Behind the Craft · Sunday, July 26, 2026
Jason Liu from OpenAI discusses how the ChatGPT Work app is a different view of the Codex experience, designed for productivity by abstracting away coding details. While Codex shows Git history and pull requests, Work hides these for tasks like making slides, where seeing the underlying Python code might be unnecessary.
“So it turns out that if you want to build a very good work productivity tool, a really good coding agent is a place to start.”
“And so Codex will be able to show you things like your Git history, your pull requests, code changes, whereas work kind of just hides that behind the scenes.”
“You know, if I'm making slides, potentially I don't really really need to see that I've written 20 lines of Python to do something, right?”