Great walkthrough! Looks like Codex's standout feature is parallel task execution, which tools like Lovable and Bolt haven't implemented (likely due to merge conflict challenges). I felt Codex UX sits awkwardly between Cursor and Lovable and hence not quite friendly enough for non-technical users. Lags behind Lovable for example which also has the ask/code options, two-way sync with GitHub and a live preview so you don't have to go to another tab to check the output. Will be interesting to see how Codex evolves its interface going ahead.
agree with all your points. I'd say they're going after the power users/developers rather than trying to make another lovable or bolt etc, but whether that's a good or bad thing who knows. it's not user friendly enough for all the non-technical people to use it, but also not powerful enough (yet, at least) to be a go-to tool for devs
Great walkthrough! Looks like Codex's standout feature is parallel task execution, which tools like Lovable and Bolt haven't implemented (likely due to merge conflict challenges). I felt Codex UX sits awkwardly between Cursor and Lovable and hence not quite friendly enough for non-technical users. Lags behind Lovable for example which also has the ask/code options, two-way sync with GitHub and a live preview so you don't have to go to another tab to check the output. Will be interesting to see how Codex evolves its interface going ahead.
agree with all your points. I'd say they're going after the power users/developers rather than trying to make another lovable or bolt etc, but whether that's a good or bad thing who knows. it's not user friendly enough for all the non-technical people to use it, but also not powerful enough (yet, at least) to be a go-to tool for devs