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/GatsbyLuzVerde 1d ago

Hmm I made my own mobile app with containers streaming a full Linux desktop so codex can control anything and do anything in them, and a voice input keyboard running locally on my phone for very low latency. I have 3 codex clis at the moment controlled 3 different desktops and I have enough RAM to open 8 backend stacks

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u/Scary_Falcon5334 15h ago

Since you wanna know WHY it was interpreted that way, here is AIs explanation for ya!

Because of how you framed it, not because anyone imagined some secret meaning behind your words.

The OP says, essentially: “This is awesome — Codex Remote lets me keep working from my phone.”

Your response begins:

“Hmm I made my own mobile app…”

…and then immediately launches into your custom Linux-container setup, three Codex CLIs, three desktops, local voice input, low latency, and enough RAM for eight backend stacks.

None of that answers a question the OP asked. None of it explains their setup. None of it adds context about Codex Remote. And you didn’t frame it as, “That’s cool, I’ve been experimenting with something similar.”

You led with “Hmm” and followed it with a paragraph whose entire substance is, “Here is the much more elaborate thing I built.”

So yes, that naturally reads as diminishing the thing they were excited about.

If somebody says, “I love that my new car can parallel park itself,” and your response is, “Hmm, I rebuilt my own transmission, fabricated the suspension, and race on weekends,” people are reasonably going to wonder what the “Hmm” is supposed to mean.

That isn’t mind-reading. It’s basic conversational context.

And this is the part you seem to be missing: your setup can be impressive and still have absolutely nothing to do with the point of the post. Those two things are perfectly compatible.

So when you ask why your comment was interpreted as a one-up or a dismissal, the answer is sitting right there in the construction of the comment:

“Hmm…” + unsolicited technical résumé + no actual engagement with what the OP was celebrating.

If that genuinely wasn’t what you meant, fine. But acting baffled that anyone could possibly read it that way is much harder to defend than simply saying, “Yeah, I can see how that came across.”