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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 iamjs »

reassess_blind wrote: post #30

Is there a native way to work remotely with Claude/Codex on a local folder or git repo on your main machine without having to connect it to GitHub? For creating apps for personal use I’d rather just keep the files local. Edit: Running into issues setting it up on Windows. There's no "/remote-control" command in the CLI, so I installed the Windows Codex app. Then I updated the iOS app which now has the "Codex" feature…

I think the `/remote-control` feature does this, if I understand you correctly.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by ssl-3 »

thornewolf wrote: post #24
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.

there is something "wrong" with the ux that is hard to pin down. these things generate even text summaries more rapidly than i can read them. i need a better method for dumping info into my brain + dynamic control (if necessary)

When I take time to read all of the output, I often find that it's mostly noise. I don't like noise so I usually don't bother.

But a person can use subagents, if they want, to filter that down. This burns tokens in a big hurry, but I think subagents can be arbitrary local commands (eg, a local LLM).

Or, you know: Just slow down. :) It doesn't always have to be a race, does it?

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by DonsDiscountGas »

iamjs wrote: post #31
reassess_blind wrote: post #30

Is there a native way to work remotely with Claude/Codex on a local folder or git repo on your main machine without having to connect it to GitHub? For creating apps for personal use I’d rather just keep the files local. Edit: Running into issues setting it up on Windows. There's no "/remote-control" command in the CLI, so I installed the Windows Codex app. Then I updated the iOS app which now has the "Codex" feature…

I think the `/remote-control` feature does this, if I understand you correctly.

It's supposed to. I've always found it buggy and unreliable but maybe that's just me. (This command exists in Claude btw not sure about Codex)

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by aiscoming »

jumploops wrote: post #22

I’ve been using Codex from my phone for the past couple of months (through a tunnel, not this app). I was initially quite excited, but I’ve found the results are less than great compared to being at a keyboard. Something about the smaller screen size and/or lack of keyboard causes me to direct the agent less, which in turn creates more tech debt/code churn/etc. Maybe I’m just showing my age, and I should practice voi…

the ums are exactly the sign that you speak much faster than you type, so you need a pause for your thoughts to catch up

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by replwoacause »

osiris970 wrote: post #29
Rover222 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's free for about 2 useful requests and then you have to upgrade or wait?

So basically a 20$ Claude plan lmao

I stopped using my Claude subscription because it became so prohibitive. Back to ChatGPT and Codex full time and been pretty happy. I miss the tone/writing style of Claude, but don't miss the frustration of being told I've reached my plan limits in a comically short amount of time.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by impulser_ »

Say what you want about OpenAI, but their software is actually pretty dam good especially compared to Anthropic and Google. Anthropic is just sloppy, and Google just doesn't live on this planet.

Both of the Codex apps are very good.

I tried this out and it works significantly better than Claude's remote control in fact the first few times I tried Claude's remote control it didn't even work and to this day is very buggy.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by barrkel »

reassess_blind wrote: post #30

Is there a native way to work remotely with Claude/Codex on a local folder or git repo on your main machine without having to connect it to GitHub? For creating apps for personal use I’d rather just keep the files local. Edit: Running into issues setting it up on Windows. There's no "/remote-control" command in the CLI, so I installed the Windows Codex app. Then I updated the iOS app which now has the "Codex" feature…

This is what /remote-control does in Claude Code, once it's running on your main machine. You can open it up in the phone app.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by rovr138 »

DonsDiscountGas wrote: post #33
iamjs wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the `/remote-control` feature does this, if I understand you correctly.

It's supposed to. I've always found it buggy and unreliable but maybe that's just me. (This command exists in Claude btw not sure about Codex)

You can also connect remotely. Tailscale to connect to your network/machine. Then use SSH to login. Then use tmux to persist the session even if you log out.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by tekacs »

embedding-shape wrote: post #23
tekacs wrote: post #14

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). They might just not have cut a new build yet, today. It 'works' on master, but the mobile app thinks that your build is outdated (v0.0.0) if you build from master without overriding version, so probably easiest to wait until they cut a build if they haven't.

> 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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