / work - Human talking to an agent, which can then use tools to do work. Also runs in a container, allowing it access to your drives/computer.

Claude Code / Codex - No longer in a container, full access to the computer, depending on what permissions you give. No longer locked in a container. + The agent is more focused on coding than cowork / work.

Re: ChatGPT Work

#45

Post by paxys »

postalcoder wrote: post #23

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…

It’s all ChatGPT under the hood. Even though it says Work or Codex or whatever you can just ask it whatever you want, and it will work.

Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by sulam »

woodylondon wrote: post #44

I have a longer version of this, but in summary So my understanding of the differences between chat, code and co-work; but may well be wrong! Chat is the human, talking directly to the LLM - old school. Very basic can create docs etc - but saves in a temp folder. No real access to your local PC. Cowork / work - Human talking to an agent, which can then use tools to do work. Also runs in a container, allowing it acces…

> The agent is more focused on coding than cowork / work

I suspect this difference is pretty minimal. Before Cowork launched I was using Claude Code in the way that I use Cowork now and getting pretty much the same results albeit without the sandboxing (which is more of a hassle than not, TBH). OpenAI says in their announcement that the same is true for Codex, which doesn't surprise me at all.

These agentic loops are pretty applicable to all kinds of tasks, not just coding, and people started realizing this pretty quickly upon their introduction / creation.

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Post by lagrange77 »

lukebuehler wrote: post #43

I think these kind of semi-coding agents--but hosted--are the future for enterprises. Claude Tag, Claude Cowork, now Work by OAI. Agents-on-your-machine clearly have their place, but for many workflows this is too unruly. Hence, the "long-running agent running on shared infra" pattern. I think this is where the ball is headed. I'm building towards an open source version of this[0]. Still just working on the core, but…

> I'm building towards an open source version of this

Interesting. So the main use case would be entities that run lightspeed on a beefy private cloud or on premise?

Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by ranyume »

kirykl wrote: post #35

All models I’ve used have been exceptionally bad at creating a high level business oriented vision and strategy from various inputs. The output just feels like it can’t see past the next word, or render distance, misses the big picture and anything not specified in prompt or input context

This is true but I also find the opposite true: the model is highly dependent on the input/prompt, to the point that it can't think beyond it or about it.

Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by paxys »

serial_dev wrote: post #37
beering wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It looks like the ChatGPT is a very strong brand despite the confusing name (who the hell knows what GPT stands for?)

Doesn’t really matter what it stands for. ChatGPT is one of the most recognizable brands in the world right now.

Re: ChatGPT Work

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Post by postalcoder »

paxys wrote: post #45
postalcoder wrote: post #23

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…

It’s all ChatGPT under the hood. Even though it says Work or Codex or whatever you can just ask it whatever you want, and it will work.

> Even though it says Work or Codex or whatever you can just ask it whatever you want, and it will work.

No it's not. Codex creates a new folder in `~/Documents` in iCloud drive/OneDrive for every single thread you make. Furthermore, these threads are also polluted with your global AGENTS.md file, as well as all other developer_instructions that are injected by the harness.

I want my chat isolated from work contexts.

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