And yes, codex is eating my disk, too. Ironically my solution is mostly codex - I have a task which goes around stomping on detritus."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["codex"],"value":"Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["codex"],"value":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921"}},"_tags":["comment","author_madaxe_again","story_50133231"],"author":"madaxe_again","comment_text":"I\u2019ve been using it altogether too much this last month and just bought a 4TB USB4 SSD.
And yes, codex is eating my disk, too. Ironically my solution is mostly codex - I have a task which goes around stomping on detritus.","created_at":"2026-10-17T21:51:55Z","created_at_i":1792273915,"objectID":"50135481","parent_id":50135424,"story_id":50133231,"story_title":"Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps","story_url":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921","updated_at":"2026-10-18T00:10:53Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"vantareed"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["codex"],"value":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224"}},"_tags":["story","author_vantareed","story_48626930"],"author":"vantareed","children":[48626931,48626998,48627022,48627117,48627194,48627204,48627225,48627229,48627251,48627264,48627302,48627456,48627602,48627737,48627762,48627949,48628011,48628038,48628220,48628479,48628563,48628770,48628777,48628782,48628933,48629306,48629515,48629735,48629745,48631847,48632266,48633916,48634175,48635271,48635321,48636028,48637595,48638969,48639857,48644075,48687872],"created_at":"2026-06-22T07:30:17Z","created_at_i":1782113417,"num_comments":271,"objectID":"48626930","points":510,"story_id":48626930,"title":"Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs","updated_at":"2026-10-19T00:54:11Z","url":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"abixb"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"OpenAI Codex has a bug that could kill your SSD in under a year"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"https://www.notebookcheck.net/OpenAI-Codex-has-a-bug-that-could-kill-your-SSD-in-under-a-year.1326191.0.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_abixb","story_48634658"],"author":"abixb","children":[48635070],"created_at":"2026-06-22T19:11:18Z","created_at_i":1782155478,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"48634658","points":6,"story_id":48634658,"title":"OpenAI Codex has a bug that could kill your SSD in under a year","updated_at":"2026-06-23T14:07:29Z","url":"https://www.notebookcheck.net/OpenAI-Codex-has-a-bug-that-could-kill-your-SSD-in-under-a-year.1326191.0.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ben_iluvatar"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"A few weeks ago, we open-sourced our design for a cost-effective but full featured alternative to OpenAI x Work Louder's sold out Codex Micro macropad. And now, we're pleased to share that we've actually built them and they work!
Quick recap of the I/O:\n- 13 assignable keys with individual LEDs\n- rotary encoder\n- joystick\n- touch disc\n- optional edge-lit LED band
The cool part for us was just HOW our agent was able to do it when every other agentic skills, tools, and even commercial platforms failed. We put together a more detailed writeup in the linked blog post (plus pretty pictures!), but long story short, we asked our agentic scientist, Marvin, to treat the electrical engineering as a research problem.
Marvin was able to synthesize vast technical documents and best practice guidelines (e.g. scientific literature), test specific placement and routing strategies (e.g. experiments), and selectively backtrack and combine learnings (e.g. interpreting data analysis). The end result was a fully routed board (made especially challenging by some hard constraints to keep cost down) plus a reusable runbook worfklow that demonstrated Marvin's ability to enter an unfamiliar domain, learn and improve through experimentation, and unlock novel capabilities.
Some future work we've got marinating in our mind grapes:\n- an app for cross coding agent compatibility (shoutout to lop1381997 for contributing a codex-native firmware)\n- optional OLED screen, something like an SSD1306 that could fit right into the space between the knob and joystick\n- optional base with bluetooth and battery for full wireless functionality
Let us know what you think, have any ideas or feature requests, and share pictures if you build it!
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Quick recap of the I/O:\n- 13 assignable keys with individual LEDs\n- rotary encoder\n- joystick\n- touch disc\n- optional edge-lit LED band
The cool part for us was just HOW our agent was able to do it when every other agentic skills, tools, and even commercial platforms failed. We put together a more detailed writeup in the linked blog post (plus pretty pictures!), but long story short, we asked our agentic scientist, Marvin, to treat the electrical engineering as a research problem.
