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Re: Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

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This is very convenient and nice! But I could not get it to work with the best small models available for Ollama for programming, like https://ollama.com/MFDoom/deepseek-coder-v2-tool-calling for example.

That's a really old model now. Even the old Qwen 2.5 coder 32b model is better than DSv2

Re: Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

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post #10

This is very convenient and nice! But I could not get it to work with the best small models available for Ollama for programming, like https://ollama.com/MFDoom/deepseek-coder-v2-tool-calling for example.

Thanks so much!

Was the model too big to run locally?

That’s one of the reasons I went with phi-4-mini - surprisingly high quality for its size and speed. It handled multi-step reasoning, math, structured data extraction, and code pretty well, all on modest hardware. Phi-1.5 / Phi-2 (quantized versions) also run on raspberry pi as others have demonstrated.

Re: Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

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post #11
post #10

This is very convenient and nice! But I could not get it to work with the best small models available for Ollama for programming, like https://ollama.com/MFDoom/deepseek-coder-v2-tool-calling for example.

That's a really old model now. Even the old Qwen 2.5 coder 32b model is better than DSv2

I want to add support for qwen 2.5 next

Re: Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a really old model now. Even the old Qwen 2.5 coder 32b model is better than DSv2

I want to add support for qwen 2.5 next

QwQ-32 might be worth looking into also, as a high level planning tool.

Re: Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

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post #14
post #7

Without any changes, you can already use Codex with a remote or local API by setting base URL and key environment variables.

Does it work for local though? It's my understanding this is still missing.

If your favorite LLM inference program can run a Chat Completions API.

Re: Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

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post #9
post #7

Without any changes, you can already use Codex with a remote or local API by setting base URL and key environment variables.

i think this was made before that PR was merged into codex.

Good correction - while the SDK used has supported changing the API through environment variables for a long time, Codex only recently added Chat Completions support recently.
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