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Re: The Codex App

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Post by dkundel »

strongpigeon wrote: post #5

Genuinely excited to try this out. I've started using Codex much more heavily in the past two months and honestly, it's been shockingly good. Not perfect mind you, but it keeps impressing me with what it's able to "get". It often gets stuff wrong, and at times runs with faulty assumptions, but overall it's no worse than having average L3-L4 engs at your disposal. That being said, the app is stuck at the launch screen…

Hey thank you for calling out the broken link. That should be fixed now. Will make sure to track down the other broken links. We'll track down why loading is taking a while for you. Should definitely be snappier.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by sigbottle »

embedding-shape wrote: post #12
drcongo wrote: post #2

> We're also excited to show more people what's now possible with Codex . For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free and Go, and we're doubling the rate limits on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. Translated from Marketingspeak, this is presumably "we're also desperate for some people to actually use it because everyone shrugged and went back to Claude Code when we released it".

I dunno, feels like the models have different weak/strong points, sometimes I can sit with Claude Code for an hour with some issue, try it with Codex and have it solved in five minutes, and also the opposite happens. I tend to use Codex mostly when I care more about correctness and not missing anything, Claude when it's more important I do it fast and I know exactly what it needs to do, Codex seems to require less ha…

GPT models definitely seem stronger when they "get it" and in the types of problems they "get", while claude seems more holistic but not "as smart" as some of the spikes GPT can get.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by aed »

I typically bounce between Claude Code and Codex for the same project, and generally enjoy using both to check each other.

One cool thing about this: upon installing it immediately found all previous projects I've used with Codex and has those projects in the sidebar with all of the "threads" (sessions) I've had with Codex on these projects!

Re: The Codex App

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Post by TZubiri »

miroljub wrote: post #8

Given the prevalence of Opencode and its ability to use any model and provider I don't see reason why would anyone bother with random vendors half-assed tools.

Are you calling OpenAI a random vendor?

That's like calling Coca Cola a random beverage vendor

Re: The Codex App

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Post by cobolexpert »

xGrill wrote: post #19

Is this not just a skinned version of Goose: https://block.github.io/goose/

In the end this and all other 89372304 AI projects are just OpenAPI/Anthropic API wrappers, but at least one has 1st party support which maybe gives it a slight advantage?

Re: The Codex App

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Post by IMTDb »

samuelstros wrote: post #6

It's basically what Emdash ( https://www.emdash.sh/ ), Conductor ( https://www.conductor.build/ ) & CO have been building but as first class product from OpenAI. Begs the question if Anthropic will follow up with a first-class Claude Code "multi agent" (git worktree) app themselves.

Maybe a dumb question on my side; but if you are using a GUI like emdash with Claude Code, are you getting the full claude code harness under the hood or are you "just" leveraging the model ?

Re: The Codex App

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Post by oneneptune »

I'm a Claude Code user primarily. The best UI based orchestrator I've used is Zenflow by Zencoder.ai -- I am in no way affiliated with them, but their UI / tool can connect to any model or service you have. They offer their own model but I've not used it.

What I like is that the sessions are highly configurable from their plan.md which translates a md document into a process. So you can tweak and add steps. This is similar to some of the other workflow tools I've seen around hooks and such -- but presented in a way that is easy for me to use. I also like that it can update the plan.md as it goes to dynamically add steps and even add "hooks" as needed based on the problem.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by barbazoo »

barbazoo wrote: post #30

> "Localize my app and add the option to change units" To me this still feels like the wrong way to interact with a coding agent. Does this lead people to success? I've never seen it not go off the rails in some way unless you provide clear boundaries as to what the scope of the expected change is. It's gonna write code if you don't even want it to yet, it's gonna write the test first or the logic first, whichever yo…

And then

> gh-address-comments address comments

Inspiring stuff. I would love to be the one writing GH comments here. /s

But maybe there's a complementary gh-leave-comments to have it review PRs for you too.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by surrTurr »

solomatov wrote: post #11

Is it open source? Do they disclose which framework they use for the GUI? Is it Electron or Tauri?

lol ofc not

looks like the same framework they used to build chatgpt desktop (electron)

edit - from another comment:

> Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as well. We shipped macOS first, but Windows is coming very soon. Appreciate you calling this out. Stay tuned!

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