Marvin was able to synthesize vast technical documents and best practice guidelines (e.g. scientific literature), test specific placement and routing strategies (e.g. experiments), and selectively backtrack and combine learnings (e.g. interpreting data analysis). The end result was a fully routed board (made especially challenging by some hard constraints to keep cost down) plus a reusable runbook worfklow that demonstrated Marvin's ability to enter an unfamiliar domain, learn and improve through experimentation, and unlock novel capabilities.
Some future work we've got marinating in our mind grapes:\n- an app for cross coding agent compatibility (shoutout to lop1381997 for contributing a codex-native firmware)\n- optional OLED screen, something like an SSD1306 that could fit right into the space between the knob and joystick\n- optional base with bluetooth and battery for full wireless functionality
Let us know what you think, have any ideas or feature requests, and share pictures if you build it!
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I got my first 7900xt 20gb on a good sale shortly after they came out in an open box deal on ebay for $590.
After another 7900xt 20gb popped up on facebook marketplace recently for $420, I sniped that and then got a microcenter deal on an asus proart board, 32gb of ddr5, and a 9950x for $1050.
A couple more deals for used cases, an older 1tb nvme ssd I had lying around, and a nice PSU finished the build.
I run Qwen 3.8 27b on linux and have tuned the llama.ccp / rocm setup substantially with the help of codex and claude. I get ~80-110 tok/s depending on all kinds of factors and full 256k context windows with a 6-bit quant.
It's surprisingly capable and I love that I can run it indefinitely, tuning as it goes to behave more like a frontier model."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_chicagobuss","story_50337431"],"author":"chicagobuss","comment_text":"my 'local llm on a budget' has cost me just about $2,400 in total, spread over a bout 3 years of accumulating stuff.
I got my first 7900xt 20gb on a good sale shortly after they came out in an open box deal on ebay for $590.
After another 7900xt 20gb popped up on facebook marketplace recently for $420, I sniped that and then got a microcenter deal on an asus proart board, 32gb of ddr5, and a 9950x for $1050.
A couple more deals for used cases, an older 1tb nvme ssd I had lying around, and a nice PSU finished the build.
I run Qwen 3.8 27b on linux and have tuned the llama.ccp / rocm setup substantially with the help of codex and claude. I get ~80-110 tok/s depending on all kinds of factors and full 256k context windows with a 6-bit quant.
It's surprisingly capable and I love that I can run it indefinitely, tuning as it goes to behave more like a frontier model.","created_at":"2026-11-02T23:20:35Z","created_at_i":1793661635,"objectID":"50345562","parent_id":50337431,"story_id":50337431,"story_title":"Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?","updated_at":"2026-11-03T04:13:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"yearolinuxdsktp"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"You can't compare rustc to a large application. Yes it's a large program, no it's nowhere near as large as Codex CLI. 1420 crates.
I just did a release build of Codex CLI with "lto = false" for codex CLI binary and code mode host only, and it took 75 minutes, of it 1063 seconds for the final rustc of codex bin. Windows Defender off. That's on a 4-core 2021-era Intel laptop with 32GB RAM and a half-TB SSD. And I can't let the build run at default concurrency, because rustc OOMs the machine, so this is with cargo jobs = 4. Regardless, the final rustc call is independent of that and that was 1063s with lto=false. Previous build was 90 minutes with default thinlto for the same CLI build.
How can Codex write fast-to-compile Rust code, do tell?? Do tell!"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://yoyo-code.com/2026-is-exciting-year-for-rust-compiler-and-me/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_yearolinuxdsktp","story_50166502"],"author":"yearolinuxdsktp","children":[50174606,50174640],"comment_text":"You can't compare rustc to a large application. Yes it's a large program, no it's nowhere near as large as Codex CLI. 1420 crates.
I just did a release build of Codex CLI with "lto = false" for codex CLI binary and code mode host only, and it took 75 minutes, of it 1063 seconds for the final rustc of codex bin. Windows Defender off. That's on a 4-core 2021-era Intel laptop with 32GB RAM and a half-TB SSD. And I can't let the build run at default concurrency, because rustc OOMs the machine, so this is with cargo jobs = 4. Regardless, the final rustc call is independent of that and that was 1063s with lto=false. Previous build was 90 minutes with default thinlto for the same CLI build.
