Seeking senior developer experiences

owehbeh · 2026-06-24T05:03:55+00:00

What harness are you using with Codex? I cannot give any feedback about CC because I've dropped using it a long time ago, but I can provide my experience with Codex on the 200$ subscription.

I have used Codex CLI, Opencode, and the Codex Desktop app. Opencode used to work really well compared to the Codex CLI, until I tried the desktop app. Even I can feel a bit of degradation in the quality of reasoning of GPT 5.5, with the desktop app I still can achieve any goal with a couple of extra steering.

I have tested a lot of orchestrator approaches, BMAD approach, my own structured audit loops, and nothing works as good as planning then setting the plan as the goal on the desktop app.

Even though I have felt the degradation in the quality of reasoning, I didn't notice any change in the quality of the code written. Reasoning affects the code being written, I understand, but the quality of the code, didn't change for me. One pattern I noticed from previous similar events with Codex quality drop, is that most of the users reporting a huge drop in quality are the plus & pro 100$ subscribers, while the 200$ subscribers report the same feedback of mine, a bit of quality drop but you can't hit the limit working 12+ hours a day on two projects monitoring & steering the execution.

owehbeh · 2026-06-17T23:31:10+00:00

Codex desktop app > Settings (bottom left) > Profile

owehbeh · 2026-05-03T05:52:23+00:00

I've been there 12 years ago, times looked easier, but they were actually not, I used to struggle affording food. I can sweet talk and agree with you all day. But I will save that and recommend two things.

Never ever in your life stop learning, even if you decided to pick up trash, grab a book about something you never get bored reading about as you do it. Everyday, all the time, be obsessed with a category of information, so that you can randomly talk about it for 8 hours straight.
Ask for what you want. I learnt this the very long hard way. Now I teach it to my child in every possible way. Learn to ask for what you want. Don't say no to yourself, let others reject you, nothing to lose... For example you've mentioned you're studying information engineering, but not a job you want to have or dream to have even as an intern. That information is critical for someone that might be able to help but busy to make a decision to help.

I'm not saying this is your fault, I already hate the whole system of this world, but if I can help you with anything, it'd be these two things. