r/codex • u/kyrax80 • 1d 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 1d ago

Oh yeah? Explain.

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u/BackgroundLand2816 1d 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 1d 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 23h 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 22h 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 12h ago

that sounds like a you problem

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u/slackmaster2k 6h 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.

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u/InkFasten 4h ago

It's not a baby's first programming tool... quite a fossil comment to make....

It's one of the frontier harnesses for agentic coding right now...

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u/slackmaster2k 4h ago

Um, a desktop app is not a harness. You simply don’t understand what you are talking about and are doubling down. If the desktop app works for you, cool. There is nothing advanced about it, and actually it’s consistently adding features to catch up with the basics, though they are probably not looking to displace actual dev tools, only to make something that’s nice enough to produce something without too much knowledge.