Have you ever gotten an awesome idea just after you’ve tucked yourself into bed and getting ready to sleep?
Your computer’s way over there at the work desk but your phone’s by your bed..
Or you go out for a walk, or to grab a bite at a nice cafe, or just doing anything outdoors without carrying your laptop with you.
Imagine this: You get a new idea while you’re away from your computer, you take out your phone, type a prompt, AND IT RUNS ON YOUR COMPUTER AT HOME.
I don’t mean going through a cloud service website or remote shell or Claws or whatever we have now: I mean an actual native Codex app for the iPhone/Android, that simply mirrors the Codex app on your computer. It shows all your threads, and whenever you type a prompt, it executes on your computer at home (or closed in your backpack but still connected).
THAT would be an absolute killer app for remote coding.
For my own use case, it would be great for running reviews on my existing code, and mulling over the findings while I’m away from home. I don’t let the AI directly edit the code, I look at its suggestions and figure out how to bring them in in my own way. That kind of tasks and ideas come best when you’re away from your work desk, don’t you think?
This was one of the first—and most essential—things I needed to get done. All you really need is to set up communication with ChatGPT and, say, Codex in VS Code. Then I can do absolutely anything from my phone, effortlessly. It’s not some convoluted exercise in nuclear physics.
Claude is several levels below ChatGPT/CODEX. Codex will program virtually anything, and ChatGPT doesn’t ramble nearly as much nonsense as Claude. I tried a number of things, and Claude without memory is utterly useless. I don’t know how it is now, but with ChatGPT I’ve built a vector database—which is absolutely fundamental for AI. If you don’t understand this and don’t implement it, you’ll keep floundering on a children’s playground, with the functions and mindset of little kids.
There’s a massive difference between working on a project for months—where GPT remembers everything and offers relevant reasoning, prompts, and warnings about the errors that will arise—and chatting with an AI that has limited memory and can’t do anything properly, let alone handle large projects that require hundreds of pages of information you’ve discussed together or stored somewhere.
Claude may have plenty of features, but it doesn’t execute anything well. When I asked it to analyze an image of a head and extract the eyes, mouth, eyebrows, and so on, it got stuck on the background and other details, and then it couldn’t reassemble the image. CODEX did it immediately and even generated an HTML file with an editor so I could fine-tune the positions. And it’s like this across the board: Claude is fine for kids to play with, but unless you’ve tuned it yourself, it’s useless.
