Garry Tan warned the change risks proprietary platform lock-in.
@simonw Thanks for flagging - looking into this! 馃憖
I'm really upset about this: OpenAI's Codex Desktop had a "Copy as Markdown" option for exporting full chat transcripts, but the feature vanished in an update a couple of days ago
Genuinely my single favorite feature of Codex compared to Claude Code https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25201
This sounds like a small thing but it's big. Platforms need to stay open and it shouldn't require a lot of work to get your data.
Because where the AI harness wars are going... someone else's harness is just going to be you sharecropping someone else's AI ecosystem.
I'm really upset about this: OpenAI's Codex Desktop had a "Copy as Markdown" option for exporting full chat transcripts, but the feature vanished in an update a couple of days ago
Genuinely my single favorite feature of Codex compared to Claude Code https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25201
Garry Tan warned the change risks proprietary platform lock-in.
@simonw Thanks for flagging - looking into this! 馃憖
I'm really upset about this: OpenAI's Codex Desktop had a "Copy as Markdown" option for exporting full chat transcripts, but the feature vanished in an update a couple of days ago
Genuinely my single favorite feature of Codex compared to Claude Code https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25201
Positive users praised OpenAI's quick fix restoring the Markdown export feature in Codex Desktop and stressed avoiding data lock-in, while negative users saw the removal as manipulative platform dependency.
