ChatGPT Desktop

“it's possible to remotely access the file system (!) of computers ever having started a "Work" chat in the ChatGPT desktop app”

“Is it just me or is codex on windows slow and buggy for general work tasks?”

“nobody still understands the utility of just having a ChatGPT desktop app being able to basically drive your computer”

“something like the GPT/Claude desktop apps are pretty good, where the interaction with agents is front-and-center”

“Use ChatGPT Desktop or Claude Desktop to prototype when there are many branches and screens”

“Why use Codex CLI if you can use the ChatGPT Linux app (which is a Codex GUI in all but name).”

“I can't get codex app, new chatgpt or chatgpt classic to work without hanging on even a moderately sized chat.”

“native built-in browser integration, links, etc which the (Mac) desktop apps like ChatGPT or Claude offer”

“Codex in ChatGPT Desktop + 5.6Sol is my daily driver for non-coding things, and it's great.”

“My main program missing from going back to Linux was ChatGPT Desktop, but now it's there.”

“ChatGPT Desktop is much better in this regard, I feel the output is concise, clear”

“in-app browser with feedback you can do that's native to its elements lika a network inspector”

“My biggest gripe is now anytime I open a new session it hangs and I see the beachball spinner (mac) for a while before I can actually use the app again.”

“Sure, all other things being equal less RAM usage is better, but I can understand why reducing it isn't a priority for them.”

“the GUI options (and browser) slow to a crawl with long sessions, especially if they have math rendered”

“Much easier to manage multiple projects simultaneously and it has a built in diff viewer”

“one advantage is that you can control it remotely via the chatgpt mobile app”

“the UI paradigm of GUI, which is overall just richer and better than a TUI, albeit more heavyweight”

“the remote control with the phone app only works with the phone AFAIK, so that's the only reason I use it”

“it downloads multiple gigabytes of random things and doesn't follow any design conventions nor standards”

“I've been using Codex in full access mode constantly for the past couple months on a Pro plan and I haven't had a single incident like this.”

“An agent that can expand its access scope that easily needs a much clearer capability boundary”

“"computer use" features, which is absolutely a big no-no at our company, can be enabled with a single click, and we cannot configure that”

“run a proprietary gui based LLM solution that Sam Altman gets to keylog AND have full remote code execution on their system”

“It created 2 new users and then assigned new NTFS permissions for every single file under my user directory to them.”

“Codex Desktop is proprietary, and thus can't be audited for Claude Code style hidden anti-user behavior”

“Latex rendering, inline images, inline browser showing what it's clicking on, being able to view a spreadsheet and then select a region to reference in the conversation”

“I've had it research flights by checking different dates automatically and compiling the results for me.”

“It can UI test web apps if that's part of your job, but it can also just use the browser for tasks.”

“These all seem pretty good and I look forward to starting to use it once it's been more battle-tested.”

“it's nice that I can start a session in chatgpt and then move on to codex in the same UI”

“It does feel slower than it used to be. Fast mode seems useless now - burns through tokens without a noticeable speed gain for me now.”

“The Mac desktop ChatGPT app had weird issues like not being able to see the model being used by a chat inside a project”

“it does expose CDP and appserver which allowed me to build a Greasemonkey-like plugin system on top of it. It's surprisingly powerful”

“the codex desktop app is very powerful for development + testing given it can easily control the computer”

“everything works as intended, even got computer use working without any issues”

“Mobile remote connection works, pushed the PR earlier today.”

“doesn't have tabs and yet in an hour of chatting was at the point where it was consuming 2.5gb of memory”

“the ChatGPT desktop app is excellent at long web research tasks”

“Their apps are bare bones, somewhat flaky, and overall not that impressive from a UX point of view.”