I've been testing the new OpenAI Codex app for a week. For those catching up, it's a GUI on top of the codex harness focused on the annoying problem of agentic local development: git (worktrees, branches, commits, PRs) and working across local + the cloud. # What makes Codex different? ## Very focused Well first, it's not a TUI. It's not a chatbot. It's not an IDE. It's... something else. Codex strips away everything but the primitives it's focused on, which are: • Projects (basically,…