Conrad Kramer

@EEEEYHN @bridge_surf Looking into this urgently. Thank you for the report! This is not intended

@bridge_surf This should be fixed urgently. This is a serious privacy breach affecting every user — plus it wastes tokens and battery.

Today we noticed Chrome unexpectedly opening Gmail and searching through emails related to us, while Codex was shown controlling Chrome from the menu bar. After investigating for a while, we traced the behavior back to the Codex Suggestions feature. It appears the system periodically creates background sessions to generate personalized task suggestions, and in this case, Computer Use was not properly disabled for those sessions. As a result, the agent began autonomously browsing and searching personal information inside the browser. This seems more like an unintended product/design issue rather than malicious behavior, but it does highlight important concerns around background agent permissions, visibility, and safety boundaries for Computer Use systems. cc @AriX @thsottiaux Issue here github.com/openai/codex/i…

@solipsnitsyn @DebatableChild @Mascobot no, it can see raw pixels. try it!

@conradev @DebatableChild @Mascobot thru accessibility api and text parsing, aye

People are sleeping on Codex computer use. It’s pretty neat

I cannot overstate how awesome codex computer use is, actually so magical @thsottiaux

@solipsnitsyn @DebatableChild @Mascobot It is actually able to see and use both, which is why both are in your screenshot it can click in iPhone mirroring or a VNC app just fine!

the log in codex is actually pretty transparent about what it sees. It can look at the screen in the form of a screenshot, which it marks as "Looked at " but all text output related to computer use shows standard shit like this "Window: "Untitled - Blender 5.1.1", App: Blender. 0 standard window Untitled - Blender 5.1.1, Secondary Actions: Raise 1 close button 2 full screen button Help: this button also has an action to zoom the window, Secondary Actions: zoom the window 3 minimize button 4 text Untitled - Blender 5.1.1 5 menu bar 6 Blender 7 Window The focused UI element is 0 standard window Untitled - Blender 5.1.1, Secondary Actions: Raise" which is macos accessibility settings. probably why computer use isn't on windows yet. it has no equivalent api framework

Love this, while watching Fallout on TV, I thought it would be fun to play it again so got Codex remote to find a way to install it on my Mac. It bought it, downloaded to community version for Mac, and launched the game via computer use.

@rounak I just discovered this 30s ago. wow. so good.

When did Chrome on OS X get double tap to zoom?

@Robotbeat youtu.be/4ji_9hwDD5g

With a bunch of high speed event cameras and a fast robot arm... could you make a robot that could block bullets?

@inflammateomnia yes. claude is receptive

@conradev Joining ant to pill claude on total mosquito death with irrefutable welfare calculations

It took a few years and many models but i have finally become a guy who talks to models like that

@inflammateomnia this reminds of me when Opus 4.5 would instantly end chats with me if I asked how to kill mosquitoes around my house I felt judged

I regret to report it feels way better

@meekaale @_a9lim if you need to reach higher functional goals (your component is one of a larger system) then you do need to pay down debt. I've seen systems decay into incoherence

@_a9lim yeah but there's no taxation so the slop tends to inflate without limit

vibe coding is really just applying modern monetary theory to technical debt

@halvarflake Using `/goal` mode in codex is how I've been doing it! Have several running for weeks on hard stuff

Ok folks, how do you get an agent to run against a problem for a few days? Mine always find an excuse to stop.

Today we’re releasing Appshots in Codex. I love this feature! It makes it so easy to integrate Codex into everything I do on my Mac.

@mitchellh That makes sense! I’ll admit I haven’t spent a lot of time in it either, but it feels fast. Running on dedicated infra is usually faster than shared infra, tho I have an instance for myself, running on my tower at home, and even Linux feels snappy: compatible.systems/conrad/linux

I admit I have not tried a million line diff directly in Forgejo, but I've had much smaller diffs load poorly, e.g. codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pu… where the sidebar loads slowly for file nav. I don't know the keyboard nav to get to it but there doesn't seem to be a "jump to file" i can find either.

