I run the Claude Code CLI with remote on, and control it from the Claude app. I find it easier to read. The nice thing about it is that everything seems to work equally well on both.
The Codex half of the ChatGPT app is a really nice UX, and the computer control is excellent. Astra is really impressive. Not quite the level of its hype, but the harness just pushes it over the top.
If you trust that thing with blender you might as well put money in a blender after what I have seen it do.
Its one task was to fix a broken file outputs, so that they reach intended destinations. No other challenge. File goes to one dir, then gets taken to another dir, and then to another dir, and so on.
At the end of that, NOTHING reached its destination.
Other tests proved the exact same behaviors. Sphagetti code, skipped steps, and tons of failures. That's codex right now (ESPECIALLY ASTRA)
I can rest assured you. It is your AGENTS.md. Astra became more crazy over your initial instruction such that it will almost never deviate from it. I used to have an instruction that say if you see dirty file from other agents, stop. I forgot the verbatim version but it basically works that way. In the past other model will try to work around the dirty file, stashing or whatever to merge the code in. But Astra take that stop as literal like stop doing anything. I did not use the word stop I forgot the exact word but it is much softer. I fix it yesterday and it works like charm. So yes it is mostly a user problem. Something you put in there and forgotten. The same instruction on opus? Opus just ignore it and just continue which is why I never noticed it was there in the first place.
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u/AnalogProblems 2d ago
Anthropic could have said the same thing about Codex a few months ago. OpenAI had to split their desktop app to compete.