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Episode 1 · May 15, 2026 · 07:23

NEW Codex Agent Update is INSANE!

New Codeex Agent Update: Control Your AI Coder From Your Phone!


This massive Codeex update lets you control your AI coding agent directly from the ChatGPT mobile app while your computer handles the heavy lifting at home. Learn how to fix bugs, refactor code, and approve tasks on the go with this game-changing remote control feature. Discover why this update marks the shift from AI as a tool to managing a full AI workforce.


00:00 - Intro: Mobile Coding Is Here

01:06 - How the Mobile Interface Works

01:32 - Solving the Agent "Stuck" Problem

02:15 - Easy QR Code Setup Guide

02:51 - OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Coding Wars

03:33 - 4 Game-Changing Use Cases

04:52 - Security & Code Safety

05:24 - Moving From Coder to AI Manager

Full transcript

New Codex agent update is insane. Your AI can now keep coding while you're not even at your desk. You can control it all from your phone. I'm going to show you everything.

This changes the game forever. Let's go. Here's what just happened. Panai rolled out a huge update to Codex and it's not small.

It's massive. The Codex agent is now inside the ChatGPT mobile app, both iOS and Android. You can start coding tasks from your phone. You can review what the AI did.

You can approve actions. You can change what it's doing, all from your phone. While the actual coding happens on your laptop or Mac Mini or DevBox at home. Let me say that again because this is the part most people miss.

The AI keeps working even when you leave your desk. Think about that for a second. Before this update, AI coding was like this. You sit down.

You type a prompt. You wait. You stare at the screen. You check the output.

You type again. You wait again. Boring, slow, tied to your chair. Now, you can start a big task, walk away, get coffee, go to the gym, take a nap.

And the AI just keeps going. When it needs you to approve something, it pings your phone. You tap a button. It keeps going.

That's it. This is huge. And I'll tell you why in a minute. But first, let me show you what the update actually does.

From your phone, you can do all of this. Start new coding tasks. Continue old ones you were working on. Look at the diffs.

That means the changes the AI made to your code. Review test results. Approve commands. Switch models.

Watch long-running jobs in real time. All from your phone screen. And here's the cool part. Your actual code never leaves your computer.

The phone is just a remote control. The code stays safe on your laptop. Your passwords stay safe. Your files stay safe.

The phone just streams what's happening so you can see and approve stuff. That's a big deal for safety. Now, let me tell you why this matters so much. Coding agents have had one big problem.

A really annoying problem. You start a task. You walk away. The agent gets stuck.

It needs you to approve something. You're not there. Work just stops. Dead.

You come back hours later and nothing got done. So frustrating. OpenAI just killed that problem. Now, when the agent gets stuck, your phone buzzes.

You tap. Work keeps moving. Simple. Hey, if we haven't met yet, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie.

He runs an SEO agency called Goldie Agency. While he's busy helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to keep you updated on all the latest AI stuff. Julian reads every single comment on these videos. So drop a comment below.

Tell me if you'd use this new Codex feature. Tell me what you'd build with it. He'll read it. I promise.

Now, let me show you how this actually works. The setup is super easy. You open the Codex app on your computer. It shows a QR code.

You scan that QR code with the ChatGPT app on your phone. Now your phone is connected. Now your phone can talk to your Codex agent. That's it.

No weird setup. No long install. Just scan and go. Once you're set up, here's what the experience feels like.

You're on the train. You're at lunch. You're walking the dog. Whatever.

Your phone buzzes. The Codex agent says, Hey, I want to run this command. Is that okay? You look at it.

You tap yes. The agent keeps working. Or maybe it asks, I found two ways to fix this bug. Which one do you want?

You pick one. Done. Back to your life. This is what AI was supposed to feel like all along.

And here's where it gets really interesting. There's a war happening right now. A big one. Between OpenAI and Anthropic.

Anthropic makes Claude Code. Claude Code became super popular because it could run for a long time and do real coding work. People love it. OpenAI saw that.

And OpenAI is hitting back hard with this Codex update. This is the AI coding war. And it's just heating up. Whoever wins this race basically wins the future of how software gets built.

