# general-agents Published articles for general-agents. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude DevFeed: [Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Simon Willison Published: 2026-09-16T18:09:49Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Simon Willison's Weblog]() Topics: [Claude](), [anthropic](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [Generative AI](), [Large Language Model]() Tags: [ai](), [ai-2-237](), [anthropic](), [anthropic-337](), [claude](), [claude-311](), [general-agents](), [general-agents-13](), [generative-ai](), [generative-ai-1-983](), [llms](), [llms-1-949]() ### AI overview Anthropic is merging Claude Cowork and Claude chat into one Claude experience. The change is rolling out first to Pro and Max users in the Claude app across web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks. The author notes that the practical feature and surface boundaries remain unclear. ### Source excerpt Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. Bring a quick question, or hand over a report due at noon, and Claude takes it from there, even after you've closed your laptop. [...] This is rolling out to Pro and Max plans first, in the Claude app on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks to existing and new users on these plans. I guess this means Claude is becoming a general agent in its own right. Echoes of OpenAI renaming their Codex desktop app to ChatGPT a few weeks ago. On the one hand, this saves me some work, in that I was planning to finally figure out the boundaries between Cowork and regular Claude and write a follow-up to my piece on Understanding ChatGPT Work. I have a hunch that figuring out what this actually means in terms of features and surfaces is still going to take quite a bit of work. Via Hacker News Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, general-agents ## Understanding ChatGPT Work DevFeed: [Understanding ChatGPT Work]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Simon Willison Published: 2026-08-30T23:59:47Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Simon Willison]() Topics: [ChatGPT](), [OpenAI](), [App](), [codex]() Tags: [ai](), [ai-2-235](), [app](), [article](), [chatgpt](), [chatgpt-204](), [code-interpreter](), [code-interpreter-32](), [general-agents](), [general-agents-12](), [generative-ai](), [generative-ai-1-981](), [lethal-trifecta](), [lethal-trifecta-30](), [llms](), [llms-1-947](), [openai](), [openai-463](), [skills](), [skills-15]() ### AI overview An overview of ChatGPT Work, distinguishing its cloud and local versions and describing the cloud version's access requirements and features that differ from ChatGPT Chat. ### Source excerpt OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one that runs in the cloud. This can be accessed via chatgpt.com or through the ChatGPT mobile apps. Let's call it Work Cloud. If you install the ChatGPT desktop app - the app that used to be called Codex - you gain access to a thing called ChatGPT Work that can access files and run programs directly on your computer. Let's call that one Work Local. This one feels more like regular Codex re-skinned to be less intimidating to non-software-developers. (Update: Work Cloud is also available from the ChatGPT desktop app, via a Where should this chat run? dropdown.) For the rest of this article I'm going to talk exclusively about Work Cloud. Work is for paid subscribers only Right now, ChatGPT Work (in both flavors) is available only to $20/month and up subscribers. Free users and $8/month Go users do not have access. Work has features that aren't available in Chat The interface for accessing Work is a tab selector, which presents it as an alternative to Chat: The obvious question is when should I use Chat, and when should I use Work? OpenAI's official answer to that question is: Use Chat when you want an answer, explanation, brainstorm, or short draft. Use ChatGPT Work when you want ChatGPT to complete a task with a clear outcome, such as a brief, deck, analysis, recurring update, workflow, or file you can review and use. I find that almost entirely useless, because I've been using regular ChatGPT Chat for all of those task categories for years! The better question then is what features does Work have that are missing from Chat? After extensive experimentation I think I've mostly figured that out: Options to use Luna and Terra in place of Sol A code execution environment with Interne