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Today’s the Day OpenAI Fucked Up the ChatGPT Mac App

Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today:

To summarize today’s desktop app changes:

The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic.

Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like<br>Codex and includes the Codex icon as an option, but it’s now<br>called ChatGPT.

ChatGPT for desktop includes ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codex,<br>which share plug-ins. ChatGPT Codex mode shows more technical<br>details that ChatGPT Work abstracts away from the user.

It’s possible to have ChatGPT Classic, ChatGPT, and Codex<br>installed, but the way forward seems to be just running the new<br>ChatGPT desktop app. Codex users can still use the Codex app<br>icon, but the app will be called ChatGPT.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

The ChatGPT Classic app looks more native Mac-like, so that might<br>be an issue for users.

The longstanding native ChatGPT Mac app — the one apparently now called ChatGPT Classic, is a 159 MB bundle. The new ChatGPT superapp — which in addition to combining the simple chatbot, ChatGPT Work, and Codex, also includes the remnants of the now-discontinued Atlas standalone web browser — is a svelte 1.5 GB Electron bundle, which doesn’t sound super to me at all.

★ Thursday, 9 July 2026

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