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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

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Post by esafak »

cube2222 wrote: post #84
retinaros wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ok but in what way a terminal is a bettter UI than an IDE? I am trying all of them on a weekly basis and windsurf UX seems miles ahead/ more efficient than a terminal. that is also what OAI believes or else they wouldnt try to buy it

I like the terminal UX because VS Code (and any forks of it) is not my editor of choice, and swapping around to use an editor just for AI coding is annoying (I was doing that with the Zed Assistant a lot). With Claude Code I can stay in Goland, and have Claude Code in the terminal.

You could also try JetBrains' Junie and Sourcegraph Cody.

Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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Post by esafak »

taneq wrote: post #60
danenania wrote: post #36

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I think it depends a lot on how you value your time. I'm personally willing to spend hundreds or thousands per month happily if it saves me enough hours. I'd estimate that if I were to do consulting, I'd likely be charging in the $150-250 per hour range, so by my math, it's pretty easy to justify any tools that save me even a few hours per month.

How do you price this in? If you’re charging by the hour, paying out of pocket to reduce your hours seems self-defeating unless you raise your rates enough to cover both the costs and the lost hours. I can’t imagine too many clients would accept “I’m very expensive per hour because I’m fast, because I get AI to do most of it.”

As the OP said, he can now tackle more complex tasks:

> More powerful AI tools allow me to build things it would otherwise be impossible to build...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43709775

Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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Post by gklitt »

ilaksh wrote: post #102
gklitt wrote: post #74

I tried one task head-to-head with Codex o4-mini vs Claude Code: writing documentation for a tricky area of a medium-sized codebase. Claude Code did great and wrote pretty decent docs. Codex didn't do well. It hallucinated a bunch of stuff that wasn't in the code, and completely misrepresented the architecture - it started talking about server backends and REST APIs in an app that doesn't have any of that. I'm curiou…

Did you try the same exact test with o3 instead? The mini models are meant for speed.

I want to but I’ve been having trouble getting o3 to work - lots of errors related to model selection.

Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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Post by groby_b »

throwaway314155 wrote: post #56
georgewsinger wrote: post #48

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Insane that people would downvote a totally reasonable comment offering a competing alternative. HN is supposed to be a community of tech builders.

I would wager a sizeable chunk of the people here have no idea about the nature of this site's ownership/origin. This crowd finds this sort of thing to be a sort of astro-turfing - not communal. edit: And I can't say I disagree.

It'a github link for an MIT-licensed project...

If the community considers that astroturfing, we have completely lost the plot what building is.

Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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Post by torginus »

cube2222 wrote: post #31
cglong wrote: post #22

There'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.

Coding agents use extreme numbers of tokens, you’d be getting rate limited effectively immediately. A typical small-medium PR with Claude Code for me is ~$10-15 of API credits.

Trust me bro, you don't need RAG, just stuff your entire codebase into the prompt (also we charge per input token teehee)

Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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Post by kristopolous »

axkdev wrote: post #28
swyx wrote: post #2

related 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 wit…

there's goose. plandex and aider also there's kilo as a new fork of roo.

Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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Post by greymalik »

SoftTalker wrote: post #81
danenania wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it depends a lot on how you value your time. I'm personally willing to spend hundreds or thousands per month happily if it saves me enough hours. I'd estimate that if I were to do consulting, I'd likely be charging in the $150-250 per hour range, so by my math, it's pretty easy to justify any tools that save me even a few hours per month.

Are you still working 40 hours a week? If so, what's the difference?

Accomplishing more in that 40 hours?

Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

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Post by Firerouge »

therealmarv wrote: post #100
cube2222 wrote: post #88

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In terms of terminal-based and open-source, I think aider is the most popular one.

yes! It's great! I like it! But it has one downside: It's not so good on unknown big complex code bases where you don't know how it's structured. I wished they (or somebody else) would add an AI or an automation to add files dynamically or in a smart way when you don't know the codebase structure (with the expense of burning more tokens). I'm thinking Codex (have not checked it yet), Claude Code, Anon Kode and all th…

I was under the impression Aider did exactly what you're describing using it's repo map feature.
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