The Fractal Fragmentation of AI Tools

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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