corey james

@janvikalra_ @AllanZhou17 Clarifying what was lost with the update: 1. chat history down the side panel (not project or task history) 2. option+space as universal shortcut to floating bar quick chat *Chat* history is now a weird popup window in the desktop ChatGPT app (but not on mobile?) - adds friction

@coreymjames @AllanZhou17 alt, can you toggle the sidebar - that's where i see my history and projects > three dots > to control how the history is displayed

The Codex team is doing a Reddit AMA soon! @janvikalra_ and I will be joining from the research team--come ask us your questions about GPT-5.6!

@AllanZhou17 @janvikalra_ honest question, but can you give some direction on where to send this feedback? It is such a strange choice - I can't even use the option+space command for the 'floating bar' UX for quick lookups anymore... & I need to go to chatgpt.com to see past context windows

@AllanZhou17 @janvikalra_ is the only way to see chat history in the newly combined chat-codex-work desktop app to hover over the 'Chat' in the side menu? (it shows like 5 chats from your history) The deprioritization of the literal "quick chat" function on the desktop is such a confusingly bad choice...

Despite the name “Big Easy”, real New Orleans is found in the small. Small Alleyways, Small Courtyards, Small details like the Roman Candy cart. Small is good. Small is beautiful.

@thsottiaux Right, but I went to go work in Codex and clicked "update" and have been set back hours as a result. This wasn't a smooth launch... It also weirdly minimizes a de-prio's 'Chat' which is.... a pretty core UI/feature of ChatGPT.

Or a generational run. We will continue to make tweaks and we have a TON coming for developers. Meanwhile traffic yesterday sat at ~2X previous peak, team is scrambling to keep everything up and reliable. Time will tell, but I have conviction that attempting to build the one interface to AGI is worthwhile.

A little while ago I shared this message with OpenAI on Slack: Cherished friends, colleagues, members of the staff! I’m graduating this month. There’s not a specific reason for me leaving, or a specific reason for why now. But it’s something I have been thinking of for a while and it feels right. The world is in on the secret now and it feels possible to work on the mission from outside the walls of a frontier lab. I joined OpenAI in 2017 as a 25-year-old intern. Computers could not yet talk or think. I’m 34 now, with a family and a two-year-old son, and computers can solve frontier science problems. This was a decade where centuries happened. The future of humanity depends on the choices we make together about AGI and superintelligence. Everything is at stake. But more importantly, everything is possible. We will soon be able to take shots on goal at the highest aspirations of our species. I believe we can get to a world where “meeting everyone’s basic needs” is not just a solved problem, but where we feel offended the bar was ever set that low. I believe we can get to a world of peace, unprecedented prosperity, and unimaginable possibilities, social and scientific. Whatever I do next, I will continue to work with you on making this vision real. If you were to go back nine years and tell me how it all turned out, I would be astonished to hear so much good news. Thank you for making it so special. Thank you for the privilege of working alongside you. The task of reaching out to everyone to thank individually is daunting because of how long the list is. Fortunately I’ll have a few weeks to do it. My last day will be the 24th. To safe AGI.

Boom will be offering a prize—$50k cash and $50k in Boom stock—for the first amateur-built RC airplane to exceed Mach 1.

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

.@FreddyLA7 had a shrimp po boy, boudin, gumbo and beignets in the team cafeteria ⚜️

Quite the surreal morning in New Orleans today. We got a tour of the Saints and Pelicans facilities. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity. Once in a lifetime.

Building AI resilience is among the most important work of our generation. We have a lot to do to get it right. At the OpenAI Foundation, this is where we’re starting:

I love how heavily @SpaceX leaned into photography in their S-1. The first 15 pages are all pictures, many of which have no explanation at all. It just makes you... feel.

We are entering a new era where the binding constraint on philanthropic startups is no longer funding. The scarce factors are good ideas & the talent who can execute on them. Now is the time for entrepreneurial people to start new organizations that create public goods.

New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)

Shapley values, baby

A very New Orleans story nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/… via @NYTimes

New Orleans Style Courtyard posting will continue until morale improves.