Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 193 - Codex & Claude Code On Your Phone

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[00:00] Christopher David: Open agent's mobile app. Are you ready for a magic trick? I bet you've never seen an app update itself while in your hand. Watch this. Um, yeah the sidebar here?

[00:10] Christopher David: It's a little too light.

[00:12] Christopher David: Let's just make it black, okay? Let's see what that looks like. So I'm gonna go to my new thread, tricodeur, ask codecs.

[00:21] Christopher David: Uh make the drawer background colour black and push the update.

[00:28] Christopher David: Zen! Okay, so this is sending to my desktop,

[00:34] Christopher David: Codex Bridge,

[00:35] Christopher David: which you can see the logs for in the background.

[00:37] Christopher David: So you can like sit and stare at the full logs if you want to, but this is what the phone shows.

[00:46] Christopher David: So one cool setup about this, one cool thing about this is that it does not call out to any external central servers, except for OpenAI. Obviously, we're using codecs, but you'll be able to swap in whatever coding agent you want soon.

[01:01] Christopher David: My own personal productivity,

[01:04] Christopher David: I've had probably the single largest one day increase in my productivity since like Sonnet 4 came out.

[01:11] Christopher David: Uh just being able to walk around my house talking to this and then having it, you know, manage my codecs

[01:18] Christopher David: remotely. Let's see how long it takes. Draw our background black, blah blah blah. So one avenue for improvement can be um having this kind of like learn the types of things that you do. Maybe we give it little shortcuts to do. Um definitely wanna kind of use codecs

[01:38] Christopher David: standard procedures and have that be something that we build on but usually I'll have like five of these things going at once and the overall velocity is just like absolutely unparalleled I've been making mobile apps oh there we go wait there we go okay we have a black sidebar

[01:58] Christopher David: That just was an up over the air update

[02:01] Christopher David: React Native Expo has a way of updating the app over the air and why would I explain it you just pretend that it's magic Okay, we're putting this out on test flight

[02:10] Christopher David: today it'll be alive in a day or two and

[02:13] Christopher David: Hey,

[02:14] Christopher David: you could try this yourself if you want see you soon

[02:17] Christopher David: Yes, really,

[02:18] Christopher David: you can now code from your phone with Kodax or ClaudeCode with a single NPX command,

[02:26] Christopher David: a single button to scan the QR code,

[02:30] Christopher David: and my devices are now paired. You'll see the log stream in and I'll say,

[02:35] Christopher David: hello Kodax, who are you?

[02:39] Christopher David: And you'll see the log streaming in. This is talking to your local codec's install. And you say, you know what? Codec's isn't being too smart today. Let's pop over to Claude code, new chat,

[02:51] Christopher David: Claude code.

[02:53] Christopher David: Who are you?

[02:57] Christopher David: And of course, Claude will kind of think about it for a second and give you an essay about.

[03:03] Christopher David: What Claude thinks and feels.

[03:04] Christopher David: Okay,

[03:05] Christopher David: so this is a app live now in TestFlight. Got the history there.

[03:12] Christopher David: I'm excited for developers to experience what I experienced last week where I had probably my single greatest increase,

[03:20] Christopher David: daily increase in my own personal productivity.

[03:23] Christopher David: Just getting this working,

[03:25] Christopher David: walking around my house and talking to it.

[03:27] Christopher David: Figured out how to.

[03:30] Christopher David: Get this QR code thing working sustainably for other people where now you have two options.

[03:35] Christopher David: If you run it like this, just with the basics and nothing else, there's no account needed.

[03:41] Christopher David: It just connects,

[03:42] Christopher David: it exposes this over your local area network.

[03:45] Christopher David: So your devices need to be on the same Wi-Fi network.

[03:48] Christopher David: No account needed for that.

[03:49] Christopher David: If I go up here and I flip on my TailScale VPN,

[03:53] Christopher David: this same script will auto-detect that I'm running TailScale.

[03:58] Christopher David: and i'll say tail scale and now it's the exact same flow but now i can take my phone elsewhere in the world and as long as i am my desktop is running i'll be able to chat with it from the grocery store wherever i'm at i don't think any other app enables that at least not in like a nice pretty mobile app like this when i say pretty i mean this code base is like

[04:21] Christopher David: a week old so the ui is still very rough but now that we've got the hard parts done we're just going to rapidly add features and other kind of quality of life stuff one thing i want to add is like much better voice transcription probably via grok groq

[04:36] Christopher David: And that's about it. We're open to pull requests.

[04:40] Christopher David: All this is 100% open source,

[04:42] Christopher David: by the way.

[04:43] Christopher David: Thank you, Ki,

[04:44] Christopher David: for giving us some stuff there.

[04:46] Christopher David: Nits are welcome,

[04:47] Christopher David: too,

[04:48] Christopher David: if they got good PRs attached.

[04:49] Christopher David: All this is 100% open source.

[04:51] Christopher David: I would not run anything like this if it was not 100% open source.

[04:54] Christopher David: What else? Live now on Tesla.

[04:56] Christopher David: You can join the Android wait list by tweeting at us when Android.

[05:02] Christopher David: We got docs.

[05:03] Christopher David: that are decent, mostly AI-generated, but anything that is not clear,

[05:07] Christopher David: that is not documented there,

[05:09] Christopher David: please DM or tweet at us.

[05:12] Christopher David: What else do we have? The Tricoder script is on NPX. You need to be on 024 at minimum,

[05:18] Christopher David: but generally if you run NPX Tricoder at latest, you'll get the thing that's pretty much guaranteed to work.

[05:25] Christopher David: I wanted to take a look at one little fun thing here,

[05:28] Christopher David: which was...

[05:29] Christopher David: Yeah.

[05:32] Christopher David: Open source successor to SuperMaven.

[05:35] Christopher David: this little like lightweight uh completion thing that worked in Neovim and stuff acquired by Cursor so they said when the blog post came out yeah SuperMaven will remain maintained uh but it is now no longer going to be maintained it's going to be sunset uh IroncladDev here says uh this is my 9-11 and I will never forgive Cursor for this uh Cursor huh hey uh Cursor what's Cursor's valuation

[06:02] Christopher David: Oh, see you soon, guys.