OpenAI admits Codex Cloud confused developers

🔥 What happened OpenAI's Dominik Kundel and Charlie Guo admitted at the AI Engineer Code Summit that Codex's shift to the cloud has been a confusing experience for many users. Codex Cloud v2, announced at DevDay in late September, aims to fix the awkward local-to-cloud handoff. 💡 Why it matters Codex launched in May 2025 as a cloud agent for parallel tasks, but only now is the experience becoming usable. Instead of treating local and cloud sessions as separate worlds, they're merging into a single executor model — complete with voice control and personal agents ("dots"). ⚡ Our take Frontier labs are shipping coding agents weekly, but the UX lags behind. If developers can't intuitively delegate cloud tasks, they lose the exact productivity edge these tools promise.