Rui Carmo
I spent most of January building vibes – a mobile chat front-end for talking to an agent via the ACP protocol – and then most of February turning it into piclaw because I wanted something I could actually live in day to day. So reading Federico Viticci’s review of Remodex – an iOS remote for OpenAI’s Codex agent – was one of those “well, yes, exactly” moments. The itch it scratches is precisely the one I’d been scratching myself: you’re away from your desk, something’s running, and you want to check in, redirect it, or just see what decisions it made while you were gone.
Where it gets interesting is the constraint baked right into the headline – “Until OpenAI Releases an Official Codex Mobile App.” That’s the whole problem with building on top of a single vendor’s agent: you’re always one product announcement away from irrelevance. piclaw is self-hosted, model-agnostic, and extensible in ways a polished first-party client can’t afford to be – scheduling, memory, multi-model routing, a web UI I can customise – and that flexibility is exactly why I went down that path rather than just waiting for someone else to build a nice remote.
I do have a Codex Pro plan and genuinely like it – I just can’t see myself using it exclusively on the Mac when I have something running in the background I can reach from anywhere. For me, mobility still matters.