Posted by mikeevans 18 hours ago
1) Keep getting investors to give them money.
2) Convince the right people that OpenAI is "critical to national security" so that when 1 runs out, they can get bailed out by the government.
Everything else is just set dressing.
Neither does OpenAI.
Edit: actually it gets worse -- you can't start any tasks any longer in your mobile, you are required to sign in from your desktop/workstation. You can't "sign in" from your CLI.
Whoever made this, paper cuts I wish onto you. It sucks.
Edit2: actually you can ssh, so I presume that allows you to do the CLI -- and you still can do mobile first tasks, but it's not intuitive at all. Mobile first tasks you still can't pick the model, and I haven't tested the workstation connection one. That said, indeed paper cuts.
they added some new stuff, like remote control to wherever the desktop codex app is running, but these companies need to work much more on their press releases.
In those scenarios, the goal is not "work at any time" but to "be anywhere at any time", or, rather, to "be able to work from anywhere, doing anything".
Sort of....I guess.
I’m not a swe but damn, I’d hate to be one.
Claude on the other hand has been jank all around from the UX to the UI to the AI itself that it's baffling how it's more popular here on HN: https://i.imgur.com/jYawPDY.png
Sadly this remote control feature doesn't seem to be for Mac to Mac yet? I love the MacBook Neo as a "thin client" for AI and keep the MacBook Pro at home/hotel, and it would be nice to share Codex desktop sessions (without SSH → resume link)
Feels like a testament to the value in taking time and doing it properly.
Now if only codex got its 1M token context window back.
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Edit: Hmmm. Maybe I spoke too soon. Sigh. Definitely _more_ reliable by far overall, but still have queued messages with responses on my phone that don't show up on my computer, and responses that don't show up on my phone.
Edit 2: New threads created from my phone seem to have a little stall-out, but ones that are underway are behaving reasonably well.
