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Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by boplicity »

merpkz wrote: post #94
safety1st wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Work/Codex I'm continually amazed at how far my experience is from the popular AI memes like "this will destroy all jobs" and "AI is useless and is about to crash and take the economy with it." My experience feels like I'm in an Iron Man movie. I get up in the morning, I turn on the voice chat mode, and while I'm making my coffee I ask it to highlight any important emails I received overnight. I then babble to…

I feel like in near future the meme about "it's all just chatbots emailing each other" will actually be true. I wonder when I will receive my first AI generated email and will I bother to respond to it at all

We get tons of AI generated emails. They're almost universally deleted without reply.

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by garbagewoman »

DarmokTanagra wrote: post #89
xatxat wrote: post #33

I recently figured out that I could use ChatGPT Work on my Pixel Phone to build native Android apps. It builds the app and you can then directly download/install the APK. So now I just build small utility apps on-the-go whenever I need them :)

What kinds of apps are you building? Personally I can't remember the last time I needed an app and there weren't already several options to choose from.

A free app without ads that solves serves a single specific purpose?

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by trash_cat »

xatxat wrote: post #33

I recently figured out that I could use ChatGPT Work on my Pixel Phone to build native Android apps. It builds the app and you can then directly download/install the APK. So now I just build small utility apps on-the-go whenever I need them :)

Why not use Codex for that? What is the differnce between work and codex for a very specific task that involves terminals?

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by cainxinth »

tristanj wrote: post #4

I think most people are sleeping on the ChatGPT Work/Codex computer use feature. It's incredibly useful. I can remote in from the app, voice it instructions, then let it work in the background. When I tell it "draft a reply to this email (which it has access to thru the gmail connector) and attach the latest docs" or "fill out this multistep immigration electronic travel authorisation form using my passport files sav…

> It's exactly like vibe coding but for computer tasks.

That’s precisely why I don’t use it. LLMs are still not reliable enough for me to trust them with my actual system.

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by simonw »

matsemann wrote: post #103
simonw wrote: post #23

I just updated the article to link to this site: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/ Which I created using this prompt in a fresh Work session: > Build a site that lists every one of your tools - nearly grouped into categories - and for each one explain what it does. Try to exactly duplicate arguments and tool descriptions where possible. Design aesthetic should be technical docs, minimal flare UPDATE:…

Honest question: why would I ever visit that site? It's just an insane amount of text. Not written or curated by you. Any need for me for this data would be fulfilled by just asking the agent myself, and with pointed questions it could float better what I need than this vomit of data?

It's effectively the source code for ChatGPT Work. If you don't want to see that, don't visit it.

The non-vomit version of it is my (entirely human written) OP: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-...

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by andai »

>[ChatGPT Work offers] Options to use Luna and Terra in place of Sol

So if I'm looking to get serious work done, I might want to reach for a less intelligent LLM? What's the idea here?

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by andai »

So it's a different set of tools / skills? Isn't the whole point of the tools/skills that you can use them on-demand? i.e. having them available doesn't make anything worse does it?

Why did it even need to be a separate thing?

So this seems more like a branding thing to me? Oh if you want to do serious work you need the paid subscription!

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by simonw »

rvz wrote: post #109
4747474747 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

occams razor says this parasite gets support from YC for these circucular promotion schemes with the companies he writes about

Almost, but not quite. I would say "protected" accounts and domain names by well known YC folks are "allowed" to do this on this site. If is anyone else, then they get themselves banned.

Allowed to do what?

Re: Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Post by simonw »

andai wrote: post #137

>[ChatGPT Work offers] Options to use Luna and Terra in place of Sol So if I'm looking to get serious work done, I might want to reach for a less intelligent LLM? What's the idea here?

It saves you money. ChatGPT Work uses up your Codex allowance.

Luna can also be quite a bit faster.

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