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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 firesteelrain »

dmd wrote: post #62
replwoacause wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Using these prompts/steering[0], setting Base style to Friendly, Warm to More, Enthusiastic to Default, Headers, Lists, and Emoji to Less, I have found I can get gpt-5.5 about ... 80% of the way there to writing as non-annoyingly as Claude. And it's so much faster and has such higher limits that that's worth it for me. I also put together this ridiculous thing[1] because I missed the font and color scheme of Claude.…

How do you fit that entire prompt in the customized instructions ?

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

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.

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.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by fa3ax »

They needed to announce something after the Anthropic slop rewrite of Bun.

In an ideal world the would allocate 50% of compute to find errors in that rewrite and publish how bad Claude is, but that would undermine confidence in slop in general so that is not going to happen.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by yieldcrv »

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.

Less gibliterrating and more doing

Very fast

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by orionsbelt »

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.

First hit is free… got to get you hooked.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by dmd »

firesteelrain wrote: post #81
dmd wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using these prompts/steering[0], setting Base style to Friendly, Warm to More, Enthusiastic to Default, Headers, Lists, and Emoji to Less, I have found I can get gpt-5.5 about ... 80% of the way there to writing as non-annoyingly as Claude. And it's so much faster and has such higher limits that that's worth it for me. I also put together this ridiculous thing[1] because I missed the font and color scheme of Claude.…

How do you fit that entire prompt in the customized instructions ?

Some of it is in my customized instructions, some of it I fed pieces in at a time saying "remember this please:" so it goes into Memories.

I'm not entirely clear on the mechanism by which memories make it into context, so it's possible some of it isn't all the time, but it does seem to be working reasonably.

Again, it's not as good as Claude when it comes to writing "not like an AI". But it's significantly better than it was.

Re: Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

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Post by breatheoften »

This is extremely what Ive been wanting -- I had previously thought about using one of the hackish apps that try to deliver this experience - or spinning up something for this myself ... - but integrating this directly is definitely the right way to provide the best system and product experience -- and this seems to work out of the box exactly as I would want!
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