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Re: The Codex App

#61

This looks interesting and I use Codex a fair bit already in vscode etc, but I'm having trouble leaving a 'code editor with AI' to an environment that sort of looks like it puts the code as a hidden secondary artefact. I guess the key thing is the multi agent spinning plates part.

(I work on Codex) I think for us the big unlock was GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex, where we found ourselves needing to make many fewer manual edits.

Re: The Codex App

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How about us, Linux users? This is Mac only. Do they plan to support CLI version with all the features they are adding to desktop app?

Hi! Romain here, I work at OpenAI. The team actually built the Codex app in Electron so we can support both Windows and Linux very soon. Stay tuned!

Re: The Codex App

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post #46

Genuinely curious if people would just let this rip with no obvious isolation? I’m aware Mac OS has some isolation/sandboxes but without running codex via docker I wouldn’t be running codex. (Appreciate there are still risks)

(I work on Codex) We have a robust sandbox for macOS and Linux. Not quite yet for Windows, but working on that! Docs: https://developers.openai.com/codex/security

Re: The Codex App

#66
> For a limited time, Codex will also be available to ChatGPT Free and Go users to help build more with agents. We’re also doubling rate limits for existing Codex users across all paid plans during this period.

Is there more information about it? For how long and what are the limits?

Re: The Codex App

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post #31

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.

Is this the only announcement for Apple platform devs?

I thought Codex team tweeted about something coming for Xcode users - but maybe it just meant devs who are Apple users, not devs working on Apple platform apps...

Re: The Codex App

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post #66

> For a limited time, Codex will also be available to ChatGPT Free and Go users to help build more with agents. We’re also doubling rate limits for existing Codex users across all paid plans during this period. Is there more information about it? For how long and what are the limits?

no

Re: The Codex App

#70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, looks like I'll stay on Cursor. All alternatives come out buggy, they care a lot about developer experience. BTW OpenAI should think a bit about polishing their main apps instead of trying to come out with new ones while the originals are still buggy.

(I work on Codex) One detail you might appreciate is that we built the app with a ton of code sharing with the CLI (as core agent harness) and the VSCode extension (UI layer), so that as we improve any of those, we polish them all.

Any reason to switch from vscode with codex to this app? To me it looks like this app is more for non-developers but maybe I’m missing something
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