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Ben Holmes@BHolmesDev
How do you use coding agents right now?
5:53 PM · Jun 7, 2026 · 96K Views
Developer Ben Holmes asks how programmers are currently using AI coding agents in their daily workflows
OpenAI President Greg Brockman amplified the query to followers.
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Many users praise the Codex app as fluid, effective, and a pleasure for coding tasks while others criticize its high memory use or call competing tools like Claude Desktop embarrassing.
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63.1%
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36.9%
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Theo - t3.gg@theo
@BHolmesDev Crazy numbers for codex app
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Ben Holmes@BHolmesDev
How do you use coding agents right now?
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Tibo@thsottiaux
@BHolmesDev Accelerating
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Ben Holmes@BHolmesDev
Sound off if you're using something else too
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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
@gdb Ok might give the app a shot. Was using Warp for Codex
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Evan@StockMKTNewz
@gdb Just so you know GPT is also good at investing
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Jake@JakeKAllDay
@gdb At this point in the week, cursor, because my codex ran out and oAI won’t give me a decent local model to run as my fallback 😔
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Ben Holmes@BHolmesDev
(you know my vote. It rhymes with Shwarp)
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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
@BHolmesDev Warp
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Ben Holmes@BHolmesDev
@theo wtf
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹@kentcdodds
@BHolmesDev Cursor
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Jake@JakeKAllDay
@NeoAIForecast @gdb At this point I’ll just settle for a 12b dense or MOE (w partial offload) of a coding FT model, that is local, closed + part of the sub. It’s easy to switch coding tools w GitHub + .md but it’s still annoying.
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Jean P.D. Meijer ― 🇪🇺 eu/acc@initjean
@BHolmesDev cursor + codex
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MartinS Brezauckis@MBrezauckis
Codex CLI and Claude code CLI with ShellX ShellX 0.2.11 - Desktop app so you can use Grok Build CLI, Claude Code CLI, Codex CLI from anywhere (Windows, macOS, WSL, or SSH) in one clean interface. ShellX preview panel for files/web/expo apps. Voice Chat, Grok Imagine (images + video), GPT Image 2, Build Mode, Agent Orchestrator API, Terminal, Secure vault, X search, drag and drop files, send to ShellX from right click menu, Use different model powers in same session https://theshellx.com https://github.com/martinsbrezauckis/shellx
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Subramanya N@subramanya
@theo @BHolmesDev yeah, makes sense. codex app feels less like chat and more like a work queue for code, which is probably why people keep going back to it.
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Jacob Hartmann@jacobhartmannx
@BHolmesDev fun fact: you can mail a printed copy of your code to OpenAI's HQ with instructions on what you want to do (in any language!), and they'll send you back a printed copy of the updated code within 7 business days. try it!
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mattmac@MatthewMac58111
@BHolmesDev CLIs for ai dev are hilarious. Like “GUIs are still an unproven efficiency tool.”
I like visual previews, an accessible index, a font from this millennium, and a built-in browser.
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Kent C. Dodds 🏹@kentcdodds
@BHolmesDev I'm not sure how to take your level of surprise about this but nothing has given me a compelling enough reason to leave Cursor. It's awesome.
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elie@eliebakouch
@theo @BHolmesDev quite noisy tbh
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Mauricio Rubio 🎧@_mauriciorubio
@BHolmesDev I can confirm #1 is correct. Everything else doesn’t even matter.
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