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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 dcre »

drivingmenuts wrote: post #126

Is there a way to run the model locally? I'd rather not have to pay a monthly fee, if possible.

You don't pay monthly fee to use OpenAI models through the API. You pay per token. https://openai.com/api/pricing/

There are other CLI coding agents like Aider (https://aider.chat/) that will let you point at any model. The problem is that local models are dramatically worse than these big hosted models — I have not seen anyone claim they are good enough for these kind of tools. See https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

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

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Post by throwaway314155 »

groby_b wrote: post #124
throwaway314155 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The MIT license is basically the license of choice for growth hacking these days. Many VC backed companies follow this strategy - it serves to grow your userbase, a free-tier for developers using your ecosystem and last but not least, a chance for volunteers to do free work for you.

This is perhaps too cynical for this specific instance, but it's not overly cynical more broadly. Considering users of the site have to evaluate many of these offerings frequently, I don't blame them for having a negative gut reaction.

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

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Post by greymalik »

ChadMoran wrote: post #45
_joel wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You get the same results for cheaper by using a different tool (Windsurf's better imho).

I've spent more than 40 hours/week and close to $1,000 in API credits using these tools. For me the ranking goes. But, we all will have difference experiences. 1. Claude Code 2. Cursor 3. Cline. 4. Windsurf

$1000 over how many 40 hour weeks?

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

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Post by tcdent »

retinaros wrote: post #34
cube2222 wrote: post #26

Fingers 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…

too expensive. I cant understand why everyone is into claude code vs using claude in cursor or windsurf.

that's what my Ramp card is for.

seriously though, anything that makes me smarter and more productive has a threshold in the thousands-of-dollars range, not hundreds

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

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Post by owebmaster »

danenania wrote: post #24
lifty wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

I usually downvote this kind of post in other people's Show HN but in a product from OpenAI I'm glad other projects use the post to gain visibility.

> and didn't mean to to try to distract from their launch.

you should, that is the biggest reason I upvoted.

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

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Post by Tiberium »

Firerouge wrote: post #130
therealmarv wrote: post #100

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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.

Not really, repo map only gives LLMs an overview of the codebase, but aider doesn't automatically bring files into the context - you have to explicitly add the files you wish for it to see in their entirety to the context. Claude Code/Codex and most other tools do this automatically, that's why they're much more autonomous.

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

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Post by chucky_z »

anticensor wrote: post #109
danenania wrote: post #12

Cool 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…

How does it compare to ANUS and OpenHands?

what

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

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Post by thekevan »

siva7 wrote: post #111
thekevan wrote: post #93

So even if you have a plus account, there will be a charge for the API use? I mean I kind of get it, but it does seem like they are almost penalizing people who could code in the browser with the canvas feature but prefer to use a terminal. Do I have that right?

That's not comparable. Canvas isn't agent coding directly on your machine

I wasn't considering the agent part somehow.
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