Cloud agents are all experiments for now, and Codex on a Mac still does the work
The author compares cloud agents like GrokBot, GPT Work, Meta Muse and Claude Cowork, says no setup has proven itself yet, and still relies on Codex running on a Mac.
Currently… all of the frontier companies, and others, are experimenting with different types of cloud computers that power GrokBot, GPT Work, Meta Muse, Claude Cowork, and countless others. It’s hard to tell what works best, so I’m limiting my use of the above-mentioned tools to experimentation. I’m not committing to any one of them because I don’t know what the right cloud agent setup is yet… nobody does. Especially for business. What I do know is that macOS is elite. Codex + Astra can do basically anything on a Mac. I can remotely control Codex from my phone, iPad, or another lightweight laptop. My Mac has 48GB of RAM, it’s fast, it has my browser with all the accounts I need already signed in, and I can fully control the computer remotely from any device. Codex is getting scary good at controlling advanced software through computer use, like DaVinci Resolve and Premiere. It has access to all of my videos on an external hard drive, and it’s plugged into all of the tools I use for work, like Notion and Google Drive. This setup is more powerful than OpenClaw, and more predictable. It is however, token guzzling.