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A comment on GPT-5.6. Parent comment

Re:GPT-5.6 by apinstein on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:18PM (#48853706)
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.

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Re:GPT-5.6 by varenc on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:17PM (#48855359)
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)
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Re:GPT-5.6 by Featherknight on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:21PM (#48862043)
what's the domain?
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Re:GPT-5.6 by varenc on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:04PM (#48868303)
persistent.oaistatic.com for OAI software. Not just a subdomain, but a whole separate domain, making it easy !
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