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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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(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.

Unbelievable. This is the silent de-skilling of this industry.

Imagine saying that you don't need to look at the roads or have no hands on the wheel whilst driving because someone-else said that the car can 'drive' itself; therefore, no need for anyone (including taxi drivers) to learn how to drive.

Just because a machine can generate plausible looking code does not mean you don't need to look at it or not know how it works or why it doesn't work.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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The right way to do this is Google Jules: the boundary is a git repository, the interface is a chat window you can open anywhere (yes, even simultaneously), the output is a diff you can choose to merge.

But, for whatever reason, no one uses Google Jules.

I don't want my phone to have the ability to execute things on my computer. Much less with a LLM in-between!

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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post #182

The right way to do this is Google Jules: the boundary is a git repository, the interface is a chat window you can open anywhere (yes, even simultaneously), the output is a diff you can choose to merge. But, for whatever reason, no one uses Google Jules. I don't want my phone to have the ability to execute things on my computer. Much less with a LLM in-between!

Google might shut it down soon.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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I wish they'd have done this in a separate Codex app. On desktop I greatly prefer having Codex separate from ChatGPT... As compared to Claude, which is growing so fast and adding features so quickly it seems bolted together (I get why they do it, integrations/MCP-wise). This specific feature is more akin to Remote Control in Claude. You could already kick off Codex Cloud tasks (although it's just a little more fiddly…

OpenAi wants non devs to start coding as well, its just going to confuse users when there are two Apps.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

#186

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.

You can run Codex Desktop on Linux. It's on AUR already. Granted, just a repacked ASAR from Windows version but still does work quite well. Haven't tested connection to mobile yet but the integration with cloud environments already works.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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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.

I have not had problems with long goals. I let it chomp for 40 minutes on a proof in my custom theorem prover (xhigh fast), and it got there. Very happy with Codex, I ditched Claude for it.
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