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Genuinely excited to try this out. I've started using Codex much more heavily in the past two months and honestly, it's been shockingly good. Not perfect mind y

Genuinely excited to try this out. I've started using Codex much more heavily in the past two months and honestly, it's been shockingly good. Not perfect mind you, but it keeps impressing me with what it's able to "get". It often gets stuff wrong, and at times runs with faulty assumptions, but overall it's no worse than having average L3-L4 engs at your disposal. That being said, the app is stuck at the launch screen, with "Loading projects..." taking forever... Edit: A lot of links to documentation aren't working yet. E.g.: https://developers.openai.com/codex/guides/environments https://developers.openai.com/codex/guides/environments. My current setup involves having a bunch of different environments in their own VMs using Tart and using VS Code Remote for each of them. I'm not married to that setup, but I'm curious how it handles multiple environments. Edit 2: Link is working now. Looks like I might have to tweak my setup to have port offsets instead of running VMs.

SunshineTheCat 9mo ago
Same here. From my experience, codex usually knocks backend/highly "logical?" tasks out of the park while fairly basic front-end/UI tasks it stumbles over at times. But overall it does seem to be consistently improving. Looking to see how this makes it easier to work with.
- adithyassekhar 9mo ago
  Backend, regardless of language or framework are often set in stone. There's a well defined/most used way for everything. Especially since most apps when reduced is CRUD. Frontend by the nature of how frontend works, can be completely different from project to project if one wants to architect it efficiently.
xiphias2 9mo ago
Cool, looks like I'll stay on Cursor. All alternatives come out buggy, they care a lot about developer experience. 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.
- embirico 9mo ago
  (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.
  - thefounder 9mo ago
    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
    - romainhuet 9mo ago
      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!
      - naiv 9mo ago
        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
      - thefounder 9mo ago
        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
  - theLiminator 9mo ago
    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).
dkundel 9mo ago
Hey thank you for calling out the broken link. That should be fixed now. Will make sure to track down the other broken links. We'll track down why loading is taking a while for you. Should definitely be snappier.
- wahnfrieden 9mo ago
  Is this the only announcement for Apple platform devs? I thought Codex team tweeted about something coming for Xcode users - but maybe it just meant devs who are Apple users, not devs working on Apple platform apps...
raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
I have the $20 a month subscription for ChatGPT and the $200/year subscription to Claude (company reimbursed). I have yet to hit usage limits with Codex. I continuously reach it with Claude. I use them both the same way - hands on the wheel and very interactive, small changes and tell them both to update a file to keep up with what’s done and what to do as I test. Codex gets caught in a loop more often trying to fix an issue. I tell it to summarize the issue, what it’s tried and then I throw Claude at it. Claude can usually fix it. Once it is fixed, I tell Claude to note in the same file and then go back to Codex
- 650REDHAIR 9mo ago
  I hit the Claude limit within an hour. Most of my tokens are used arguing with the hallucinations. I’ve given up on it.
  - TuxSH 9mo ago
    In my case I've had it (Opus Thinking in CC) hit 80% of the 5-hour limit and 100% of the context window with one single tricky prompt, only to end up with worthless output. Codex at least 'knows' to give up in half the time and 1/10th of the limits when that happens.
  - hnsr 9mo ago
    Do you use Claude Code, or do you use the models from some other tool? I find it quite hard to hit the limits with Claude Code, but I have several colleagues complaining a lot about hitting limits and they use Cursor. Recently they also seem to be dealing with poor results (context rot?) a lot, which I haven't really encountered yet. I wonder if Claude Code is doing something smart/special
  - theshrike79 9mo ago
    I don't want to be That Guy, but if you're "arguing with hallucinations" with an AI Agent in 2026 you're either holding it wrong or you're working on something highly nonstandard.
- motbus3 9mo ago

SunshineTheCat 9mo ago

Same here. From my experience, codex usually knocks backend/highly "logical?" tasks out of the park while fairly basic front-end/UI tasks it stumbles over at times. But overall it does seem to be consistently improving. Looking to see how this makes it easier to work with.

adithyassekhar 9mo ago
Backend, regardless of language or framework are often set in stone. There's a well defined/most used way for everything. Especially since most apps when reduced is CRUD. Frontend by the nature of how frontend works, can be completely different from project to project if one wants to architect it efficiently.

xiphias2 9mo ago

Cool, looks like I'll stay on Cursor. All alternatives come out buggy, they care a lot about developer experience. 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.

embirico 9mo ago
(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.
- thefounder 9mo ago
  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
  - romainhuet 9mo ago
    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!
    - naiv 9mo ago
      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
    - thefounder 9mo ago
      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
- theLiminator 9mo ago
  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).

dkundel 9mo ago

Hey thank you for calling out the broken link. That should be fixed now. Will make sure to track down the other broken links. We'll track down why loading is taking a while for you. Should definitely be snappier.

wahnfrieden 9mo ago
Is this the only announcement for Apple platform devs? I thought Codex team tweeted about something coming for Xcode users - but maybe it just meant devs who are Apple users, not devs working on Apple platform apps...

raw_anon_1111 9mo ago

I have the $20 a month subscription for ChatGPT and the $200/year subscription to Claude (company reimbursed). I have yet to hit usage limits with Codex. I continuously reach it with Claude. I use them both the same way - hands on the wheel and very interactive, small changes and tell them both to update a file to keep up with what’s done and what to do as I test. Codex gets caught in a loop more often trying to fix an issue. I tell it to summarize the issue, what it’s tried and then I throw Claude at it. Claude can usually fix it. Once it is fixed, I tell Claude to note in the same file and then go back to Codex

650REDHAIR 9mo ago
I hit the Claude limit within an hour. Most of my tokens are used arguing with the hallucinations. I’ve given up on it.
- TuxSH 9mo ago
  In my case I've had it (Opus Thinking in CC) hit 80% of the 5-hour limit and 100% of the context window with one single tricky prompt, only to end up with worthless output. Codex at least 'knows' to give up in half the time and 1/10th of the limits when that happens.
- hnsr 9mo ago
  Do you use Claude Code, or do you use the models from some other tool? I find it quite hard to hit the limits with Claude Code, but I have several colleagues complaining a lot about hitting limits and they use Cursor. Recently they also seem to be dealing with poor results (context rot?) a lot, which I haven't really encountered yet. I wonder if Claude Code is doing something smart/special
- theshrike79 9mo ago
  I don't want to be That Guy, but if you're "arguing with hallucinations" with an AI Agent in 2026 you're either holding it wrong or you're working on something highly nonstandard.
motbus3 9mo ago