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OpenAI's Codex Agent Rebuilt in C++ Under 1MB
A dev reimplemented OpenAI's codex coding agent in C++ with a binary under 1MB, shared as a Show HN. Points to a trend of stripping AI agent tooling down to minimal, dependency-light footprints instead of the usual bloated runtime stacks.
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