Where the Term Comes From ChatGPT Work names one of the two sections inside OpenAI's merged ChatGPT desktop app. OpenAI combined the previously separate ChatGPT and Codex desktop applications into a single app, and the merged app is split into ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codex. [^cb24ef4d-a000-5560-8446-9ed871f58aa8@65] What Makes It Distinct In the channel's coverage, the two sections are described as basically the same thing under the hood — the same model in two presentations. [^f61c605a-a560-515b-8111-60dc76be4fc5@100] The difference is presentation: ChatGPT Work hides the code, so non-technical people can use the same agentic workflows that programmers use, while ChatGPT Codex presents everything in a more programming-like way. How It Is Used in the Channel - It is the environment where GPT-5.6 (Sol) is positioned as the gold standard for knowledge work — the everyday surface for writing, coding, and data work. [^cb24ef4d-a000-5560-8446-9ed871f58aa8@65] - The channel's reviewers used it to run agentic loops — set the rails, let the agent do the work, review, and iterate — with cheap reviews and quick iterations across parallel workflows. [^cb24ef4d-a000-5560-8446-9ed871f58aa8@730] - It is framed as the first place non-programmers can genuinely run a programmer-style approach to intellectual work: “I believe this model offers a new approach to intellectual work, familiar to programmers, but now available to everyone in ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codeex.” [^f61c605a-a560-515b-8111-60dc76be4fc5@4] - ChatGPT Work is one of two sections in the merged ChatGPT desktop app, alongside ChatGPT Codex. - Both sections run the same model; Work simply hides the code for non-technical users. - In the channel's testing, it is the surface where GPT-5.6 (Sol) delivers fast, iterative knowledge work. - It opens programmer-style agentic workflows to people who don't write code.