So a crappy version of aider?
OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
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Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#22There's a lot of tools now with a similar feature set. IMO, the main value prop an official OpenAI client could provide would be to share ChatGPT's free tier vs. requiring an API key. They probably couldn't open-source it then, but it'd still be more valuable to me than the alternatives.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#23Apologies for the HN rule breaking of discussing the comments in the comments, but the voting behavior in this thread is fascinating to me. It seems like this is super controversial and I'm not sure why.
The top comments have a negative score right now, which I've actually never seen.
And also it's a top post with only 15 comments, which is odd.
All so fascinating how outside the norm OpenAI is.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#24Cool to see more interesting terminal based options! Looking forward to trying this out. I've been working on something related—Plandex[1], an open source AI coding agent that is particularly focused on large projects and complex tasks. I launched the v2 a few weeks ago and it is now running well. In terms of how to place it in the landscape, it’s more agentic than aider, more configurable and tightly controlled than…
People are downvoting you for self promotion. But I will try it. I’m very interested in agentic assistants that are independent. Aider is my go-to tool but sometimes I just want to let a model rip through a code base.
Thanks, I tried to tone down the self promotion. To be completely honest, I was up all night coding so I'm not quite at 100% at the moment lol. I have massive respect for OpenAI and didn't mean to to try to distract from their launch. Sorry to anyone I annoyed!
I really appreciate your willingness to try Plandex and look forward to hearing your feedback! You can ping me in the Plandex Discord if you want—would love to get more HNers in the channel: https://discord.com/invite/plandex-ai
Or email me: dane@plandex.ai
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#25Apologies for the HN rule breaking of discussing the comments in the comments, but the voting behavior in this thread is fascinating to me. It seems like this is super controversial and I'm not sure why. The top comments have a negative score right now, which I've actually never seen. And also it's a top post with only 15 comments, which is odd. All so fascinating how outside the norm OpenAI is.
People are getting fed up with hijacking to promote a competing business or side project.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#26Fingers crossed for this to work well! Claude Code is pretty excellent.
I’m actually legitimately surprised how good it is, since other coding agents I’ve used before have mostly been a letdown, which made me only use Claude in direct change prompting with Zed (“implement xyz here”, “rewrite this function with abc”, etc), so very hands-on.
So I’ve went into trying out Claude Code rather pessimistically, and now I’m using it all the time! Sure, it ends up costing a bunch, but it’s easy to justify $15 for a prompting session if the end result is a mostly complete PR, done much faster.
All that is to say - competition is good, fingers crossed for codex!
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#27Fingers crossed for this to work well! Claude Code is pretty excellent. I’m actually legitimately surprised how good it is, since other coding agents I’ve used before have mostly been a letdown, which made me only use Claude in direct change prompting with Zed (“implement xyz here”, “rewrite this function with abc”, etc), so very hands-on. So I’ve went into trying out Claude Code rather pessimistically, and now I’m u…
Fingers crossed for what?
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#28related demo/intro video: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1912556874211422572 this is a direct answer to claude code which has been shipping furiously: https://x.com/_catwu/status/1903130881205977320 and is not open source; there are unverified comments that they have DMCA'ed decompilations https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1899997417736724858?s=46 by total coincidence we're releasing our claude code interview later this…
Hey! The weakest part of Claude Code I think is that it's closed source and locked to Claude models only. If you are looking for inspiration, Roo is the the best tool atm. It offers far more interesting capabilities. Just to name some - user defines modes, the built in debug mode is great for debugging, architecture mode. You can, for example, ask it to summarize some part of the running task and start a new task with fresh context. And, unlike in Claude Code, in Roo the LLM will actually follow your custom instructions (seriously, guys, that Claude.md is absolutely useless)! The only drawback of Roo, in my opinion, is that it is NOT a cli.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
People somehow seem to be adverse to making the shift from GIF to H.264
To be fair, terminal output is one of the few things where GIF's LZW compression and limited color palettes shine at.
Not as much as https://asciinema.org/ - when you can use that...
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#30There's a lot of tools now with a similar feature set. IMO, the main value prop an official OpenAI client could provide would be to share ChatGPT's free tier vs. requiring an API key. They probably couldn't open-source it then, but it'd still be more valuable to me than the alternatives.
Why would they? They want to compete with claude code and that's not possible on a free tier.