ChatGPT Work feels like OpenAI looked at office work and said: yeah, the problem is the 47 tiny steps between idea and done.
And this GPT‑5.6 demo is basically a tour of those steps getting eaten one by one.
Check email while you’re away from the laptop. Pull files from Drive. Update an old company deck with new report findings. Change one exact slide element. Turn the deck into a site. Compare Japan vs Bali with live options. Split a bigger creative task across sub-agents.
That is the part of GPT‑5.6 I care about.
Not the model names.
The workflow.
Sol can be the brain.
Codex can handle the build.
Connectors bring the context.
Browser use gets live data.
Artifacts turn the output into something you can actually send.
Claude/Fable still feel stronger when I want to think through something hard.
But ChatGPT Work feels like it wants to be the thing that actually does the annoying middle part.
Still early. Still needs checking.
But this is the right direction:
less chatbot, more workbench.
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