OpenAI Debuts Codex CLI, an Open Source Coding Tool For Terminals (techcrunch.com) 9
OpenAI has released Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent that runs locally in users' terminal software. Announced alongside the company's new o3 and o4-mini models, Codex CLI directly connects OpenAI's AI systems with local code and computing tasks, enabling them to write and manipulate code on users' machines.
The lightweight tool allows developers to leverage multimodal reasoning capabilities by passing screenshots or sketches to the model while providing access to local code repositories. Unlike more ambitious future plans for an "agentic software engineer" that could potentially build entire applications from descriptions, Codex CLI focuses specifically on integrating AI models with command-line interfaces.
To accelerate adoption, OpenAI is distributing $1 million in API credits through a grant program, offering $25,000 blocks to selected projects. While the tool expands AI's role in programming workflows, it comes with inherent risks -- studies show AI coding models frequently fail to fix security vulnerabilities and sometimes introduce new bugs, particularly concerning when given system-level access.
The lightweight tool allows developers to leverage multimodal reasoning capabilities by passing screenshots or sketches to the model while providing access to local code repositories. Unlike more ambitious future plans for an "agentic software engineer" that could potentially build entire applications from descriptions, Codex CLI focuses specifically on integrating AI models with command-line interfaces.
To accelerate adoption, OpenAI is distributing $1 million in API credits through a grant program, offering $25,000 blocks to selected projects. While the tool expands AI's role in programming workflows, it comes with inherent risks -- studies show AI coding models frequently fail to fix security vulnerabilities and sometimes introduce new bugs, particularly concerning when given system-level access.
Nice dupe! (Score:2)
This is reported in another story directly below this one!
Re: (Score:2)
Ok I jumped the gun. Same software in both, but discussing different features. My bad
You know it's the end times (Score:2)
When the ghost of msmash is duping him/her/they/them self in back to back posts.
No one who needs this product trusts it... (Score:4, Insightful)
I gotta quit speed-reading the headlines (Score:2)
For a moment or two, I thought OpenAI had announced a "Coding Tool for Criminals"
Sounds like a really nice backdoor (Score:2)
They can basically and stealthily take over your console anytime they want. Or anybody that hacks them can. Wanna bet this is not well secured?
Next great thing (Score:2)
There is a long-standing notion of a 7 year technology hype cycle, where every 3 to 4 years a new "revolutionary" technology needs to come out to keep the venture capital investing going, software and hardware vendors profitable, technology trade groups / lobbyists employed, etc.
GPT is nearly 8 years old.
What is the next technology to hype?
We've had GPT/LLM/AI and before that crypto/blockchain and before than cloud and before that .....
One new one comes to mind is on-premise "AI in a box" setups of stackabl