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Reminder to everyone, treat these as trojans. Run them isolated from the rest of your system. Give it a full desktop in a VM if you want to, just not direct access to your system.
They ship with their own sandboxing by default, and Codex specifically is open source.
What's the benefit of working with this app, which eats insane amounts of memory, instead of Codex CLI?
What's the benefit of working with this app, which eats insane amounts of memory, instead of Codex CLI?
Tabs for long-running often-compacted sessions is a difference I've noticed in emergent UX.
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Literally everything from generic coding agent to shopping. I run it in a MacOS vm, fwiw, for certain tasks. I usually hand it a repo and say “install all build dependencies” and it’ll click through installation GUIs where necessary. I wonder if the TOS of an application is enforceable if a bot agreed and a human never saw it. It can UI test web apps if that’s part of your job, but it can also just use the browser fo…
> Literally everything from generic coding agent to shopping. People need help with shopping now?
For serious stuff, is part of the shopping flow.
A senior engineer in an Open Source project told me "I haven't looked at code in months"
In which case what TF is it you even do ?
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Honestly, you're missing out. The productivity gains I've had with these tools is unbelievable. I understand the risk though, so if you've got government sensitive data on your computer, or no backups, don't use the "full access" option. Babysit what it does instead.
Isn't it expensive, though? If you let it perform gui or web tasks for you using vision, I'd think it consumes lots of tokens.
Or if you are doing full time development then you just need to pony up for the 20x tier if you want to use it.
Running Codex locally removes so much friction and is so fast compared to either running it on the web (where it has to build environments online etc which consumes time) or compared to copy-pasting chatgpt that it's just a no-brainer.
Reminder to everyone, treat these as trojans. Run them isolated from the rest of your system. Give it a full desktop in a VM if you want to, just not direct access to your system.
How do I get it to fix my Bluetooth if I do that? If you've been AI-pilled, 2026 is the year of Linux desktop because instead of dicking around with config files, I can just tell AI to fix python.
What's the benefit of working with this app, which eats insane amounts of memory, instead of Codex CLI?
I'm only familiar with the Anthropic equivalent, but the cognitive load is different as opposed to necessarily better or worse. I have friends who prefer mousing around the UI. Tabs for long-running often-compacted sessions is a difference I've noticed in emergent UX.
Reminder to everyone, treat these as trojans. Run them isolated from the rest of your system. Give it a full desktop in a VM if you want to, just not direct access to your system.
How do I get it to fix my Bluetooth if I do that? If you've been AI-pilled, 2026 is the year of Linux desktop because instead of dicking around with config files, I can just tell AI to fix python.