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Posted by allanrbo 14 hours ago

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview(community.openai.com)
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motbus3 7 hours ago|
If gpt is so great as they say, why aren't they using their own operating system yet? They have all the resources they need to prove a point
hk__2 6 hours ago|
Because it would be stupid to do so?
ddxv 10 hours ago||
I think these styles of apps will be popular for OpenAI and Anthropic as they help solve some of their moat issues. The deeper you integrate someone's files into their app, the harder it will be to switch AIs
cyanydeez 10 hours ago|
ok, but you know these things are marketed as super products; it's pretty easy for me to use a local model to scale up almost any project on github. Why would this be an effective moat beyond "I use codex too!!"
delduca 4 hours ago||
On macOS, the version made for Apple Silicon in Swift was abandoned (now it called ChatGPT-classic until they decide to kill it) to this garbage in Electron.
VortexLain 8 hours ago||
Heads up: unlike Codex CLI, Codex Desktop is proprietary, and thus can't be audited for Claude Code style hidden anti-user behavior.
fg137 8 hours ago|
A real issue we have run into is that "computer use" features, which is absolutely a big no-no at our company, can be enabled with a single click, and we cannot configure that.
wewewedxfgdf 7 hours ago||
Why would they write this in electron instead of something closer to the metal I thought this is the whole point of AI.
luca-ctx 3 hours ago||
I made something similar using Tauri but there were visual inconsistencies between platforms thanks to webkit. At the time I remember thinking I wish I had used electron to buy cross platform parity.

And I experimented with gpui from zed, that was even harder to work with.

Of course they could chase performance, but ultimately time to market is the #1 factor right now, and coding agents still aren't good enough to just immediately realize an entire GPUI app from scratch with nothing more than a figma design. Still requires a ton of oversight.

prmoustache 1 hour ago||
> visual inconsistencies between platforms

Why do you care? If I chose platform X over Z, that is potentially because I like the visual particularities of this platform.

super256 3 hours ago|||
It's built on OWL, which is their own Chromium integration. It's not electron.

Seems pretty solid for Mac, but idk about Windows and Linux.

https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas/

jampekka 3 hours ago|||
Because electron gets shit done? Aside the memory usage, electron/browser based applications of any complexity tend to be better and develop a lot faster.
sdevonoes 3 hours ago||
Users don’t like shit, though.
justmedep 3 hours ago||
More testing you still need good engineers for every native platform if you go native. We all know that AI in the hands of incompetent people is bad.
runtime_lens 8 hours ago||
The permission prompts after asking it to touch only 3 files are more concerning to me than Electron itself. An agent that can expand its access scope that easily needs a much clearer capability boundary, especially on a desktop where the user’s files are the real sandbox.
ljlolel 3 hours ago||
that’s why i made a clone of macos libraries to compile SwiftUI to linux to make something like this faster (for non Electron!)
micheles 8 hours ago||
I am unable use non-CLI tools, so I don't care about this app. However, I have a question about codex CLI: currently I am using pi agent and I am happy with it, using codex CLI would give me some advantage?
satvikpendem 8 hours ago|
You're unable to use non CLI tools? How do you interact with the Internet then?
micheles 6 hours ago|||
I don't consider the browser a tool.
csymes 8 hours ago|||
Didn't you hear, it's the year of lynx
btibor91 8 hours ago||
More details here: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/linux/linux-app
TekMol 10 hours ago|
Does this mean it is possible to talk to Codex from ChatGPT on a mobile phone now?

When I tried that with the Codex CLI version on a Linux VM, I did not get it to work. Possibly because OpenAI only supports connecting ChatGPT to a desktop installation of Codex?

preek 10 hours ago|
I have a codex cli instance on a Debian VM connected to ChatGPT on iOS via SSH. That works since.. about a month and has pretty good UX. Before, I used the shellfish terminal and tmux which also worked really good, but to be honest (even though I'm a big terminal fan), ChatGPT on iOS sometimes has a smoother UX than a terminal.
TekMol 9 hours ago||
Are you sure ChatGPT on IOS connects directly to the VM? Or via a desktop as the middle man sitting somewhere?

If you really only use ChatGPT on IOS and a VM and nothing else, then I would be curious how you set that up. I do not see a "connect to codex via ssh" in my ChatGPT app. I only see "Connect to a desktop".

Oh HOLY MOLY! Now I see there is not only a "Remote" section in the app but also a "Connection" section where you can add an ssh connection. I need to try that.

Thanks!

preek 6 hours ago|||
You're welcome(;

Also for future readers: Yes, I'm sure there's no desktop app in the middle. I have dedicated remote VMs that run agents. I don't have them running on the desktop, not even as a middle man.

mbrock 8 hours ago|||
yes I use that exact feature constantly to use Codex on remote servers and it works great
TekMol 3 hours ago||
You could just as well use any other coding agent via ChatGPT then, right?
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