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Posted by meetpateltech 10 hours ago

The Codex App(openai.com)
528 points | 359 commentspage 5
gordon_freeman 7 hours ago|
How does Codex mac app compare with Cursor? If anyone who tried both can explain here?

My experience with Cursor is generally good and I like that it gives me UX of using VS Code and also allows selection of multiple models to choose if one model is stuck on the prompt and does not work.

throwaway314155 5 hours ago|
Coding agents with full automation like this require a different workflow that is almost purely conversational compared to Cursor/Windsurf/VS Code. It requires more trust in the model (but you can always keep Cursor open off to the side and verify its edits). But, once you get into the right rhythm with it, it can be _really_ powerful.
keeeba 6 hours ago||
Is everything OpenAI do/release now a response to something Anthropic have recently released?

I remember the days when it was worth reading about their latest research/release. Halcyon days indeed.

joe8756438 9 hours ago||
Is there any marked difference or benefit over Claude Code?
RA_Fisher 9 hours ago|
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.
joe8756438 9 hours ago||
Interesting. Has anyone found running multiple parallel agents useful in practice?
esafak 7 hours ago||
You'd save time compared with running them in serial obviously?
Oras 9 hours ago||
I’ve been using codex regularly and it’s pretty good at model extra high with pretty generous context.

From the video, I can see how this app would be useful in:

- Creating branches without having to open another terminal, or creating a new branch before the session.

- Seeing diff in the same app.

- working on multiple sessions at once without switching CLI

- I quite like the “address the comments”, I can see how this would be valuable

I will give it a try for sure

e1g 9 hours ago||
Wow, this is nearly an exact copy of Codex Monitor[1]: voice mode, project + threads/agents, git panel, PR button, terminal drawer, IDE integrations, local/worktree/cloud edits, archiving threads, etc.

[1] https://github.com/Dimillian/CodexMonitor

laborcontract 9 hours ago||
Codex Monitor seems like an Antigravity Agent Manager clone. It came out after, too.

Bunch of the features u listed were already in the codex extension too. False outrage it its finest.

e1g 8 hours ago|||
I have both Codex Monitor and this new Codex app open side by side right now; aside from the theme, I struggle to tell them apart. Antigravity's Agent Manager is obviously different, but these two are twins.
laborcontract 8 hours ago||
I have a very hard time getting worked up over this. There are a ton of entrants in this category, they all generally look the same. Cribbing features seems par for the course.
verdverm 8 hours ago|||
Antigravity is a white labeled $2B pork of Windsurf, so it really starts there, but maybe someone knows what windsurf derived from to keep the chain going?
FergusArgyll 5 hours ago||
cursor?
verdverm 5 hours ago||
from what I can tell, the people behind windsurf were at it first
FergusArgyll 4 hours ago||
oh, codeium? that was them?

Maybe github copilot then

mdrzn 9 hours ago||
Maybe 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.

indigodaddy 2 hours ago|
Not going to solve your exact problem but I started this project with this approach in mind

https://github.com/jgbrwn/vibebin

lvl155 8 hours ago||
Bugs me they treat MacOS as first class. Do people actually develop on a Mac in 2026? Why not just start with Linux?
resfirestar 8 hours ago||
I mean if they were targeting "software engineers" in general then Windows would be the obvious choice in 2026 as much as in 2006. But these early releases are all about the SF bubble where Mac is very much dominant.
lvl155 6 hours ago||
Really? I frankly don’t know anyone who’s not on Linux. If you do any AI/ML you basically find yourself on a Linux box eventually. Perhaps I live in a bubble.
resfirestar 4 hours ago||
Surely it varies a lot and everyone is in an industry bubble to some extent, but from my experience in some non-tech industries (healthcare, manufacturing), Linux workstations were nonexistent and working with the Linux servers was more a sign of an ops role. People who wrote code for a living didn't touch them directly. Last StackOverflow survey [1] puts it at something like 50% use Windows at work, 30% Mac, 20-40% Linux (breakdown of WSL and Ubuntu as categories seems confusing, maybe the raw data is better).

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#1-computer-...

foreigner 8 hours ago||
Can't build iOS apps on anything else sadly.
aed 9 hours ago||
I typically bounce between Claude Code and Codex for the same project, and generally enjoy using both to check each other.

One cool thing about this: upon installing it immediately found all previous projects I've used with Codex and has those projects in the sidebar with all of the "threads" (sessions) I've had with Codex on these projects!

freeqaz 9 hours ago||
Does anybody know when Codex is going to roll out subagent support? That has been an absolute game changer in Claude Code. It lets me run with a single session for so much longer and chip away at much more complex tasks. This was my biggest pain point when I used Codex last week.
laborcontract 9 hours ago|
It's already out.
turblety 8 hours ago||
Can you explain how to use it? I’ve tried asking it to do “create 3 files using multiple sub agents” and other similar wording. It never works.

Is it in the main Codex build? There doesn’t seem to be an experiment for it.

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2604

Dowwie 6 hours ago|
Hey, that's great OpenAI. Now add about 6 zeroes to the end of the weekly token limit for your customers and maybe we could use the app
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