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Re: The Codex App

#71

Mac only. Again . Apple is great but this is OpenAI devs showing their disconnect from the mainstream. Its complacent at best, contemptuous at worst. SamA or somebody really needs to give the product managers here a kick up the arse.

If you were going to release a product for developers as soon as it was ready for developers to try, such that you could only launch on one platform and then follow up later with the rest, macOS is the obvious choice. There's nothing contemptuous about that.

Re: The Codex App

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post #60

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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!

Curios why electron not native? Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration?

When you're a trillion dollar company that burns more coal than Bangladesh in order to harness a hyperintelligent Machine God to serve your whims, you don't have the resources to maintain native clients for three separate targets.

Re: The Codex App

#75
I’ve been using codex regularly and it’s pretty good at model extra high with pretty generous context.

From the video, I can see how this app would be useful in:

- Creating branches without having to open another terminal, or creating a new branch before the session.

- Seeing diff in the same app.

- working on multiple sessions at once without switching CLI

- I quite like the “address the comments”, I can see how this would be valuable

I will give it a try for sure

Re: The Codex App

#76
post #45

> "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…

I've had no issues with prompts like that. I use Cursor with their plan mode, so I get a nice markdown file to iterate on or edit myself before it actually does anything.

100%

First phase: Plan. Mandatory to complete, as well as get AI feedback from a separate context or model. Iterate until complete.

Only then move on to the Second Phase: make edits.

Better planning == Better execution

Re: The Codex App

#77
The landing page for the demo game "Voxel Velocity" mentions " start" at the bottom, but actually changes selection. One would think that after 7mm tokens and use of a QA agent, they would catch something like this.

Re: The Codex App

#78
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Curios why electron not native? Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration?

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Re: The Codex App

#79

> "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…

The better models can handle that prompt assuming there is an existing clean codebase and the scope of the task is not too large. The existing code can act as an implicit boundary.

Weaker models give your experience, or when using a 100% LLM codebase I think it can end up in a hall of mirrors.

Now I have an idea to try, have a 2nd LLM processing pass that normalizes the vibe-code to some personal style and standard to break it out of the Stack Overflow snippet maze it can get itself in.

Re: The Codex App

#80
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had no issues with prompts like that. I use Cursor with their plan mode, so I get a nice markdown file to iterate on or edit myself before it actually does anything.

100% First phase: Plan. Mandatory to complete, as well as get AI feedback from a separate context or model. Iterate until complete. Only then move on to the Second Phase: make edits. Better planning == Better execution

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