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How can it be a skill problem when the tool itself is sold as being skilled?
Serious question? Is it a tool problem or a skill problem when a surgeon doesn't know how to use a robotic surgery assistant/robot?
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
#232Not sure why they used React for a CLI. The code in the repo feels like it was written by an LLM—too many inline comments. Interestingly, their agent's system prompt mentions removing inline comments https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-cli/src/util....
> - Remove all inline comments you added as much as possible, even if they look normal. Check using \`git diff\`. Inline comments must be generally avoided, unless active maintainers of the repo, after long careful study of the code and the issue, will still misinterpret the code without the comments.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not just select Gemini Pro 2.5 in Copilot with Edit mode? Virtually unlimited use without extra fees. Copilot used to be useless, but over the last few months has become quite excellent once edit mode was added.
copilot (and others) try to be too smart and do context reduction (to save their own wallets). I want ENTIRETY of the files I attached to context, not RAG-ed version of it.
Thanks, most people don't understand this fine difference. Copilot does RAG (as all other subscription-based agents like Cursor) to save $$$, and results with RAG are significantly worse than having the complete context window for complex tasks. That's also the reason why Chatgpt or Claude basically lie to the users when they market their file upload functions by not telling the whole story.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#234https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-cli/src/comp... Hey comment this thing in! const thinkingTexts = ["Thinking"]; /* [ "Consulting the rubber duck", "Maximizing paperclips", "Reticulating splines", "Immanentizing the Eschaton", "Thinking", "Thinking about thinking", "Spinning in circles", "Counting dust specks", "Updating priors", "Feeding the utility monster", "Taking off", "Wireheading", "Counting to i…
Uhh… why is React in a terminal tool?
Presumably the people that developed it have a lot of pre-existing React knowledge so it was the easiest path forward.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#235notes "Zero setup — bring your OpenAI API key and it just works!"
requires NPM >.>
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#236Tried it out on a relatively large Angular project.
> explain this codebase to me
> doing things and thinking for about 3 minutes
> error: rate_limit_exceeded
Yeah, not the best experience.
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#237So, OpenAI’s Codex CLI is Claude Code, but worse? Cursor-Agent-Tools > Claude Code > Codex CLI https://pypi.org/project/cursor-agent-tools/
I've been quite unimpressed by Codex for now... even the quality of the code is worse than Claude for me
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
Claude Code still feels superior. o4-mini has all sorts of issues. o3 is better but at that point, you aren't saving money so who cares. I feel like people are sleeping on Claude Code for one reason or another. Its not cheap, but its by far the best, most consistent experience I have had.
Claude Code is just way too expensive. These days I’m using Amazon Q Pro on the CLI. Very similar experience to Claude Code minus a few batteries. But it’s capped at $20/mo and won’t set my credit card on fire.
> Upgrade apps in a fraction of the time with the Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation (limit 4,000 lines of submitted code per month)
4k loc per month seems terribly low? Any request I make could easily go over that. I feel like I'm completely misunderstanding (their fault though) what they actually meant.
Edit: No I don't think I'm misunderstanding, if you want to go over this they direct you to a pay-per-request plan and you are not capped at $20 anymore
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#239I 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…
Ever use Komment? They've been in the game a awhile. Looks pretty good
Re: OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
#240So, OpenAI’s Codex CLI is Claude Code, but worse? Cursor-Agent-Tools > Claude Code > Codex CLI https://pypi.org/project/cursor-agent-tools/
Never heared of Cursor Agent tools. And that is better than Claude Caude according to whom? Genuinely curious.