This week on AppStories, Federico and John look at the confusing array of tools and naming conventions used by Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Links and Show Notes
The Fragmented World of AI Tools
Anthropic’s Claude
Claude for Mac
Claude Cowork
Claude Code
Claude Code on the web
Claude Code Remote Control
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
OpenAI’s Codex
ChatGPT for Mac
Codex for Mac
Codex CLI
GPT-5.4
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
Cerebras
Codex Skills GitHub Repository
Also mentioned:
Playwright
Todoist
Notion
Gmail
Pushover
Linear
GitHub
Brrr
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iZotope RX 11
Hush
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