Exactly my thoughts! I was expecting a Rust app written from scratch available at least in Qt and GTK flavors , and maybe with a third and a fourth option.

Don't they have agent swarms with infinite tokens?

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concinds an hour ago | parent [-]

They replaced a pretty decent native Swift Mac app (with only some chronic state management bugs), weighing ~100MB ish, with the Codex app that most people don't need, made in Electron, which takes minimum 5GB+ including filesystem cruft. Today I ran into a memory leak that froze the app and made the Renderer process take 5GB, then 10GB of RAM.

That was after I asked it to only touch 3 text files in its working directory, after which it sparked macOS permission prompts to access my Desktop, Documents, Downloads, and other apps' data. Thank god for the web platform and web apps.

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rvz 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> They replaced a pretty decent native Swift Mac app (with only some chronic state management bugs), weighing ~100MB ish, with the Codex app that most people don't need, made in Electron.

Not even a $1T dollar company wants to maintain a native Swift Mac app even though they have AI models to build native apps for every platform.

Maybe they thought Electron would save them tokens to build the feature once and it works everywhere rather than spending more tokens on building the same feature on 3 platforms.

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jonizzle an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I hate the new app aswell but you can still get the old one called ChatGPT Classic. Just scroll down to the bottom of the download site.

	▲	awakeasleep 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Its unmaintained and has glaring bugs (cant adjust thinking level) for a month now