OpenAI is betting that coding agents are outgrowing the terminal.
The company launched a macOS desktop app on Monday for its Codex software development agent, which focuses less on the code itself and more on managing multiple software development agents in parallel.
Until now, the main way to interact with Codex was through the terminal, similar to Anthropic’s Claude Code or Google’s Gemini CLI. While the new desktop app still allows developers to drop into an IDE like VS Code or the terminal for hands-on work, OpenAI’s mission with…

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