Ethan Mollick: Codex voice is magical but full of rough edges for real work
emollick · x · 2026-09-03
Ethan Mollick reviews Codex voice (or ChatGPT Work in Codex voice): talking to your computer is genuinely magical and worth trying, but real work exposes loose edges. It constantly switches threads, only sometimes multitasks, and accesses the rest of Codex inconsistently. Key questions remain unanswered: where is the content it's working on, how do you feed the "voice" information, and how do you resume a conversation?
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