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

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514 points mfiguiere | 1 comments | 16 Apr 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cglong ◴[16 Apr 25 19:42 UTC] No.43709527[source]▶
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.
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cube2222 ◴[16 Apr 25 19:54 UTC] No.43709643[source]▶
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.

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dingnuts ◴[16 Apr 25 20:05 UTC] No.43709757[source]▶
Too expensive for me to use for fun. Cheap enough to put me out of a job. Great. Love it. So excited. Doesn't make me want to go full Into The Wild at all.
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1. cube2222 ◴[16 Apr 25 20:32 UTC] No.43710047{3}[source]▶
I don’t think this is at the level of putting folks out of a job yet, frankly. It’s fine for straightforward changes, but more complex stuff, like concurrency, I still end up doing by hand.

And even for the straightforward stuff, I generally have a mental model of the changes required and give it a high level list of files/code to change, which it then follows.

Maybe the increase in productivity will reduce pressure to hire? We’ll see.