How can Codex write fast-to-compile Rust code, do tell?? Do tell!","created_at":"2026-10-21T00:06:00Z","created_at_i":1792541160,"objectID":"50174403","parent_id":50173346,"story_id":50166502,"story_title":"2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)","story_url":"https://yoyo-code.com/2026-is-exciting-year-for-rust-compiler-and-me/","updated_at":"2026-10-21T01:56:31Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"smileybarry"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"This is the second Codex bug that could have a big durability impact on your SSD, though not as severe as the first one which did infinite logging:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626930"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["codex"],"value":"Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["codex"],"value":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921"}},"_tags":["comment","author_smileybarry","story_50133231"],"author":"smileybarry","comment_text":"This is the second Codex bug that could have a big durability impact on your SSD, though not as severe as the first one which did infinite logging:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626930","created_at":"2026-10-18T14:54:13Z","created_at_i":1792335253,"objectID":"50141615","parent_id":50133231,"story_id":50133231,"story_title":"Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps","story_url":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921","updated_at":"2026-10-19T21:00:14Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pzo"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"I recently was hunting for some storage on my ssd and noticed had 14GB of tiny files in codex in /.staging/marketplace. They really don't care about our drives. Once they fix one things they break another stuff."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["codex"],"value":"Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["codex"],"value":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pzo","story_50133231"],"author":"pzo","comment_text":"I recently was hunting for some storage on my ssd and noticed had 14GB of tiny files in codex in /.staging/marketplace. They really don't care about our drives. Once they fix one things they break another stuff.","created_at":"2026-10-18T11:30:10Z","created_at_i":1792323010,"objectID":"50140091","parent_id":50133231,"story_id":50133231,"story_title":"Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps","story_url":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921","updated_at":"2026-10-19T21:01:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"cahaya"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"Until recently my M1 Max 32GB 2021 was great until memory became the bottleneck.\n My M1 Pro 8GB lasted me less than a year bcs with Docker dev stuff made it sluggish. \n32GB was great for years until AI assisted productivity got so high with Codex.\nRunning 3 projects, 3 different worktrees, each either Docker compose or running/building Electron apps. So in this high AI era productivity my Mac is using insane amount of RAM and SSD space (bcs of all the worktrees)"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_cahaya","story_49433292"],"author":"cahaya","comment_text":"Until recently my M1 Max 32GB 2021 was great until memory became the bottleneck.\n My M1 Pro 8GB lasted me less than a year bcs with Docker dev stuff made it sluggish. \n32GB was great for years until AI assisted productivity got so high with Codex.\nRunning 3 projects, 3 different worktrees, each either Docker compose or running/building Electron apps. So in this high AI era productivity my Mac is using insane amount of RAM and SSD space (bcs of all the worktrees)","created_at":"2026-08-26T10:12:36Z","created_at_i":1787739156,"objectID":"49446476","parent_id":49440111,"story_id":49433292,"story_title":"Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra","story_url":"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/","updated_at":"2026-08-26T14:53:53Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pixelbro"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"I literally have had a SOTA Codex agent delete a bunch of files just last month, but it took very specific circumstances. It was working within my game repo, in a branch, and it ran out of SSD. It had to free up some space to work, so it looked around and found 25GB of untracked files in the project, in a folder called Recordings. Might as well clean that up, it thinks. There goes all the raw Unity Recorder footage I'd ever recorded of my game, over many years of development.
So yeah, it won't go on a spree outside of its lane even with full access, but if you give it a box and tell it to go ham, it's on you to make sure you didn't leave precious unrecoverable assets in that box."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"GPT-5.6"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pixelbro","story_48849066"],"author":"pixelbro","comment_text":"I literally have had a SOTA Codex agent delete a bunch of files just last month, but it took very specific circumstances. It was working within my game repo, in a branch, and it ran out of SSD. It had to free up some space to work, so it looked around and found 25GB of untracked files in the project, in a folder called Recordings. Might as well clean that up, it thinks. There goes all the raw Unity Recorder footage I'd ever recorded of my game, over many years of development.
