Episode Details

This week on AppStories, Federico and John look at the confusing array of tools and naming conventions used by Anthropic and OpenAI.

On AppStories+, John explains how he automated two unautomatable Mac apps.

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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

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