[drdrek]

I like that the trailing players strategy (Meta, xAI) is to open source the moat of the leaders. I think we will all benefit from it. and hopefully both the leaders and the trailing players will be much less powerful in the end.

[the_duke]

Codex CLI was open source from the start.

The reason they open sourced this is because grok-build uploaded entire directories.

[drnick1]

I wonder if that malicious feature was removed from the open release. In addition, if the builds aren't reproducible and people just run the binaries distributed by X instead of building from source, there is no guarantee that they aren't running a version with malware.

[radicalriddler]

What does this open source that the Codex harness hasn't already?

[logicchains]

You can't use your mouse with command line Codex.

[bearjaws]

I really hate that they added mouse integration with Claude Code.

Nothing like it prompting you for an answer and you click on to the terminal accidentally, resulting in you choosing an answer.

[minraws]

You can trivially add it to codex..

[mparramon]

Classic commoditize the complement, well done on SpaceX's side:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/