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2 trillion dollar company can't put 1 single sentence describing what something is, why it's useful, what it's for - instead barfs technical jargon.

It's like if someone handed you an arcane set of page 20-40 of an IKEA assembly manual and expected you to be excited.

About what? Exactly?

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To be fair, I don't think they do want you to be excited. They have a REST API. It does the obvious things a REST API would do with OpenAI - lets you interact with openai models via a REST API. This is a CLI for it. There's really nothing to describe that isn't in the name, it's the CLI for the OpenAI Rest API. If you don't already care about the REST API then this isn't really for you.

There is no conscientious reasoning here on their part - it's not 3D chess it's 0D chess.

It's lazy at a guttural level.

This is 'totally absent product management, even the utterly basic things a regular developer would think to do without professionals to support them'.

This would not even pass muster as Open Source for friends, or internal use.

It's very likely come out of necessity. It doesn't need to look pretty.

No, this is not 'missing helpful information' - it's missing 'essential information'.

It takes about 10 minutes of focus and attention from someone who understands the product to make a quick coherent introduction and overview, which is essential and very valuable.

There is no time/value trade-off equation where it doesn't make sense to provide that.

* This is from a company trying to convince us that their AI can automate many jobs *

It's almost disturbing is that people could see this otherwise.

"Our AI will dramatically improve your productivity but we can't even leverage it to do the most rudimentary and basic things" is a message that implies a lack of credibility.

You're still treating this like a product announcement. It isn't one. It's a repo someone found.

It could easily have come out of an implementation call with a large customer who needed exactly this. They built it, it serves that use case, and they made it public. Neither of us knows. It's not the official codex CLI. It really doesn't matter.

It is the equivalent of GitHub's `gh` binary that wraps their API for an easier DX than cURL

Take that stick out of your ass.

It’s right there in the description: "Official CLI for the OpenAI API". There’s nothing to be excited about, it’s just a CLI for an API.

> The official CLI for the OpenAI REST API.

If that’s not clear then you’re probably not the target audience for this.

it's a zero dollar company. OpenAI is a virus. It's a liability. The code almost certainly contains some trivial backdoors, since their entire infrastructure is backdoored.

Edit: look at this crap for example:

https://github.com/openai/openai-cli/blob/main/scripts/run

(just the first file I looked at.) it's obviously half of a backdoor. Some other process somewhere happens to give the other half.

bru what ? This is just a standard `go run` wrapper to run the CLI lol

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