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Re: The Codex App

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Post by Lwerewolf »

joefourier wrote: post #586
eloisant wrote: post #573

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real question is how much better are native apps compared to Electron apps. Yes that would take much disk space, but it takes 50Mb or 500Mb isn't noticeable for most users. Same goes for memory, there is a gain for sure but unless you open your system monitor you wouldn't know. So even if it's something the company could afford, is it even worth it? Also it's not just about cost but opportunity cost. If a feature…

It absolutely is noticeable the moment you have to run several of these electron “apps” at once. I have a MacBook with 16GB of RAM and I routinely run out of memory from just having Slack, Discord, Cursor, Figma, Spotify and a couple of Firefox tabs open. I went back to listening to mp3s with a native app to have enough memory to run Docker containers for my dev server. Come on, I could listen to music, program, chat…

On that note, I could also comfortably fit a couple of chat windows (skype) on a 17'' CRT (1024x768) back in those days. It's not just the "browser-based resource hog" bit that sucks - non-touch UIs have generally become way less space-efficient.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by dbbk »

jtrn wrote: post #284

People's mileage may vary, but in my instance, this was so bad that I actually got angry while trying to use it. It's slow and stupid. It does not do proper research. It does not follow instructions. It randomly decides to stop being agentic, and instead just dumps the code for me to paste. It has the extremely annoying habit of just doing stuff without understanding what I meant, making a mess, then claiming everyth…

I just want Anthropic to spend like two weeks making their own "Codex app", but with Opus.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by dbbk »

asdev wrote: post #43
samuelstros wrote: post #6

It'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.

They have Claude Code web in research preview

It still doesn't support plan mode... I'm really confused why that's so hard to do

Re: The Codex App

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Post by capl »

OlympicMarmoto wrote: post #220

It is baffling how these AI companies, with billions of dollars, cannot build native applications, even with the help of AI. From a UI perspective, these are mostly just chat apps, which are not particularly difficult to code from scratch. Before the usual excuses come about how it is impossible to build a custom UI, consider software that is orders of magnitude more complex, such as raddbg, 10x, Superluminal, Blende…

LLMs are trained on web slop, not engineering

Re: The Codex App

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Post by vel0city »

baq wrote: post #359
woah wrote: post #315

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The various GPU-accelerated terminal projects always make me chuckle

Not sure why, terminals are literally GPU accelerated text rendering solutions since the very beginning of rendering text

Heck, not even just a separate card or whatever, back in the terminal days where you practically had a whole separate small computer just to display the output of the bigger computer on a screen instead of paper.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by super256 »

eloisant wrote: post #573
gbalduzzi wrote: post #462

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It baffles me how much the discourse over native apps rarely takes this into consideration. You reduce development effort by a third, it is ok to debate whether a company so big should invest into a better product anyway but it is pretty clear why they are doing this

The real question is how much better are native apps compared to Electron apps. Yes that would take much disk space, but it takes 50Mb or 500Mb isn't noticeable for most users. Same goes for memory, there is a gain for sure but unless you open your system monitor you wouldn't know. So even if it's something the company could afford, is it even worth it? Also it's not just about cost but opportunity cost. If a feature…

Also, modern native UIs became looking garbage on desktops / laptops, where you usually want a high information density.

Just look at this TreeView in WinUI2 (w/ fluent design) vs a TreeView in the good old event viewer. It just wastes SO MUCH space!

https://f003.backblazeb2.com/file/sharexxx/ShareX/2026/02/mm...

And imo it's just so much easier to write a webapp, than fiddle with WinUI. Of course you can still build on MFC or Win32, but meh.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by k__ »

OlympicMarmoto wrote: post #220

It is baffling how these AI companies, with billions of dollars, cannot build native applications, even with the help of AI. From a UI perspective, these are mostly just chat apps, which are not particularly difficult to code from scratch. Before the usual excuses come about how it is impossible to build a custom UI, consider software that is orders of magnitude more complex, such as raddbg, 10x, Superluminal, Blende…

Anthropic bought Bun and it's creator relentlessly optimizes Claude Code now.

So, there seems to be light.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by ioasuncvinvaer »

SPICLK2 wrote: post #555
icoder wrote: post #537

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Especially given how fast things progress, timeline and performance are a tradeoff where I'd say swaying things in favour of the latter is not per definition net positive.

There's another benefit - you don't have to keep refactoring to keep up with "progress"!

Of course you do!

Microsoft makes a new UI framework every couple of years, liquid glass from apple and gnome has a new gtk version every so often.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by LucasBrandt »

OlympicMarmoto wrote: post #220

It is baffling how these AI companies, with billions of dollars, cannot build native applications, even with the help of AI. From a UI perspective, these are mostly just chat apps, which are not particularly difficult to code from scratch. Before the usual excuses come about how it is impossible to build a custom UI, consider software that is orders of magnitude more complex, such as raddbg, 10x, Superluminal, Blende…

It's amazing to me that in the official Gemini app on Android, the hamburger menu on the left does not open on swipe - only if you click the hamburger button. A basic native UI interaction in the home screen of one of Google's flagship apps.
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