alt Hacker NewsSo let me get this straight:
1) If you have the Codex desktop app installed, and you update from within the app, it replaces itself with the new chat-demoted-to-an-overlay app called "ChatGPT" and renames your existing ChatGPT app to "ChatGPT Classic."
2) If you get the new ChatGPT app and replace your current app with it, you don't get a "Classic" app and there's no way to download it.
3) They really named an app "Classic." Naming your app Classic is putting a bright red sign on it that says "this app will be abandoned soon." They might as well have called it "ChatGPT Sunset."
If this is all true, that is certainly...one way to do product management.
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Nobody in product development saw the need to leave behind a "Classic" version as a clue that this new bloated abomination is subpar?
Sounds kind of ominous.
I was just about to pull the trigger, and upgrade my sub, but maybe I'm better off, moving over to Claude, even though it means rebuilding my history.
the dmg for chatgpt used to have the bundleID of com.openai.chatgpt, now the ChatGPT bundlID is com.openai.codex.
the website for downloading the new chatGPT ( https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/app ) has a big download button in the middle of the page that links to "https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/Codex.dmg"
wtaf OpenAI... pick a freaking lane! what did you vibe code this ?
Chat is there... it's just can't be in a full-screen anymore.
Presumably there are some features in the old app that will be migrated to the new app or dropped. Seems fine.
I guess the smarter ai gets the dumber we have to be to compensate