Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

Post by WASDx » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 9:52 AM UTC

margorczynski wrote: post #33

WASDx wrote: post #26

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I upgraded my workflow a few months ago from "copy-paste things in and out of ChatGPT" to "use an agent that edits my project files and runs tests on its own" and the ergonomics are just so much better and enables automating bigger tasks. I still monitor everything it does and do manual adjustments so I feel ownership of the code.

But isn't that use-case solved a harness like OpenCode or Codex? OpenClaw and Hermes are a bit different beast although they can also be used for development in a more holistic manner (e.g. automated GUI testing). I'm just wondering about other uses where such a system would be useful aside from asking it via Signal or WA for the weather.

Post by rawland » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 9:53 AM UTC

couscouspie wrote: post #60

rawland wrote: post #48

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pi.dev, local model, (RAG-ed) copy of archwiki. You are more able than you believe. Already now, no permission needed.

How is Hermes different in that regard? Also note, that RAG and even vector search are more paths of the early days that didn't prove too valuable. Just let your agent search it directly and optionally create an index as a default entrypoint for common topics.

Post by schafberg » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 9:54 AM UTC

linzhangrun wrote: post #55

I tried it yesterday. The experience seems smoother than on Windows. I hope Computer Use will be added soon. Also, when will OpenAI fix the issue where Xhigh and Ultra are both translated as “极高” in Chinese? It’s been this way for quite some time. As far as I know, the proportion of Chinese employees at these Silicon Valley AI companies is quite high.

Post by SweetSoftPillow » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 9:57 AM UTC

linzhangrun wrote: post #55

I tried it yesterday. The experience seems smoother than on Windows. I hope Computer Use will be added soon. Also, when will OpenAI fix the issue where Xhigh and Ultra are both translated as “极高” in Chinese? It’s been this way for quite some time. As far as I know, the proportion of Chinese employees at these Silicon Valley AI companies is quite high.

Post by embedding-shape » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 9:59 AM UTC

perching_aix wrote: post #30

cloudie78 wrote: post #25

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.