Can you elaborate?
It had a tough time updating today. Or this evening. It just wouldn't update. It actually just freaking disappeared from my MacBook. It took some googling and downloading and multiple tries to get it back and working. Because they also combine on a MacBook Codex with ChatGPT app. I guess codex became ChatGPT app or some silliness like that.
> destroy ChatGPT.app today.
... What changed, exactly?
Codex.app is gone and merged into ChatGPT.app. The upgrade process was... messy... Codex's self-update just deleted the Codex.app w/o further instruction. And ChatGPT updater failed the first time while also bricking the prior installed ChatGPT.app.
Seems good/fine once you get through upgrading the app.
Wow, stories like this make me happy that I block all ChatGPT/Claude/Codex/etc updates by default, and only selectively update on demand. I do this just by setting a network rule that blocks their update check. (fortunately updates are still served on a different domain than regular usage)
Re:GPT-5.6
by Featherknight on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:21PM
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what's the domain?
persistent.oaistatic.com for OAI software. Not just a subdomain, but a whole separate domain, making it easy !
Re:GPT-5.6
by speak_plainly on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:29AM
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It's crazy that they sort of deprecated chat in the new ChatGPT app.
This will totally make it brain damaged over a certain tasks. Sort of like the same brain damage that prompted OpenAI project managers to destroy ChatGPT.app today.