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Re:The Codex App by preston-kwei on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:59PM (#46866712)
While this may be true for casual users, for dev native products like Codex, the desktop experience actually matters a lot. When you are living in the tool for hours, latency, keyboard handling, file system access, and OS-level integration stop being “nice to have” and start affecting real productivity. web or Electron apps are fine for experimentation, but they hit a ceiling fast for serious workflows -- especially if the icp is mostly technical users
Re:The Codex App by supriyo-biswas on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:12AM (#46866787)
Welcome to HN. While I'm sure you have something to contribute here, your profile has a lot of LLM-generated comments, which are not welcome here given that this is mostly a place for humans to interact. Thank you.
Re:The Codex App by preston-kwei on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:25AM (#46866859)
Well unfortunately, that’s just how I write. None of my posts are LLM-generated, so I'm sorry they come across that way.
Re:The Codex App by supriyo-biswas on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:20AM (#46868595)
Apologies.
Re:The Codex App by tokioyoyo on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:43AM (#46866975)
Still good enough for the majority of the users.
Re:The Codex App by preston-kwei on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:55AM (#46867058)
Fair, I think I'm certainly in the minority. Especially now more then ever with an increasing amount of non-technical people exploring vibe coding, 'good enough' really is good enough for most users
Re:The Codex App by Xenoamorphous on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:28AM (#46867282)
VSCode is arguably one of the most if not the most popular code editor these days…
Re:The Codex App by waldrews on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:36AM (#46867332)
And they're pretty much the only example of an embedded browser architecture actually performing tolerably and integrating well with the native environment.
Re:The Codex App by herval on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:44AM (#46882338)
Vscode’s performance is pretty bad. It’s “tolerable” just like any electron app.