ChatGPT Itself Is Smart—So Why Do Things Go Off Track When I Use Work or Codex? The Weakness I've Noticed in Tool Integration
ChatGPT's own writing and conversation quality has gotten noticeably better, but handing tasks off to Work for bulk processing or switching to Codex often loses the fine-grained context built up over a long chat. From a 100-article translation job where Work quietly dropped notes and added new sections, to Codex misreading assumptions, to ChatGPT repeatedly checking a cached, outdated version of my own website—here's what I actually ran into with ChatGPT's tool integration, and how I'm working around it.









