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Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by Razengan »

ssl-3 wrote: post #75
Razengan wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

on Codex I ran into limits maybe like 2 times in 3 months, after doing several "upgrade this experimental game to my latest shared framework" passes on 5.5 Extra High

On which plan? I can go through a 5-hour limit with a $20/mo Plus subscription in a few minutes with 5.5 Extra High. This causes me to reserve the latest/best rev for the harder problems. 5.5 really does seem to be very superior to 5.4, but it's also very expensive to run: The gas gauge moves fast . It's not very clearly defined whether 5.5 will cost less to get a problem solved quickly, or if a bunch of automatic it…

The standard $20 plan, on my existing Godot code: https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot

Most of those commits since the last few months are thanks to Codex reviews (but the code is not AI generated): 5.5 since it came out, and 5.4 etc before that, almost always on Extra High because it's for a framework that underlies the other stuff I do so I want make to sure everything's correct.

Sometimes I have to run multiple passes on the same task: I rarely continue any session beyond 4-5 prompts to avoid "bloat" or accumulate "stale context", so sometimes Codex finds different stuff in subsequent reviews of the same file/subsystem.

The project is modular enough where each file can be considered standalone with only 1-2 dependencies, and I already used to write a lot of comments everywhere (something some people laughed at), so maybe that helps the AI along?

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by skybrian »

nextaccountic wrote: post #127
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 "…

But what if the code is on my laptop? Alongside the tools needed to work with it Case in point, I have a Rust project with a target/ directory with about 10GB. Compile times from scratch takes about 10 minutes. (I do not love this) With this mobile app I need to upload the code to the cloud, right? Or does OpenAI expects me to compile huge projects on my phone?

I tried Codex web. It kinda sucks and OpenAI doesn't seem to be promoting it? Look elsewhere if you want a Linux VM in the cloud. (I quite like exe.dev and they do have good mobile support.)

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by satvikpendem »

jumploops wrote: post #105
keyle wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I follow, you develop code on a remote machine by speaking to your phone and are unimpressed by the result?

It's not that I'm unimpressed by the results, it's that I think I'm saving time by pushing the agent along remotely, but the reality is that my messages to the agent(s) end up being a lot shorter, which inevitably leaves more up for interpretation. Don't get me wrong, I still use Codex (and sometimes Claude Code) remotely every day, and am overall excited for this release, it's just that the benefit wasn't as high as…

Just...write longer messages. Maybe it is age but I've written huge forum such as on HN all from my phone often with multiple tabs open to source various links for foot notes. When I type for an LLM, I will type a lot too if needed and will often even type a little, wait to think, then continue, over the course of like 15 minutes even, so that the intention of the prompt is correct since that saves much more time and produces better results than shorter messages.

I think you just need to type more rather than feeling constricted, as it's actually a form of liberation, to produce (or have an AI produce, whatever) something from wherever you are rather than needing to sit down on a laptop where you're gonna be waiting around anyway.

What tunnel setup do you use by the way? I'm on Android so it's kind of annoying all the LLM remote coding apps are iOS only.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by satvikpendem »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #125
charlie90 wrote: post #121

Nice. Next step is giving codex/Claude Code local device control...problem is the current ios/android are so locked down that agents can't do much ...but the space is so ripe for disruption that I bet we'll see AI-native devices coming out within the next few years that allow agents to interact with everything. I would be nervous if I were apple right now.

I’d finally have a use case for my overpowered iPad if it could compile and run code

Now how would Apple get that sweet Mac money if you could do everything from your iPad? And that's exactly why they artificially segment those devices.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by satvikpendem »

ukuina wrote: post #54
iridione wrote: post #20

This is neat! Now I'm curious, what's left to innovate in the coding agent space? Sure there are the usual suspects like maintenance, security, reliability and other scalability improvements and looks like they will be addressed in the next year or two.

Is texting your Coding Agent really the final form? Something that watches your interactions or process execution to surface improvements, or whips up prototypes while you brainstorm seems like the next step.

Not sure why this was flagged, this makes sense but only if inference gets sufficiently cheap. It would be awesome to see a bunch of interactive prototypes and iterate on the UX before ever building the full app. Historically that's been somewhat difficult even with UX designers.
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