(I work on Codex) One detail you might appreciate is that we built the app with a ton of code sharing with the CLI (as core agent harness) and the VSCode extension (UI layer), so that as we improve any of those, we polish them all.
Re:The Codex App
by theLiminator on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:41PM
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Any chance you'll enable remote development on a self-hosted machine with this app?
Ie. I think the codex webapp on a self-hosted machine would be great. This is impotant when you need a beefier machine (with potentially a GPU).
Working remotely with the app would truly be great
Re:The Codex App
by strongpigeon on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:03PM
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Interested in this as well.
This should be table stakes by now. That's the beauty of these cli tools and how they scale so well.
Re:The Codex App
by indigodaddy on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:05PM
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Not going to solve your exact problem but I started this project with this approach in mind
Re:The Codex App
by AlexCoventry on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:13PM
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What are the benefits of using the codex webapp?
Re:The Codex App
by thefounder on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:00PM
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Any reason to switch from vscode with codex to this app? To me it looks like this app is more for non-developers but maybe I’m missing something
Re:The Codex App
by romainhuet on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:35PM
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Good question! VS Code is still a great place for deep, hands-on coding with the Codex IDE extension.
We built the Codex app to make it easier to run and supervise multiple agents across projects, let longer-running tasks execute in parallel, and keep a higher-level view of what’s happening. Would love to hear your feedback!
ok , 'projects' but this would make a lot more sense if we could connect remotely to the projects which works without a problem using the IDE plugin, so right now I don't see any advantage of using this
Re:The Codex App
by thefounder on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:43AM
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I already have multiple projects that I manage in full-screen via vscode. I just move from one to the other using “cmd” + “->” . You should be aware that the Claude Code extension for vscode is way better than codex extension so perhaps you should work a bit on that as well.
Even if the agents do 80% of work I still need to check what they do and a familiar IDE seems the first choice of existing/old school developer
Awesome. Any chance we will see a phone app?
I know coding on a phone sounds stupid, but with an agent it’s mostly approvals and small comments.
Re:The Codex App
by strongpigeon on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:35PM
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The ChatGPT app on iOS has a Codex page, though it only seems to be for the "cloud" version.
BTW OpenAI should think a bit about polishing their main apps instead of trying to come out with new ones while the originals are still buggy.