So yeah, it won't go on a spree outside of its lane even with full access, but if you give it a box and tell it to go ham, it's on you to make sure you didn't leave precious unrecoverable assets in that box.","created_at":"2026-07-10T10:15:17Z","created_at_i":1783678517,"objectID":"48857991","parent_id":48855452,"story_id":48849066,"story_title":"GPT-5.6","story_url":"https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/","updated_at":"2026-07-11T18:54:55Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"kev009"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"Grok build already punched above its weight and is the nicest TUI, claude and codex are clearly vibecoded by web developers that don't understand systems (eating SSDs, spaghetti logic, extinguishing kernel watch limits, etc). I think Anthropic and OpenAI are both engaged in their own theatre, trying to define and redefine what game they are even playing, trying to shift to immeasurables like safety or security or exclusivity. There's definitely room at the top."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Grok 4.5"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5"}},"_tags":["comment","author_kev009","story_48835111"],"author":"kev009","comment_text":"Grok build already punched above its weight and is the nicest TUI, claude and codex are clearly vibecoded by web developers that don't understand systems (eating SSDs, spaghetti logic, extinguishing kernel watch limits, etc). I think Anthropic and OpenAI are both engaged in their own theatre, trying to define and redefine what game they are even playing, trying to shift to immeasurables like safety or security or exclusivity. There's definitely room at the top.","created_at":"2026-07-08T19:30:24Z","created_at_i":1783539024,"objectID":"48836377","parent_id":48836079,"story_id":48835111,"story_title":"Grok 4.5","story_url":"https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5","updated_at":"2026-07-11T16:27:52Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"verditelabs"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"It has gotten harder, unfortunately. One of the barriers to entry is simply the massive amounts of data; not everyone can set aside $100s worth of HDD or SSD space to play around. That said I have done a lot of work to dramatically reduce the amount of storage and bandwidth needed.
We unfortunately get a lot of slop submissions, which is unfortunate. I think a _really_ good place to start is simply joining the discord and looking at the data we've published and trying to replicate something or anything really. We understand that not everyone is a researcher that can jump in making awesome immediately applicate submissions.
Granted, that's pretty specifically for people that want to submit for prizes and prize money. Everyone on the team absolutely loves to talk shop and interact with real people with real interest, so if you show it in the discord we are all more than happy to help, engage, fix bugs, gvmive advice, etc.
I would personally love to see more open source and contributed papyrology and translation, musing on difficult readings etc.
For the more technically inclined, testing software, pointing out bugs, and actually running and trying to fix things is a huge positive that we like. We get a lot of slop submissions that are just someone pasting an issue on our GitHub into codex or Claude. We don't want to encourage that. We can do that ourselves."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll"}},"_tags":["comment","author_verditelabs","story_48675179"],"author":"verditelabs","comment_text":"It has gotten harder, unfortunately. One of the barriers to entry is simply the massive amounts of data; not everyone can set aside $100s worth of HDD or SSD space to play around. That said I have done a lot of work to dramatically reduce the amount of storage and bandwidth needed.
We unfortunately get a lot of slop submissions, which is unfortunate. I think a _really_ good place to start is simply joining the discord and looking at the data we've published and trying to replicate something or anything really. We understand that not everyone is a researcher that can jump in making awesome immediately applicate submissions.
Granted, that's pretty specifically for people that want to submit for prizes and prize money. Everyone on the team absolutely loves to talk shop and interact with real people with real interest, so if you show it in the discord we are all more than happy to help, engage, fix bugs, gvmive advice, etc.
I would personally love to see more open source and contributed papyrology and translation, musing on difficult readings etc.
For the more technically inclined, testing software, pointing out bugs, and actually running and trying to fix things is a huge positive that we like. We get a lot of slop submissions that are just someone pasting an issue on our GitHub into codex or Claude. We don't want to encourage that. We can do that ourselves.","created_at":"2026-06-26T02:23:40Z","created_at_i":1782440620,"objectID":"48681640","parent_id":48681315,"story_id":48675179,"story_title":"An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time","story_url":"https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll","updated_at":"2026-06-28T16:02:36Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jgalt212"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"37 days maybe with Codex?
> "On my machine, after about 21 days of uptime, the main SSD has written about 37 TB," wrote developer Rui Fan, a project management committee member of Apache Flink. "Process/file-level checks show Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/23/openai-code..."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ssd"],"value":"F* file system \u2013 file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/ffs"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jgalt212","story_48622433"],"author":"jgalt212","comment_text":"37 days maybe with Codex?
