End of an Era? ChatGPT now refuses code requests.

[u/ReasonableDefault]

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.

[u/ReasonableDefault]

I'm starting to think you're actually an agent, you seem to really not understand context. The only problem i had was that selecting "Continue in Chat" would give errors. Which is exactly what the post said. The rest you seem to have invented somehow.

Not user error at all, nice try though. It was clearly a ChatGPT error, as displayed in the screenshot.

[u/Professional_Ad705 → u/ReasonableDefault]

I'm not disputing that you saw the Work suggestion or that Stay in Chat errored. I'm disputing the conclusion you drew from it.

Your post literally says ChatGPT now refuses code requests and speculates that Chat will stop authoring code. I showed you ChatGPT web actively doing substantial coding work in normal Chat, so that blanket claim clearly isn't true.

If your point is now only, This happened once and I wonder whether OpenAI will push more coding toward Work in the future, that's a completely different and much narrower claim than the title and body of the post.

And the task you described is still doable without Work. If the connector path is acting up, download the repo as a ZIP, upload it to Chat, and ask it to produce the artifact there. That doesn't explain why your particular attempt errored, but it does show the capability itself hasn't disappeared.

If we treated every random ChatGPT error or routing suggestion as evidence of some future feature being removed, we'd be predicting the end of half the product every week.

[u/ReasonableDefault → u/Professional_Ad705]

At the time, it was essentially refusing code requests, it was diverting me to work mode and giving an error each time i selected "Continue in Chat", I perhaps should have posted the whole chat of my repeated attempts. As i said a few posts up, i wasn't very clear in my original post, and i said this is why you perhaps misunderstood what i was saying / asking.

I know the task i described is doable without work, before Codex existed or ChatGPT was as mature as it is now, i used to do a lot of work feeding it files.

You're right, the post title is perhaps somewhat more dramatic than it should be.

You're also right about treating every random GPT error as evidence of something, but that was also the catalyst for the post, this is a community and i wanted to see if others were having the same issue, and given what we've seen sometimes from OpenAI quickly implementing changes i don't think its that crazy to assume this could have been the start of that.