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Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by lxgr »

kubb wrote: post #208
pickleRick243 wrote: post #124

(Someone deleted a comment about why you'd want a mobile Codex app. This is the answer I wrote.) Once you've used these coding agents a lot, you develop a pretty intuitive feel for how they work, what they're capable of, what they're good at, and where their weaknesses are. Hopefully, you're already pretty familiar with the code base you're working on. Combining the two, this means you can get quite far essentially "…

So, the same thing we've all been doing already with Termius and Tailscale, just locked into ChatGPT?

Yes, in the same sense as Dropbox offers essentially no functionality on top of a rsync script.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by chris_money202 »

I prefer GitHub Copilot Agent Session for this flow since it's in its own container/VM naturally and you can spawn from the Github Mobile app, except it is a bummer how much of your actions minutes that and CI/CD will consume.

If I were to do this Codex flow I would want to have it setup in a dev container, most people are probably not going to do that, so we are going to see a lot of vulnerabilities introduced / computers "breaking". Breaking in quotes because the computer is not actually broken, but to a novice it might appear it is, when in reality it's just out of disk space or the agent executed a setting, it shouldn't have. Unfortunately, if the computer is out of disk space, a novice won't be able to spawn their coding agent to fix it, so their next logical course of action is Geek Squad/IT? I don't even know.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by jatora »

chris_money202 wrote: post #252

I prefer GitHub Copilot Agent Session for this flow since it's in its own container/VM naturally and you can spawn from the Github Mobile app, except it is a bummer how much of your actions minutes that and CI/CD will consume. If I were to do this Codex flow I would want to have it setup in a dev container, most people are probably not going to do that, so we are going to see a lot of vulnerabilities introduced / com…

No we won't see that because the whole 'broke my computer' trope pretty much never happens to people unless they are researchers going wild in a VM to trigger it. And pure novices are just... not using these tools, and when they do, at most they lose a spreadsheet. (and that hardly happens either, if at all)

This is a non-issue problem raised by anti-ai zealots, much like data center water use is overblown. Headlines and lies.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by jatora »

ggsp wrote: post #113
stldev wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched some time after Anthropic bricked their models with adaptive thinking. It's a legit mystery to me how people are still using CC professionally. Codex is far less frustrating and manages context better. It's also costing me about 1/3rd as much as Opus 4.7 on CC.

The only way to keep using CC for me has been to stick to 4.6 1M

The best way is to code in a way that doesnt break via model instruction nuances changing. 4.7 is superior

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by chris_money202 »

jatora wrote: post #253
chris_money202 wrote: post #252

I prefer GitHub Copilot Agent Session for this flow since it's in its own container/VM naturally and you can spawn from the Github Mobile app, except it is a bummer how much of your actions minutes that and CI/CD will consume. If I were to do this Codex flow I would want to have it setup in a dev container, most people are probably not going to do that, so we are going to see a lot of vulnerabilities introduced / com…

No we won't see that because the whole 'broke my computer' trope pretty much never happens to people unless they are researchers going wild in a VM to trigger it. And pure novices are just... not using these tools, and when they do, at most they lose a spreadsheet. (and that hardly happens either, if at all) This is a non-issue problem raised by anti-ai zealots, much like data center water use is overblown. Headlines…

I am an engineer and just the other day forgot to set a disk quota on a container I gave an agent and it almost reached disk space running a simulation that was logging to a DB overnight. If that would have happened I probably would have lost ability to ssh and that computer isn't connected to a display or keyboard so would have been a huge headache for me to reset.

And novices ARE absolutely using these things, I have a handful of friends with 0 CS background using claude to write apps, automation, etc

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by chris_money202 »

chris_money202 wrote: post #255
jatora wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No we won't see that because the whole 'broke my computer' trope pretty much never happens to people unless they are researchers going wild in a VM to trigger it. And pure novices are just... not using these tools, and when they do, at most they lose a spreadsheet. (and that hardly happens either, if at all) This is a non-issue problem raised by anti-ai zealots, much like data center water use is overblown. Headlines…

I am an engineer and just the other day forgot to set a disk quota on a container I gave an agent and it almost reached disk space running a simulation that was logging to a DB overnight. If that would have happened I probably would have lost ability to ssh and that computer isn't connected to a display or keyboard so would have been a huge headache for me to reset. And novices ARE absolutely using these things, I ha…

Also to drive this point home I've had claude suggest no password sudo before, some people are going to blindly accept that on a computer that also has access to accounts. Making that computer very vulnerable.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by joquarky »

boodleboodle wrote: post #94

Could Codex CLI get this support also? I am sure a lot of us are running remote linux machines with Nvidia GPUs, with codex CLI running

I got it to connect by starting codex CLI with

`codex remote-control`

but it seems to be limited/sandboxed to a specific directory.

In my case, I run all coding agents under a specific user, `agent`, and when I access it over remote from my phone, I seem to be limited to the working directory `/var/lib/agent/Documents/Code` with no obvious way to change this.

It won't let me go to my existing project directories (including the directory where I started `codex remote-control`).

I haven't tried symbolic links or anything complicated yet, as this is mostly just a novelty to me.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by gropo »

pickleRick243 wrote: post #124

(Someone deleted a comment about why you'd want a mobile Codex app. This is the answer I wrote.) Once you've used these coding agents a lot, you develop a pretty intuitive feel for how they work, what they're capable of, what they're good at, and where their weaknesses are. Hopefully, you're already pretty familiar with the code base you're working on. Combining the two, this means you can get quite far essentially "…

I wrote tmux-browse on GitHub in order to use codex and Claude code in a browser pane.

https://github.com/itsmygithubacct/tmux-browse

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by gropo »

gropo wrote: post #259
pickleRick243 wrote: post #124

(Someone deleted a comment about why you'd want a mobile Codex app. This is the answer I wrote.) Once you've used these coding agents a lot, you develop a pretty intuitive feel for how they work, what they're capable of, what they're good at, and where their weaknesses are. Hopefully, you're already pretty familiar with the code base you're working on. Combining the two, this means you can get quite far essentially "…

I wrote tmux-browse on GitHub in order to use codex and Claude code in a browser pane. https://github.com/itsmygithubacct/tmux-browse

Side effect: manage the same session on your cellphone as is running on your server
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