Making ChatGPT stop defaulting to Work mode

In congruence with my typical fight against the world annoying UX that makes me think the designers of products don’t want their users to be happy, today’s fight is with enterprise ChatGPT. For those with ChatGPT accounts that also have “ChatGPT Work” access, chances are that when you open the homepage of ChatGPT, you get immediately put into Work mode, which takes quite a long time to load – and is much slower than the normal Chat mode (since it has to load up an entire VM). “What should we work on?” Nothing, thank you for your attention to this matter. Whether you get Chat or Work mode by default depends on two things: 1. a server-side experiment, and 2. a client-side cookie. If Work mode is the default, it means the server is telling you to use Work. If you pick Chat, the cookie only remembers that choice for four hours (and some accounts seemingly ignore it completely); after those 4 hours, ChatGPT will load in Work mode again. This is… extremely annoying for someone who does not…

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