For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software ...

It’s also open source, OpenAI says. “ [Codex CLI is] a lightweight, open source coding agent that runs locally in your terminal,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch via email.

Still, Lloyd believes we’re already at a point where terminal-based tools can reliably handle much of a developer’s non-coding work — a value proposition that’s hard to ignore.