I really want to like the native Mac app aesthetic but I kinda hate it. It screams minimalist but also clearly tells me it’s not meant for a power user. That ruggedness and sensitivity is missing.
The Codex App
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#22Built an open source lightweight version of this that works with any cli agent: https://github.com/built-by-as/FleetCode
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#23The inclusion of a live vibe-coded game on the webpage is fun, except the game barely works and it's odd they didn't attempt any polish/QA for what is ostensibly a PR announcement. It just adds more fuel to the fire to the argument that vibecoding results in AI slop.
To be fair the premise is that they 1 shotted it. I'd just be suspicious if it were any better (the POC is that is just about works)
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#24Is there any marked difference or benefit over Claude Code?
It’s possible to run up to 4 agents at once vs. Claude Code’s single thread. Sometimes I’ll find meaningful quality differences between what agents produce.
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#25It's basically what Emdash ( https://www.emdash.sh/ ), Conductor ( https://www.conductor.build/ ) & CO have been building but as first class product from OpenAI. Begs the question if Anthropic will follow up with a first-class Claude Code "multi agent" (git worktree) app themselves.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop
oh i didn't know that claude code has a desktop app already
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#26> and we're doubling the rate limits on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans.
I love competition
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#27Maybe it's because I'm not used to the flow, but I prefer to work directly on the machine where I'm logged in via ssh, instead of working "somewhere in a git tree", and then have to deploy/test/etc.
Once this app (or a similar app by Anthropic) will allow me to have the same level of "orchestration" but on a remote machine, I'll test it.
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#28How about us, Linux users? This is Mac only. Do they plan to support CLI version with all the features they are adding to desktop app?
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#29> We're also excited to show more people what's now possible with Codex . For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free and Go, and we're doubling the rate limits on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. Translated from Marketingspeak, this is presumably "we're also desperate for some people to actually use it because everyone shrugged and went back to Claude Code when we released it".
Yeah this is clearly just a marketing re-release but if they've executed well i'm happy to try it
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#30> "Localize my app and add the option to change units"
To me this still feels like the wrong way to interact with a coding agent. Does this lead people to success? I've never seen it not go off the rails in some way unless you provide clear boundaries as to what the scope of the expected change is. It's gonna write code if you don't even want it to yet, it's gonna write the test first or the logic first, whichever you don't want it to do. It'll be much too verbose or much too hacky, etc.