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Why would they write this in electron instead of something closer to the metal I thought this is the whole point of AI.
Because electron gets shit done? Aside the memory usage, electron/browser based applications of any complexity tend to be better and develop a lot faster.
What's the benefit of working with this app, which eats insane amounts of memory, instead of Codex CLI?
Latex rendering, inline images, inline browser showing what it's clicking on, being able to view a spreadsheet and then select a region to reference in the conversation, clickable links when it references a specific line number with mouse-over previews, interactive inline visualisations. There's probably more I don't remember too. In my opinion TUI apps are just silly. You don't get any of the advantages of it being…
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Do you have a link for those docs? I either missed that, or it seemed like a too complex feature. One of the issues with this new trend of vibecoding a million features, is that the (vibecoded) docs are labrynths of new features, and features that are deprecated or redundant with 2 month younger features.
It’s here: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/remote-connections But I can’t tell from these docs if the ChatGPT desktop app needs to remain running on your macOS/Windows host as a proxy, or if you can directly SSH from your phone to your Linux box with just Codex CLI.
When I tried it a couple of months ago, the CLI version didn't have that feature, it's only present on the desktop app. The docs you linked seem to confirm this:
>In the ChatGPT mobile app, open Remote to work with ChatGPT or Codex chats on a connected Mac or Windows device.
>Start in the ChatGPT desktop app on the host you want to connect.
>Open the ChatGPT desktop app on the host. Go to Settings > Connections > Control this Mac or PC,
Then there's the SSH thing
>Use an SSH host or managed remote development environment when the project already lives in a remote environment. Connect the desktop app host to that environment first;
>For SSH setup details, see connect to an SSH host.
At this point I feel that I need to combine it with other experimental vibecoded features? And the end result would be something that I can hack together with some ddns reverse polling thing. I know I can download an ssh terminal to my phone and connect to my computer by either opening a port, or doing some wacky network stuff. I don't see the value add in doing that by adding the commands I would have to run to some openai config file yaml like
> ssh-tunnel: tailscale > port: 8411
instead of making a bash script with
> tailscale -p 8411
tl;dr: The feature is desktop app dependent, and the desktop app is now on linux, rejoice
For someone who has not tried these desktop apps: what is the the advantage versus cli codex with some MPCs and multiple folders each one with their context files?
The same as an OS with a UI. Discoverability, fewer actions per activity, easier navigation, faster to learn/lower skill floor, etc. Some highlights: 1. Much better multi-agent orchestration. The app supervises many agents, with different project views and built-in git worktrees, so agents can work on isolated copies of the same repo. It's easy to jump between tasks and see changes. I recall OpenAI wrote that CLI was…
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Qt is as solid as it gets. It's very, very high quality. Much higher quality than Microsoft's frameworks on Windows.
Indeed! I wrote my note-taking app with a block editor (like Notion) in Qt with QML for the UI and C++ for the logic and it's been an incredible experience![1] [1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
Sitting at 2.2GB of combined resident RAM across 11 processes. I haven't done a single query yet.
Surely they can just vibe is down to a reasonable footprint, right? Right?
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I see you never worked in enterprise consulting with either laptops or cloud VMs managed by customer IT, and where elevated actions require either IT tickets, or elevation tools with description fields why the operation is required, with development done with specific team accounts.
Why would anyone lack enough dignity to sign up for working in that kind of environment? I would rather live in a shopping cart tent under a bridge.
Sitting at 2.2GB of combined resident RAM across 11 processes. I haven't done a single query yet.