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Codex App - A First Look for App Development
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I had early access to Codex app this past week. The OpenAI team is moving insanely fast with Codex CLI, and watching this new app unfold was incredible. Take a look, and see for yourself. Download link in the video. Codex app feels like the missing IDE layer for the Codex CLI. One-click to open Xcode, run iOS/macOS apps, review diffs, and manage agents. I have mine configured using Makefiles (More on my setup in another email). Talk soon, Paul Solt P.S. Codex in 2026 took all the friction out of publishing an app... |
AI Code Brief - Paul Solt
Join 5,901+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and agents to build and ship apps. Expect practical tutorials, repeatable workflows, and hard-earned lessons from 7 shipped apps and time at Apple, Microsoft, and GoPro.
Hey Reader, Every indie dev has an app like this: Made some money and then died... Mine made $5K since 2018. Eight years of deprecated code ... I never had energy to touch it. It wasn't worth weeks of cleanup for an app making a few dollars per month. THEN I gave it to Codex. The cleanup was done in 30 minutes. Now I'm shipping the redesign I'd been stuck on for years. Watch: I Gave Codex My Dead Mac App Learn Why did I let it die About the 5-star "complaint" How Codex broke two App Store...
Hey Reader, OpenAI launched the Codex app, a great way to continue controlling your agents when you're on the go. I've been using Remodex for weeks, which has been awesome. Being able to steer research while walking in the woods is super cool. I can get steps in while doing light work. Watch: Codex on iPhone shipped — here's what works There are some gotchas with the new Codex/ChatGPT app today; by early next week, most of these issues should be resolved. Here are 5 workarounds if you get...
Hey Reader, I flew out to San Francisco to visit OpenAI. It was a whirlwind and super fun to meet the team behind the Codex app. And I was able to chat with developers to learn about their own workflows. Read: 3 Things I Learned from the GPT-5.5 Launch Party I met Ray Fernando, Sam Altman, and many other great people at OpenAI and beyond. I was inspired by some of the discussions to start work on my Codex Librarian research tools and skills. This builds upon my DocSetQuery GitHub project....