alt Hacker Newsbut that's why I like Codex CLI, it's so bare bone and lightweight that I can build lots tools on top of it. persistent thinking tokens? let me have that using a separate file the AI writes to. the reasoning tokens we see aren't the actual tokens anyway; the model does a lot more behind the scenes but the API keeps them hidden (all providers do that).
Codex is wicked efficient with context windows, with the tradeoff of time spent. It hurts the flow state, but overall I've found that it's the best at having long conversations/coding sessions.