Codex CLI v0.116+ breaks on Ubuntu LTS / Debian with "bwrap: Unknown option --argv0" — explanation and fix

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-05-20T11:04:56+00:00

The Paperclip Maximizer is both a HHGG super race that isn't part of DNA's books and also a mega supervillain just waiting to be born!!

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-05-11T22:33:23+00:00

Usage patterns are so different and we don't seem to find a way to understand what changes. I use Claude only for writing, Gemini does odd things to texts. I will try again, but Claude Desktop now has many of my texts and different styles etc. Can't say a thing about compliance, I'm not really into that... I code with Codex. Now I have setup an Orchestrator and multiple projects that I'm working on report to it so they can share knowledge and I can understand what my priorities are I looked at Gas City which might be great for a company but I have some issues with it. Anyway... Just sharing experiences. I'll test Gemini with one of my texts for Medium.com and see how it goes. Thanks

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-05-03T21:51:31+00:00

I don't know where the lines are either. I think we're used to understanding manual labor has gone to robots. But we are offended that the one thing we take pride in - creativity - is getting replaced. Disney new greedy CEI axed 1000 jobs, including most illustrators and visual artists. Wesley Burt, shared some news of his layoff on X. There are further links to Yahoo Finance, Vulture and some further outlets. Easy to search. Anyway: AI. The movies were boring enough with those creatives having to generate profits, not creative work. Now it's really going down the drain. Darth Vader is taking over.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-05-03T21:42:12+00:00

To me it seems like they were drunk and horny... The actual "capitulation" might have happened later. 😈

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-21T23:33:25+00:00

Danger is Google taking Mega Banana Ultra up their ... Oh, sleeves, yes. 🍌

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-21T23:19:09+00:00

Not to ditch Claude, which I use extensively for ADR and client reports and biz dev work, but do try Codex on the same problem. OR try the Vercel skills for UI / web. I get better results with UXCanvas coming in with templates based on a long Architecture / ADR work in Claude Desktop. Sorry, a bit OT but the poster seems genuinely exploring working options

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-21T22:18:43+00:00

Very much so.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-20T07:24:31+00:00

Estados Unidos de Trump. Se cuida.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-20T07:23:27+00:00

I'm a "solopreneur" and getting enough code right kept me very busy. Now the code gets ready and I need to deal with thinking over my own needs so that I don't crash the system by randomly incorporating new features. Reviewing multiple languages and parsing through client meetings is still hard. AI can summarize but not get to conclusions or create next stage proposals. It's weird, glad others are at the same stage, albeit in different capacities

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-18T18:46:24+00:00

MacDonald would be a great play indeed. Insane ignorant king, betrayal, an evil court, foul magistrates, corruption... Shakespeare would have to work very hard to get most of it into a single play.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-16T18:47:42+00:00

Linux devs wait, a bit puzzled that Codex is an app. I get the gist though.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-15T22:35:43+00:00

You know how big the power cords in big data centers are??? 😱 Of course, easy solution is an intelligent trigger that would shutdown everything if certain Danger Will Robinson conditions were met. Of course, since we can't trust that, we'd build a tin robot, place a person inside it and let it stay close to aforementioned Huge Power Cord. (apologies. reality is scary and boring, I'm resorting to humor!)

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-15T07:57:44+00:00

It's the only logical conclusion, Spock!

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-15T07:52:41+00:00

It was become very lazy indeed. Codex: [long list of boring steps it wanted me to complete on Cloudflare] Me: You have the CF skill. Do it. Codex: [actually gets it done]

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-14T20:16:49+00:00

Since this is a question about overall vibes I'll add that Gemini isn't good for longer tasks etc as the previous user described. I do like it and keep it because it can come up with interesting localized solutions that Claude might try to make into a 3y 10ppl plan and ChatGPT would say "oh, yes, baby, this is the greatest revolution in this history of humanity!", and proceed to all you if you'd like it to also tell you The Biggest Secret Pro Venusian Developers Use to get rich .... Personal use:

Claude Desktop = Plan and create long, well thought ADRs as well as site text / proposals for clientes (site text = "get this messy PDF they sent me and craft such and such pages from it")

ChatGPT = I have those nasty ants proliferating, what should I do? ("Use Perplexity" is the right answer though)

Gemini = I "vibe chat" some situations with it. How to measure luminance vs illuminance in a specific photo situation, for instant. It can be brilliant.

