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Re: The Codex App

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Post by verdverm »

laborcontract wrote: post #84
e1g wrote: post #72

Wow, this is nearly an exact copy of Codex Monitor[1]: voice mode, project + threads/agents, git panel, PR button, terminal drawer, IDE integrations, local/worktree/cloud edits, archiving threads, etc. [1] https://github.com/Dimillian/CodexMonitor

Codex Monitor seems like an Antigravity Agent Manager clone. It came out after, too. Bunch of the features u listed were already in the codex extension too. False outrage it its finest.

Antigravity is a white labeled $2B pork of Windsurf, so it really starts there, but maybe someone knows what windsurf derived from to keep the chain going?

Re: The Codex App

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Post by [deleted] »

turblety wrote: post #106
laborcontract wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already out.

Can you explain how to use it? I’ve tried asking it to do “create 3 files using multiple sub agents” and other similar wording. It never works. Is it in the main Codex build? There doesn’t seem to be an experiment for it. https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2604

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Re: The Codex App

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Post by hmate9 »

oompydoompy74 wrote: post #42

Looks like they forgot the part of the code editor where you can… edit code. Claude Code in Zed is about the most optimal experience I can imagine. I want the agent on the side and a code editor in the middle.

That’s not really a negative for me as I can easily jump into vscode where I already have my workspace for coding set up exactly as I like it. This being a completely separate app just to get the agentic work right is a good direction imo

Re: The Codex App

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Post by macmac_mac »

i've been using ai vibe coding tools since Copilot was basically spicy autocomplete, and this feels like the next obvious step: less “help me type” and more “please do this while I watch nervously.” The agent model sounds powerful, but in practice it’s still a lot of supervision, retries, and quiet hope it doesn’t hallucinate itself into a refactor I didn’t ask for.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by samstokes »

Bit of a buried lede:

> For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free

Is this the first free frontier coding agent? (I know there have been OSS coding agents for years, but not Codex/Claude Code.)

Re: The Codex App

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Post by blueaquilae »

This is an ode to opencode and how openai, very strangely, is just porting layout and feature of real open-source.

So much valuation, so much intern competetion and shenanigans than the creatives left.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by motbus3 »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #101
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…

I have the $20 a month subscription for ChatGPT and the $200/year subscription to Claude (company reimbursed). I have yet to hit usage limits with Codex. I continuously reach it with Claude. I use them both the same way - hands on the wheel and very interactive, small changes and tell them both to update a file to keep up with what’s done and what to do as I test. Codex gets caught in a loop more often trying to fix…

I will say that doing small modifications or asking a bunch of stuff fills the context the same in my observations. It depends on your codebase and the rest of stuff you use (sub agents, skills, etc)

I was once minimising the changes and trying to take the max of it. I did an uncountable numbers of tests and and variations. Didn't really matter much if I told it to do it all or change one line. I feel Claude code tries to fill the context as fast as possible anyway

I am not sure how worth Claude is right now. I still prefer that rather than codex, but I am starting to feel that's just a bias

Re: The Codex App

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Post by rubslopes »

To me, the obvious next step for these companies is to integrate their products with web hosting. At this point, the remaining hurdle for non-developers is deploying their creations to the cloud with built-in monetization.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by kurtis_reed »

romainhuet wrote: post #62
vzaliva wrote: post #28

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!

Let me guess, you use MacOS yourself?

Re: The Codex App

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Post by desireco42 »

It keeps offering me to "Get Plus" even though I am signed and already have a Plus plan.

Codex really grown on me lately. I re-signed to try it out on a project I have and it turned out to be really great addition to my toolkit.

It isn't always perfect and it's cli (how I mostly use it) isn't as sophisticated as OpenCode which is my default.

I am happy with this app, I am using Superset, terminal app which suprisingly is well positioned to help you if you work in cli like I do. But like I said, new desktop app seems like a solid addition.

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