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It's kind of interesting that everyone is going for the desktop app format now. These desktop agentic coding tools are a large UX step up from the CLIs, but I
by 2001zhaozhao 5mo ago
It's kind of interesting that everyone is going for the desktop app format now.
These desktop agentic coding tools are a large UX step up from the CLIs, but I still think the future is going to be remote development as the coding agents start running for hours at a time. Building a desktop app seems short-sighted as it would just lock them out of the remote option completely.
- panos_news 5mo agoI think their goal is to lock you into their ecosystem instead of using your IDE
- jollyllama 5mo agoThey want all your data. A browser doesn't get them that as well.
- dangoor 5mo agoYou can get to it wherever you want. Copilot CLI is pretty great: https://github.com/features/copilot/cli https://github.com/features/copilot/cli There's support in VS Code and Jetbrains IDEs. You can access your agent sessions on the web. (I work at GitHub, but not on Copilot)
- hootz 5mo agoThe desktop app can become a client for their remote cloud agent solution (yuck).
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 5mo agoDoesn't lock you out at all. Codex already had a companion app for mobile so you can send prompts to your desktop app while you go about your business. The infrastructure is there. Server might move from your desktop to cloud at some point but not much changes. Still needs somewhere to run.
- dist-epoch 5mo agoCodex App can spawn/control Codex agents running in the cloud.
- wuliwong 5mo agoBut now is now, and what you are talking about is a future that may or may not exist.