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

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cube2222 ◴[16 Apr 25 19:47 UTC] No.43709576[source]▶

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 using it all the time! Sure, it ends up costing a bunch, but it’s easy to justify $15 for a prompting session if the end result is a mostly complete PR, done much faster.

All that is to say - competition is good, fingers crossed for codex!

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retinaros ◴[16 Apr 25 19:56 UTC] No.43709674[source]▶

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

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1. drusepth ◴[16 Apr 25 20:33 UTC] No.43710062[source]▶

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I tried switching from Claude Code to both Cursor and Windsurf. Neither of the latter IDEs fully support MCP implementations (missing basic things like tool definitions and other vital features last time I tried) and both have been riddled with their own agentic flow issues (cursor going down for a week a bit ago, windsurf requiring paid upgrades to "get around" bugs, etc).

This is all ignoring the controversies that pop up around e.g. Cursor seemingly every week. As an IDE, they're both getting there -- but I have objectively better results in Claude Code.

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