Codex Goes Mobile: A Phone-as-Steering-Wheel Playbook
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On May 14, 2026, OpenAI shipped Codex inside the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android, in preview, on every plan including Free. By the next morning, the announcement was the mover on Hacker News at 439 points, the lead in Substack AINews, and the subject of four high-engagement YouTube creator videos. The pitch is concrete: your becomes a steering wheel for a Codex session that is actually running on your laptop, your Mac mini in a closet, or a managed devbox somewhere in OpenAI's relay layer. 📖 Read the full version with embedded sources on AgentConn → This is not Codex on a phone.