That's not a small thing. That's everything. Hey, real quick. If you want to learn how to actually use tools like Codex and other AI agents to grow your business and automate boring tasks, check out my AI Profit Boardroom.

It's the best place to scale your business with AI automation. We've got step-by-step guides on how to use AI coding agents, how to set up AI workers, how to save hours every day with tools just like this Codex update. Link is in the description. Come join us.

You'll love it. Okay, let's keep going. I want to talk about what you can actually do with this in real life. Because the cool features are nice, but you want to know how it helps you, right?

Here's use case one. Fixing bugs on the go. You're on a bus. You get an alert that a bug popped up.

Old way. You'd have to wait until you got home or pull out your laptop and try to fix it. New way. You open the ChatGPT app.

You tell Codex, hey, fix this bug. Codex starts working on your home computer. Asks you to approve a few things. You tap yes.

By the time you get home, the bug is fixed. Magic. Use case two. Big refactors.

A refactor is when you rewrite a big chunk of code to make it cleaner. These take hours or days. With this update, you start the refactor before bed. You go to sleep.

Codex works all night on your machine. Every once in a while, it asks you something. You wake up, check your phone, approve a few things, go back to bed, wake up, refactor done. Insane.

Use case three. Reviewing pull requests from anywhere. A pull request is when someone on your team wants to add code to your project. You usually have to be at your computer to review it.

Now, you can do it from your phone, from bed, from a coffee shop, from the beach. Codex pulls up the changes, shows you what's different. You decide if you want it in or not. Done.

Use case four. Spinning up new ideas. You're sitting at dinner. You get a cool idea for an app.

Old way, you forget it by the time you get home. New way, you pull out your phone. You tell Codex, hey, start building this. By the time you get home, you've got a working prototype waiting for you.

That's wild. Now I know what some of you are thinking. Wait, is the phone actually doing the coding? No.

Big no. The phone is just the controller. The actual coding happens on your computer. Your laptop, your Mac, your dev box, whatever machine you set up.

The phone just lets you see what's happening and tell the agent what to do. Think of it like a TV remote. The remote doesn't play the show. The TV plays the show.

The remote just changes the channel. That's important. Because some people might worry, is my code on my phone? Is it on open AI servers?

Where does it live? Your code lives where it always lived. On your machine. The phone just streams a view of it.

That's it. Okay, here's where I want to slow down. Because I think most people are going to miss the real story here. Everyone is going to say, cool, Codex is on mobile now.

That's the small story. The big story is what this means for how we work. We're moving into a world where you don't sit at a desk and use AI. You give AI a job.

You walk away. AI does the job. AI asks you stuff when it needs help. You answer from wherever you are.

AI keeps going. AI tells you when it's done. You check the work. Done.

This is not AI as a tool. This is AI as a worker. And once a few hundred million people start working this way, everything changes. How we hire, how we build, how we run companies, even how we sleep.

Because guess what? Your AI worker doesn't sleep. It can work all night, every night, forever. Now think about this.

What happens when you've got five AI workers running at the same time, 10, 50? You become a manager of AI workers, not a coder anymore, a manager. That's a whole new job, and it's coming fast. I'm telling you, the people who get good at this in the next year are going to have a huge head start.

Huge. And here's the thing. You don't need to be a hardcore coder to use this. You don't need a computer science degree.

You just need to know what you want to build and how to ask for it. The AI handles the rest. That's why I keep telling everyone, now is the time to learn this stuff. Not next year, now.

Because the gap between people who use AI agents and people who don't is going to be massive. Okay, before I wrap up, two quick things. First, if you're serious about using AI agents like Codex to grow your business and save hours every week, come join my AI Profit Boardroom. We go deep on how to set up AI workers, how to automate boring tasks, and how to scale your business with AI.

You'll get the full playbook on tools, just like this Codex update. Link is in the description. Come check it out. And second, if you want the full process, all the step-by-step guides, and over 100 AI use cases, just like this one, come join the AI Success Lab.

It's my free AI community. Links are in the comments and the description. You'll get all the notes from this video, plus access to over 38,000 members who are crushing it with AI every single day. Come hang out with us.

We'll teach you everything. Drop a comment below. Tell me what you build with Codex. Julian reads every single one.

See you in the next one.

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