Serious feedback on Codex Desktop: memory usage is way too high.
Even though 32GB RAM is becoming more common on laptops, a lot of people still run 16GB or even 8GB machines. Before the AI era, many of us only needed remote VS Code, light document editing, PowerPoint, and a browser. That used to be fine.
Now Codex Desktop alone is eating nearly 4GB on both my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Once you open a browser to look something up (and remember a ton of apps are Electron-based), memory is basically gone. On the Air, it starts swapping aggressively and typing becomes laggy. The same thing happens on my 16GB MacBook Pro.
It’s even worse now that people often run multiple AI agents at once — WorkBuddy, Hermes, Claude, DeepSeek harness, etc. Anyone who’s tried using several of them together will understand the pain.
Please optimize Codex Desktop’s memory footprint. If possible, consider native builds for each platform instead of relying on Electron. The current memory demand is just too heavy for real-world use.