> "On my machine, after about 21 days of uptime, the main SSD has written about 37 TB," wrote developer Rui Fan, a project management committee member of Apache Flink. "Process/file-level checks show Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer
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For all my daily use + Codex Desktop and some local AIs in Ollama/LM Studio (which power my Home Assistant Voice Assistants) I have an Mac Studio M4 Max with 48GB of RAM (Which I bought early last year IIRC)
It's a complete beast and runs GPT-OSS 20B at over 100 tok/sec. The GUI never slows down, and I run Sequoia still, so it is always smooth and polished. I've also never heard the fans.
I got mine for $2250 USD because I am eligible for the student discount. I got the base 512GB SSD because I store most stuff on external SSDs/HDDs anyway."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What computer are you using for AI coding tools?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_inventor7777","story_48498766"],"author":"inventor7777","children":[48498837],"comment_text":"5-10 sessions?! Wow, not sure how you keep track of those.
For all my daily use + Codex Desktop and some local AIs in Ollama/LM Studio (which power my Home Assistant Voice Assistants) I have an Mac Studio M4 Max with 48GB of RAM (Which I bought early last year IIRC)
It's a complete beast and runs GPT-OSS 20B at over 100 tok/sec. The GUI never slows down, and I run Sequoia still, so it is always smooth and polished. I've also never heard the fans.
I got mine for $2250 USD because I am eligible for the student discount. I got the base 512GB SSD because I store most stuff on external SSDs/HDDs anyway.","created_at":"2026-06-12T01:44:00Z","created_at_i":1781228640,"objectID":"48498823","parent_id":48498766,"story_id":48498766,"story_title":"Ask HN: What computer are you using for AI coding tools?","updated_at":"2026-06-12T01:47:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"zozbot234"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["codex","ssd"],"value":"> ...I'm not sure why people don't try to write more stuff in C to have more control / speed / less dependences.
Codex CLI is written in Rust, which should give comparable raw performance to C/C++. Of course you can care about the "less dependencies" point but this is somewhat less of a concern on a properly maintained project like Codex. That's not so much "wild, out of control" third-party dependencies and closer to the old ideal of proper software componentry.
> Also there is a lot more to imagine, TUI side. The problem is that most projects all copy what they already saw. For instance I just did this in 20 minutes.
This mockup is really nice and the sidebar display gives you a natural way to expose running multiple thinking flows in parallel, at least if you keep them from stepping on each other's toes with code edits (keep them all in read-only "plan" mode or working on completely separate directories/files). That's not so helpful on a 128GB MacBook where a single agentic flow brings you to thermal/power limits already, but it suddenly becomes useful on other hardware (DGX Spark, Strix Halo, lower-RAM machines with SSD offload, multiple nodes with pipeline parallelism) where you have more compute than you could use for single-stream decode."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"A few words on DS4"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://antirez.com/news/165"}},"_tags":["comment","author_zozbot234","story_48142108"],"author":"zozbot234","comment_text":"> ...I'm not sure why people don't try to write more stuff in C to have more control / speed / less dependences.
Codex CLI is written in Rust, which should give comparable raw performance to C/C++. Of course you can care about the "less dependencies" point but this is somewhat less of a concern on a properly maintained project like Codex. That's not so much "wild, out of control" third-party dependencies and closer to the old ideal of proper software componentry.
> Also there is a lot more to imagine, TUI side. The problem is that most projects all copy what they already saw. For instance I just did this in 20 minutes.
This mockup is really nice and the sidebar display gives you a natural way to expose running multiple thinking flows in parallel, at least if you keep them from stepping on each other's toes with code edits (keep them all in read-only "plan" mode or working on completely separate directories/files). That's not so helpful on a 128GB MacBook where a single agentic flow brings you to thermal/power limits already, but it suddenly becomes useful on other hardware (DGX Spark, Strix Halo, lower-RAM machines with SSD offload, multiple nodes with pipeline parallelism) where you have more compute than you could use for single-stream decode.","created_at":"2026-05-15T10:08:23Z","created_at_i":1778839703,"objectID":"48146736","parent_id":48146669,"story_id":48142108,"story_title":"A few words on DS4","story_url":"https://antirez.com/news/165","updated_at":"2026-05-15T14:14:44Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":69224,"nbPages":50,"page":0,"params":"query=codex+ssd&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":116,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":104,"roundTrip":17},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":1},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":13,"total":13},"total":13},"total":13},"fetch":{"query":11,"scanning":90,"total":102},"total":116},"query":"codex ssd","serverTimeMS":223}