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Re: The Codex App

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Post by falloutx »

_ea1k wrote: post #138
samstokes wrote: post #125

Bit of a buried lede: > For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free Is this the first free frontier coding agent? (I know there have been OSS coding agents for years, but not Codex/Claude Code.)

That depends on whether Gemini CLI counts. I've had generally bad experiences with it, but it is free for at least some usage.

Google also has aistudio.google.com which is Lovable competitor and its free for unlimited use. That seems to work so much better than gemini CLI even on similar tasks

Re: The Codex App

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Post by petesergeant »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #101
strongpigeon wrote: post #5

Genuinely excited to try this out. I've started using Codex much more heavily in the past two months and honestly, it's been shockingly good. Not perfect mind you, but it keeps impressing me with what it's able to "get". It often gets stuff wrong, and at times runs with faulty assumptions, but overall it's no worse than having average L3-L4 engs at your disposal. That being said, the app is stuck at the launch screen…

I have the $20 a month subscription for ChatGPT and the $200/year subscription to Claude (company reimbursed). I have yet to hit usage limits with Codex. I continuously reach it with Claude. I use them both the same way - hands on the wheel and very interactive, small changes and tell them both to update a file to keep up with what’s done and what to do as I test. Codex gets caught in a loop more often trying to fix…

I have a found Codex to be an exceptional code-reviewer of Claude's work.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by johnpaulkiser »

rubslopes wrote: post #128

To me, the obvious next step for these companies is to integrate their products with web hosting. At this point, the remaining hurdle for non-developers is deploying their creations to the cloud with built-in monetization.

interestingly opencode's first product was an IaC platform... seems to be where this is all going.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by falloutx »

hmate9 wrote: post #123
oompydoompy74 wrote: post #42

Looks like they forgot the part of the code editor where you can… edit code. Claude Code in Zed is about the most optimal experience I can imagine. I want the agent on the side and a code editor in the middle.

That’s not really a negative for me as I can easily jump into vscode where I already have my workspace for coding set up exactly as I like it. This being a completely separate app just to get the agentic work right is a good direction imo

Yeah but its annoying to find the file the agent just edited without any IDE/editor integration, you have to add that command which opens the file in vscode after editing.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by shevy-java »

No.

I am glad to not depend on AI. It would annoy me to no ends how it tries to assimilate everything. It's like systemd on roids in this aspect. It will swallow up more and more tasks. Granted, in a way this is saying "then it was not necessary to have this things anymore now that AI solves it all", but I am skeptical of "the praised land" here. Skynet was not trusted back in 1982 or so. I don't trust AI either.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by falloutx »

rubslopes wrote: post #128

To me, the obvious next step for these companies is to integrate their products with web hosting. At this point, the remaining hurdle for non-developers is deploying their creations to the cloud with built-in monetization.

I dont think these are made for non-devs, Lovable and other which are built for non-devs already provide hosting.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by dsiegel2275 »

shevy-java wrote: post #145

No. I am glad to not depend on AI. It would annoy me to no ends how it tries to assimilate everything. It's like systemd on roids in this aspect. It will swallow up more and more tasks. Granted, in a way this is saying "then it was not necessary to have this things anymore now that AI solves it all", but I am skeptical of "the praised land" here. Skynet was not trusted back in 1982 or so. I don't trust AI either.

Good luck.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by naiv »

theLiminator wrote: post #110
embirico wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I work on Codex) One detail you might appreciate is that we built the app with a ton of code sharing with the CLI (as core agent harness) and the VSCode extension (UI layer), so that as we improve any of those, we polish them all.

Any chance you'll enable remote development on a self-hosted machine with this app? Ie. I think the codex webapp on a self-hosted machine would be great. This is impotant when you need a beefier machine (with potentially a GPU).

Working remotely with the app would truly be great

Re: The Codex App

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Post by FeteCommuniste »

shevy-java wrote: post #145

No. I am glad to not depend on AI. It would annoy me to no ends how it tries to assimilate everything. It's like systemd on roids in this aspect. It will swallow up more and more tasks. Granted, in a way this is saying "then it was not necessary to have this things anymore now that AI solves it all", but I am skeptical of "the praised land" here. Skynet was not trusted back in 1982 or so. I don't trust AI either.

I'm the same way but I've got the gloomy sense that folks like us are about to be swept aside by the flood if we don't "adapt."

I got invites to seven AI-centered meetings late last week.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by rendleflag »

shevy-java wrote: post #145

No. I am glad to not depend on AI. It would annoy me to no ends how it tries to assimilate everything. It's like systemd on roids in this aspect. It will swallow up more and more tasks. Granted, in a way this is saying "then it was not necessary to have this things anymore now that AI solves it all", but I am skeptical of "the praised land" here. Skynet was not trusted back in 1982 or so. I don't trust AI either.

I feel the same way about using the Internet or books to code. I'd rather just have the source code so that I'm not dependent on anything other then my own brain.
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