OpenAI has decided that coding should be a mobile sport. Codex, the company's year-old coding tool, is now integrated into the ChatGPT app, letting developers monitor and boss around their development workflows from the comfort of their handheld rectangles.
The new feature, announced Thursday and currently in preview, shows users their Codex live environments across any device where it's running. It's available to all plans on both iOS and Android, because why should your laptop have all the fun?
"This is more than the ability to remotely control a single task or dispatch new tasks to your computer," OpenAI said with the solemnity of a tech company announcing a major breakthrough. "From your phone, you can work across all of your threads, review outputs, approve commands, change models, or start something new." In other words, you can now micromanage your code from the toilet.
This follows last month's update that let Codex run in the background on desktops, autonomously handling tasks like a diligent but slightly creepy intern. Earlier this month, OpenAI also dropped a Chrome extension so the agent can muck about in live browser sessions.
Naturally, Anthropic wasn't about to let OpenAI hog the spotlight. In February, it released a similar feature called Remote Control, letting users monitor Claude Code's work from afar. Because nothing says "healthy competition" like two AI companies racing to see whose tool can babysit code more effectively.
The flurry of releases from both camps underscores a tense rivalry over which agentic coding tool will become the industry standard. Anthropic's Claude Code has been gaining traction among businesses and tech professionals over the past year, though both tools remain widely used. So far, nobody has declared a winner, but the battle for coding supremacy continues to be fought one mobile update at a time.