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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 michelb »

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.

The entire UI/UX? We went back in time and basically have a text streamer in a 70's style terminal or existing editor-like situation. If you want to read and (hand)write code, sure, you might be done and be happy with the new variant of what you had decades ago.

A UI like Jira/Trello to stage features and see (agentic)team status. A Figma-like UX to actually build out the app/interface/features. A system that aids human review. There's tons of paradigms to explore and improve upon.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

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 "…

For major new features on my SaaS this is exactly what I do on my phone/laptop sometimes over days or weeks. I never look at the code until I get a feeling that it's far enough along and then I will hop into the actual code and start manually making changes or using CC locally to make the changes iteratively over weeks until it's ready for release. In the early stages of a major new feature/product it can be counterproductive to closely monitor the AI. Of course like you said in your comment this requires very very strong knowledge of the code base and a lot of experience with using the agents in the first place. But once you can do this sort of workflow it's very powerful because you can do this in parallel with other work (just an hour or two per day over a week or two on your phone can get you to a really good first draft even on a major new feature/product. And of course I'm not saying it's ready for production that can still take weeks but that's not really the point)

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by [deleted] »

tekacs wrote: post #40
embedding-shape wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can do this from the CLI - `codex remote-control` works on Linux (I have no affiliation, just something I noticed). Woah, hadn't seen this before! Off-topic, how long compile times do people have for codex-rs in openai/codex? Even my very beefy computer takes like 30 minutes to compile in release mode, makes me wonder why it's so slow and how this TUI got so large. But then I remember, agents like to write a lo…

Try turning off LTO. Their default codex-rs/Cargo.toml uses `lto = "fat"`, which is... expensive and slow and... you really really don't need it for a local build that you're not distributing. In my experience, although the build is a little slow, it's that LTO step that takes a million years.

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Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by cryozero »

hamza_q_ wrote: post #80
20kleagues wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, what issues did you face with remote control on claude? I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well (bar the issues when my Mac would sleep and then the session would disconnect, but that's an issue on my end).

Made a menu bar app you may find useful for MacBook sleep prevention, even when the lid is closed: https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil

Hey buddy, I submitted a pull request to you to support Intel chips

https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil/pull/3

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by tasuki »

sumedh wrote: post #184
tasuki wrote: 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.

Yes, and there are two entirely unrelated reasons for that:

1. It appears no one's using it.

2. Google.

It makes me sad though. This is how I want agents to work!

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by noisy_boy »

firesteelrain wrote: post #79
Alifatisk wrote: post #3

Whats crazier is that Codex is free. I thought I had to pay to even try it out but nope, you can use the desktop app or cli for free, its apparently included in the free plan. You just have to sign in to your ChatGPT account. Of course I am aware that the caveat here is that all my interaction is part of training, but I’m fine with that. Even Qwen Cli discontinued the free plan.

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

Compaction is basically seamless which is a major weak point of Claude. At effort=low, Claude is better than codex but still slower. If you don't mind trading the upfront quality of work with additional micromanaging but at a faster speed, it is fine. I also think because of that very reason, you absorb more of the code.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by upcoming-sesame »

tasuki wrote: 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!

because you can't rely on anything from them same for Antigravity, feels abandoned

only surprising product that feels non google for me is Google Stitch https://stitch.withgoogle.com/

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by paulcole »

andai wrote: post #177
bugbuddy wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 befo…

> Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work

This is just like everyone who says, “An iPad is not suitable for serious work.”

By which they (and you) generally mean, “What I do is serious work. What you do is unserious work.”

I think I do serious work – I mean they pay me for it? And I have only copy/pasted and just run whatever code’s been generated by AI for the past 12 months or so. Whenever I can I just let the AI run it itself.

Sad to learn that I’ve been so unserious all this time.

> Naming things is hard!

Indeed.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by mettamage »

ggsp wrote: post #113
stldev wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched some time after Anthropic bricked their models with adaptive thinking. It's a legit mystery to me how people are still using CC professionally. Codex is far less frustrating and manages context better. It's also costing me about 1/3rd as much as Opus 4.7 on CC.

The only way to keep using CC for me has been to stick to 4.6 1M

Oh I didn't know you could type /model claude-opus-4-6 and still use it.

Thanks!

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