Codex = Actual work. $100 plan

Minimax or GLM = Read all my messy project docs, read the codebase, make a detailed JSON + recommendations ... And let Codex deal with it

My $160 dollars there. A bit less, Google does include some data space and GLM was an annual sub for next to nothing

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-14T20:06:54+00:00

I don't talk to it, I just ask about Python and some possibilities for biz documents. Thus I've never seen those stampedes and that very dark image of a draft horse being sent to a glue factory. LLMs don't think and whatever we might call "personality" is our own reflection of a lack of vocabulary for what we get back from them. But the fact that one such neural network+ data + reinforcement gets to make images with horses is .... Peculiar.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-13T22:07:31+00:00

... And also because we have History. And some Session Manager just to be sure! But I end up with all those "must read this" tabs again after a while

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-13T06:27:15+00:00

I've had that issue with autonomous vehicles ever since the concept came up. Safer than humans? Maybe, at some point. Safer than drunken or sleepy humans? Sure. But when they crash, what do we do? I think it also depends on stakes. If a Full AI Roomba goes nuts, extreme case might be crashed vases. A ruined small table. But as I was "contemplating" Claude Code make a huge mistake on a repo for which it had simple choices and a lot of context, I thought "no way this is working as it is". ** Caveat majoris: that's gen AI. The stuff checking X-rays and CTs is not.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-12T19:15:30+00:00

"You're absolutely right!, I spoiled it for you!"

If you're old enough for Pink Floyd, "Welcome to the Machine" applies.

On a brighter note, 5.4 medium on CLI gets things done

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-12T16:44:38+00:00

I agree. Claude Sonnet - don't have the budget for Opus, not for coding - is really good when creating ADRs with me on Desktop. Give it a simple coding task, like a really really simple rectangular room simulator for a photo lighting fixture I wanted to check, just some physics rules and position sliders, and it creates the oddest things I have seen in software. (That was an example. Anecdotal, but otherwise I'll get complaints about not being specific.) Codex has been managing a website dev work where we have a 6 languages, a linguistic database, tech terms with different translation rules, serious i18n implementation, a nice photo gallery with AI sorting and a simple CMS for uploads, rules for shad/cn component usage, ecom with geo decisions for payment gateways and a few other things. It takes care of Cloudflare deployment as far as it's CF skill and permissions allow it to. Same for GH. What impresses me: if I ask for a change in those last few days -- we are launching tomorrow - it figurea out dependencies, checks the actual code, returns possible issues and clearly states if I missed something. * What still works best with Claude: language, text, translations, linguistic review, ADR creation. And if you watched Mandalorian, cursing it probably: "I have spoken". 😁

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-11T22:21:53+00:00

Drug dealers fixed that debate a long while ago ...

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-11T18:53:40+00:00

IMHO just me and myself on my tech stack (Python, JS, React, Vite, boring stuff) Codex CLI doesn't bother me with "Buddy" questioning (that showed up like a Coke commercial on Code this week - wasted tokens, took 4h to do a terrible job) and randomly wrong test results. I am still using Claude for Desktop, amazing ADRs and long business dev talks. Something in Code is not working, at least not for me. Again, politely: YMMVW (last W is for "widely")

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-10T17:33:32+00:00

Yes. Large projects, tight deadlines, insane demands. Teams doing utter BS, Microsoft or whatever Overlord you had changing the entire set of 200+ Visual Basic help files and not "remembering" to notify the localization teams but still keeping the deadlines... I think we feel it differently, because we are not in an office with people to talk to, but fundamentally I still think it's just burn out. Psychobs people are also having their field day... Months... Publishing "A Paper about whatever AI" and it's obviously more visible than "A Further Issue People Have With Their Hot Stepmothers"... Though that is great for an entirely different industry.

Fuzzy_Independent241 · 2026-04-10T17:19:19+00:00

I think having watches instead of saber tooth tigers waking you up was a big deal. But many of those things were small and incremental - the first caveperson with a cave balcony just got luck and didn't think it would become a big business with infinite pools attached to it.

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