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Chat vs agent vs work mode vs coding agent
Ellis flipped on a work mode to tighten one paragraph. It started sorting a 62-file folder. This part names four doors sold as AI (chat, a general agent, work or Cowork on your files, a coding agent in a repo) so you pick by the artifact, not the logo.
Study, work email, plans, and shopping research
Jonah stacked four jobs in one ChatGPT thread and the model put a $1,199 laptop price into the email to his manager.…
Files, uploads, and where your data goes
Owen dropped a 31 MB CRM export into a Free chat to chart four regions. Typing, uploads, Drive connectors, and a desktop…
Grok Build for sheets and research (carefully)
The six-tab workbook looked finished until Finance opened Tax and saw margin using list price including 8.4 percent tax on KIT-214. Use…
Models chooser without hype
Model names change faster than team training decks. Part 5 of the Gemini product map gives a job-first chooser for Flash-class vs…