This is why PR diff speed matters. This isn't a dunk on GitHub specifically, because GitLab, Forgejo, etc. are all equal or worse. But this is the kind of thing that drives me nuts, because this is a core workflow and its slow enough I literally take my hands off the keyboard. Btw, when my mouse jiggles on the left, its because the page is literally skipping frames and I'm instinctively shaking my mouse to see if it'll respond. And on the keyboard input you can literally here me finish typing before a letter even shows up. For someone like me who is an expert at these tools, my brain navigates the tool dramatically faster than it can keep up, and that is not good. The tool should not get in the way.

@mattparlmer I went on a tour of the power plant back in 2019 when they were trying to drum up public support for redevelopment… guess that didn’t pan out

This stretch of bay coastline from the old PG&E smokestack to Hunters Point is some of the best industrial real estate in the world and there’s basically nobody using it, a lot of the piers are literally parking lots

@patrickc It is also the birthplace of techno! 19hz.info/eventlisting_D… the founding of the NHTSA is an interesting story, Ralph Nader spearheaded the entire movement with a book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at…

Detroit impressions: • The downtown is full of beautiful buildings. All of them seem to have been built specifically in the 1920s. I guess that is after the city had accumulated enough auto wealth but before the twin hits of Modernism and the Depression. (I hadn't known that the GM Renaissance Center, built as a revitalization project, was at the time the largest private development in US history, and also at the time the world's tallest hotel. It may be large, but it is not pretty.) The downtown is surprisingly depopulated -- both the streets and the sidewalks feel empty. That said, it didn't feel at all unsafe. There are lots of great homes in the suburbs. • The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation is amazing, and it's worth visiting Detroit for it alone. Among many (many) other things, it contains the oldest known surviving steam engine in the world, the actual Montgomery bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a deconstructed Model T, a deconstructed Eames Chair, and many great cars, agricultural equipment, locomotives, industrial specimens, and more. (They have the Lincoln Continental that JFK was riding in when assassinated -- which, apparently, was returned to service and used by several subsequent presidents.) • The museum made me wonder why American car design peaked in the mid-60s. (This fact is very evident at the museum.) The LLMs blame the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. (Not quite wtfhappenedin1971.com, but close.) • Good food exists but it is hard to find. • The Heidelberg Project also exists and is unique. • We stayed at the Dearborn Inn, which is wonderful, and contains cottages modeled after the homes of significant American figures. Dearborn (and Hamtramck) are now predominantly Muslim, apparently for reasons that go back a century to Henry Ford's $5 wage. Dearborn felt noticeably prosperous (we stopped for coffee at a fancy Japanese cheesecake cafe); Hamtramck did not. • Michigan.gov says that the Hispanic population of Michigan is just 6%. Coming from California, the absence is very striking. • The Detroit Institute of Arts is remarkable, particularly the room with the American landscapes and the section with the Dutch masters (especially The Visitation). An obvious question is why there is nothing quite like it in the Bay Area given how much richer the latter is than Detroit ever was -- we techies are just so uncultured by comparison. The Diego Rivera murals are amazing (and quite strange; you can see why they were controversial). • Detroit is full of historic plaques -- they are truly everywhere. This is presumably due in part to the fact that Detroit has a lot of history, but it still has many more than places with comparable historical depth. Some research suggests that it might be related to generous tax credits for historic preservation. Whether or not that is true, Detroit persuades me that other places should engage in more plaquemaxxing. • I recommend a visit! You overall leave with some sense for how exciting America must have felt in the early 20th century.

The @OpenAI Codex team is killing it. Such a fun way to use computers. The future is going to be so dope.

@willdepue I don’t have room for my op-1 on my desk

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@kwuchu @johnlindquist @OpenAI @jxnlco It sounds like a bug in shell detection because codex supports many shells: #L5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/openai/codex/b…

@johnlindquist @OpenAI @jxnlco Lmaaaaaao, thank you. Let me dig into it a little bit

I have a question for the @OpenAI team, why are you using `zsh` by default in Codex terminals instead of whatever the user has configured? Literally breaks my entire experience, cc @jxnlco

I’ve been working on bringing Codex to iOS and I am thrilled to finally be able to share it with you all! I happen to be OOO today for some personal stuff so I’ll post more thoughts later, but wanted to share this just to say it’s a great experience on an iPad with a keyboard :)