ChatGPT Work
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2026 66 mentions in 6 episodes 11 per episode
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Brockman: ChatGPT Work triggered 'almost vertical wall' of agentic adoption
“We've had this like almost vertical wall of agentic adoption since we launched chat GPT work.”
Seshan: ChatGPT Work executes tasks in the cloud while offline
“Even more transformatively, go try it on mobile, then take like a long subway ride or something like that, or a muni ride. And when you pop out after having no service, the thing is done for you. That's the part that feels super duper magical. You're not like …”
Nathan: Codex and ChatGPT Work share the same underlying agent harness
“So the harness is the same. The harness is shared. On, In both of the products, we made improvements to the harness to make it good for knowledge work, especially as it relates to plugins or computer use or artifacts. You get that power regardless of what your…”
Nathan: OpenAI sequencing agents from developers to knowledge workers to everyone
“The vision is like bring useful agents to everyone. We started with like developers Historically are like early adopters that are willing to put up with more friction, set things up, et cetera. Like that's where, you know, Codex started. I think the next oppor…”
Swyx: ChatGPT Work is OpenAI's most successful launch, surpassing GPT-5
“I have pretty much said this is the most successful launch in a long time. I think even more successful personally than five point O”
Nathan: OpenAI plans to keep developing Codex specifically for developers
“Like, I think we fully intend to like, you know, treat developer, like developers have been, you know, a core market for us for so long. And like, there's so much more that we can do to make Codex great specifically for software development, and we'll continue…”
Nathan: ChatGPT Work includes persistent computer environments across sessions
“In ChatGPT work in web and mobile, like, you get access to those, like, persistent computer environment where, you know, you can store files, and those files stay around between sessions.”
Nathan: ChatGPT Work will not completely replace open-source OpenClaw
“I don't think so. I think that there's going to be, you know, there's always a need for, like, this, like, incredible, like, open source technology that, that team has built”
Nathan: Sub-agents and tool calling significantly raise MCP execution ceiling
“It's very possible that there's a, the ceiling on what can be done, you know, with MCPs and like calling out to these server-friendly services has been raised substantially.”
ChatGPT Work feels rushed and underwhelming compared to Claude Cowork
“Played a bit with ChatGPT work. Was definitely underwhelmed. It felt a bit rushed in terms of, like, how Claude co-work was kind of slowly built out, and now has been integrated into the main Claude interface as, like, a separate button, which is another topic…”