alt Hacker NewsI hope not Chat is still all you can eat and Work uses Codex tokens. I can see why they would want people to think they wanted this without thinking about how it currently works. If Chat starts eating tokens then there is not much reason to use Chat other than most people don't live in the command line like developers. Claude Chat / Cowork already eats tokens either way so not much of a change really. I have never used Work since if I want access to local files the CLI is a much better interface combined with an IDE, but can see the appeal to non-developers.
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I like the web chat UI for quick one off questions where I don’t want it to have the context of a local project I’m working in.
The OpenAI folks have been clear that they are merging them by the end of the year, obviously TBD what they do with quota.
This is my main reason for not using Work. I was tempted to use a few "scheduled tasks" in ChatGPT, but once I found out they used Codex tokens I stopped creating new ones.
I already burn through Codex too fast.