How GPT-5.6 Changes Knowledge Work

TL;DR: GPT-5.6 is the first model I’ve used that can reliably run whole loops of knowledge work, not just help with individual tasks. Your job turns from doing the work to tending the system that does it. If you want to try this for yourself, we’re open-sourcing a prompt and repository called Tend so you can try working this way in ChatGPT Work.

GPT-5.6 heralds a new way of doing knowledge work.

Instead of using AI to complete one task at a time, you build a system that scans the available information, turns it into proposed decisions, and carries out the ones you approve. Over time, the system compounds your feedback to do more and more on its own.

This changes your job. It requires you to see your work as—dare I say it—a loop. You go from doing all of the work yourself to tending the system that does it for you: