alt Hacker NewsI am wondering why the codex repo is open source ? Can they afford it to be open source in the longer run ?
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Topfi • yesterday at 1:05 PM
What do you mean “afford”?
I am wondering why the codex repo is open source ? Can they afford it to be open source in the longer run ?
What do you mean “afford”?
Not much point making it closed source at this point, coding agent harnesses are trivial to reverse-engineer.
Being open source was also a useful community lever they could pull when they were trying to catch up with Claude Code.