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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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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.

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

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If one of these tools has broad model support (like aider) it would be a game changer.

https://github.com/BismuthCloud/cli

We’ve been working to open source ours. Should work with any open router model that supports tool calling.

Ours is agentic mode first.

Guess this is me dropping it live there may be rough edges as we’ve been prepping it for a little bit

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

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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…

I got confused, so to clarify to myself and others - codex is open source, claude code isn't, and the referenced decompilation tweets are for claude code.

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

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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.

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

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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.

I didn't know this, thank you for the anecdata! Do you think it'd be more reasonable to generalize my suggestion to "This CLI should be included as part of ChatGPT's pricing"?

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

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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.

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.

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

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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.

Anecdotally, Claude code performs much better than Claude within Cursor. Not sure if it’s a system prompt thing or if I’ve just convinced myself of it because the aesthetic is so much better, but either way the end result feels better to me.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

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

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

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
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