ChatGPT Desktop Gets Activity View; Community Says It Leaves Cursor Behind
steipete · x · 2026-08-01
OpenAI Developers announced a new Activity view in the ChatGPT desktop app. This feature is designed to bring together conversations that need user attention and recent updates across projects.
The update sparked active community discussion. One developer praised the feature as neat and called out Cursor and Claude, suggesting that OpenAI's Codex—despite being only a few months old—is already making its competitors look behind in the coding tool race.
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