OpenAI

OpenAI recently brought Codex into the ChatGPT apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. At first glance, that sounds simple enough: now you can use Codex on your phone. I do not think that is the interesting part. Honestly, who wants to review code diffs on a phone for half an hour? That sounds more like punishment than productivity. The real point of Codex Mobile is that it turns the phone into a remote control for AI coding agents. The code still runs on your laptop, Mac mini, devbox, or remote environment. The phone is there for checking progress, answering questions, approving commands, changing direction, and dropping in a new task when an idea shows up. ...

For the last two years, the default image of using AI has looked something like this: someone sitting in front of a text box, carefully writing a prompt as if they were briefing a very literal genie. That image is not wrong. In fact, it defined an entire phase of AI product behavior. But lately I have felt more and more strongly that this interface is starting to loosen. Prompting is not suddenly useless. It is simply moving into the background, while voice, screenshots, screen recordings, and raw documents are slowly becoming the more natural front door. ...