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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 scrollaway »

bugbuddy wrote: post #166
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 "…

> i.e. not looking at the actual code You must be kidding me.

I find funny the trend of software engineers being shocked at the idea that someone would issue a set of instructions to a coder and not look at the code, or only glance at it.

How do you think the world has worked for the past thirty years? AI has just caught up with human skill is all.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by arend321 »

I've been trying out various mobile, ai-assisted coding workflows.

Packing a Linux mini-pc in my rucksack, connected to display glasses, and voice-to-text with handy. Voice to text gets injected into a remote (Docker) codex session, running a hot reload web stack. I prompt to implement various features in an existing code base, where codex understands the structure and requirements. If a feature is done, I take a moment to inspect the results on the display glasses, then move onto the next feature or keep iterating. It's not perfect, but I was able to implement a couple of not too complex features while walking my local national park. The display glasses have a built-in 4-microphone array, and solid speakers. No need for a bulky headset or earbuds. Glasses come with monochromatic dimming, you can easily switch between dimming and see through.

If this comes with Linux integration, I will certainly give it a try.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by andai »

GTonehour wrote: post #158

This feature could well be the reason OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw).

That was my thought too. Claude Code and Codex are very close to Claw already (general purpose computer use) and moving increasingly in that direction (mobile integrations, built in memory features etc.)

The main issue is reliability, so I think the corporations are going to take a much more gradual, piecemeal approach, and probably end up with something like Claw within a year.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by andai »

andy12_ wrote: post #164
pickleRick243 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the phone connects to your local device. This isn't "codex web" on mobile. Basically you work through your desktop on your phone. So to be clear, there are security risks (you can wipe your entire desktop from your phone).

Not if you use Linux; app not available yet.

The announcement doesn't make this very clear, but I think this talks to the Codex CLI, not the Codex App? (Or possibly both)

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by oulipo2 »

> Start investigating a bug while waiting for your coffee.

So the whole idea is not to make work more efficient. It's just to make you work more, all the time, while waiting for your coffee, while in your commute.

Ask yourselves: is that the society we want?

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by andai »

bugbuddy wrote: post #166
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 "…

> i.e. not looking at the actual code You must be kidding me.

> There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work. However, OP said in the following paragraph, that this would be a first draft, and that the code would actually be reviewed and tested properly before being integrated.

At which point it is by definition no longer vibe coding, because you do care about the code! It's just an AI assisted workflow, but now we call all of those vibe coding for some reason. (Naming things is hard!)

If vibe coding means not caring about the code, then a literal translation of the term would be "not caring about coding" coding.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by andy12_ »

andai wrote: post #175
andy12_ wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not if you use Linux; app not available yet.

The announcement doesn't make this very clear, but I think this talks to the Codex CLI, not the Codex App? (Or possibly both)

For now it appears that it talks only to the Codex App. Some users in this thread are saying that apparently the Codex CLI will support it on the next official release.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by ymolodtsov »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #83
firesteelrain wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much better is it than Claude? I have both but Claude sucks up so many tokens.

5.5 is absolutely comparable to opus 4.7 (both on highest effort), maybe even better. It generally seems less lazy, faster, and writes code closer to what I'd write. The only downside is that for very very long tasks, it can kind of lose track of the goal. For tasks under ten minutes I'll go with codex every time.

The main difference is in the frontend skills. GPT produces terrible design. What I do these days is ask Opus to produce an HTML mockup, then feed it to Codex.
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