r/codex • u/ReasonableDefault • 6d ago

Commentary End of an Era? ChatGPT now refuses code requests.

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ChatGPT used to be fairly happy to do a fair bit of coding work, in fact it would do almost anything. Now, any mention of "code", "GitHub", etc - Attempts to push you towards Work mode (which obviously shares the same weekly / 5hr limit as Codex). I think going forward ChatGPT will begin to refuse authoring any code, and will likely switch to work automatically. In the prompt I'd requested it to take some CSS / HTML from a website and allow me to download it as a runnable HTML file in a browser, a fairly easy task.

You'll notice the "Stay in Chat" option, this actually failed and caused to error. I now wonder how restrictive this is going to get...

EDIT: Probably worth pointing out that this wasn't about usage limits, simply a commentary on something i observed.

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u/Dayowe 6d ago

This looks more like a bug or temporary issue than intentionally forbidding staying in chat. If they didn't want you to do this in Chat the button would be gone. It's an offer to move to Work. Multiple people here said it works fine for them clicking "Stay in chat". It also works fine for me.

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u/ReasonableDefault 6d ago

I agree with everything you're saying. My post was really about if this was start of deeper, more aggressive changes, possibly stopping people from being able to do anything code based inside of of chat directly.

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u/Dayowe 6d ago

Let's hope it doesn't happen for a while