In retrospect, the migration to Codex was one of my best decisions this year.
Our entire codebase is now abstracted, built and structured over the last three to five months for these "terminal-based" coding tools. Now, we are ripping across features.
As one might see from the latest news, TUIs (terminal-based user interfaces) for coding like Claude Code and Codex are having their moment. The shift has happened. They are probably the popular go-tos for devs (and also some non-devs!) now.
This was not entirely clear three to six months ago.
Not to toot my own horn, but I think I read the situation right here. I am glad I took the leap. It has been delightful to work directly in the terminal. These tools and the habitat represent true agent-native coding.
Looking Back
In any other tech era, after Cursor disrupted the traditional IDE way of coding, they would have held a long enough moat to build, consolidate, corner the market, and succeed.
But in this strange era, the disruption period is in months rather than years.
As I was working with these models, they were rapidly moving and getting "hungry" for problems. But they were just hobbled by retrofitting AI workflows to old IDEs. Instead of just letting the model rip.
Codex and Claude Code start from an AI agent-native perspective. It has been a great shift.
What's Next: Multi-Agent Coding
While I am here, I will make another prediction for this year. We will move from single agent-native coding to multi-agent coding. It's already happening but not yet popular. It will be the norm by the end of the year.
Consequently, the abstractions of what a good dev should do will also move.
Concretely, we will still have agents.md and skills.md peppered across the repo. But then we will have even more new primitives (A2A?) for multi-agent orchestration. And we need to master that.
I have been thinking about how to build abstractions to do this well. I have been experimenting early with OpenClaw, Subagents in Codex, and the latest tools.
More to come. Wild frontier and exciting times.