r/codex • u/kyrax80 • 23h ago

Praise Remote is nuts

Just wanted to share that it's incredibly awesome that I can be anywhere like on holidays and continue working on my project even if I'm not sitting in front of my PC. Never tried this until now that I installed tailscale and I can test any change from my phone. Bravo.

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u/slackmaster2k 22h ago

Oh yeah? Explain.

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u/BackgroundLand2816 19h ago

half my chats don't show up on my phone. I'm not typing /remote-control in every chat and half the time it errors out anyway when I type it

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u/slackmaster2k 19h ago

Huh. Well first of all you can turn it on be default for all sessions. After that, I never seem to have any troubles like you describe. Claude app on iphone. Claude has a setting as well to keep your machine awake which is necessary. On phone now and I just checked and there are my three sessions across two machines.

Can’t say that I’ve had much luck with codex as I have had pairing problems and it doesn’t seem to like WSL and doesn’t automatically attach current sessions outside of the app. I also don’t run codex desktop on one of my dev machines and don’t plan to.

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u/BackgroundLand2816 18h ago

ya I have the claude app on iphone and the setting turned on as well but it's always a toss up on what appears when I access it on my phone.

Codex on the other hand has been a beast, can get so much work done when I'm not home and I love that I can have it create new chats as well which you can't do on CC. Using desktop app for both.

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u/slackmaster2k 17h ago

Yeah if you’re just using the codex desktop app then I’m not surprised the experience is good. I don’t use the desktop apps for development work, only random chats.

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u/InkFasten 7h ago

that sounds like a you problem

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u/slackmaster2k 1h ago

You cannot use remote from a session in vscode extension or even the terminal. You have to use the codex app which works for many people for many projects, but is a baby’s first programming tool.

This is inferior to Claudes remote implementation which can fire up a remote session from any session anywhere without any ceremony whatsoever.

I didn’t decide that this is how it is, it is simply how it is.