GoKawiilI once worked in a corporate office, and I remember how many of us would walk from meeting to meeting with open laptops perched on our forearms. It wasn't necessarily that we had to do emails in the hallways, elevators or stairwells, but we didn't want to shut the lid and have to restart the computer. It seemed goofy, but it also made sense.
So, I could sympathize a bit with folks who keep their laptops open everywhere to keep their AI coding operations running continuously. They have to maintain their Wi-Fi connections -- whether at an airport or restaurant or even their kids' ice-skating practice -- so that their AI agents can keep operating.
OpenAI announced a feature this week that will allow AI coders to leave their laptops at home. The company is adding Codex, the company's programming app, to the ChatGPT mobile app. So, if you're running Codex on a laptop, desktop, devbox or remote location, you can still stay connected to the process with your cellphone, even if you're out and about.
"A new rhythm for collaboration is emerging," OpenAI said. "You need to be able to easily answer a question, review what Codex found, change direction, approve what comes next, or add a new idea."
OpenAI is rolling out the feature in preview on iOS and Android across all plans, including Free and Go, in all supported regions. Support for folks running Codex on Windows is coming soon, according to the company.
To try it out, you'll need to update the ChatGPT mobile app and the Codex app on macOS.
OpenAI's Codex, Anthropic's Claude Code and SST's OpenCode are AI software engineering programs that help people write code, run tests and fix bugs. The agents employed by these apps can do in hours what it might take old-school coders and developers days to do.
But it's far from foolproof: AI agents can introduce bugs and security flaws into systems that often need to be weeded out by actual humans.
OpenAI said more than 4 million people use Codex every week.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
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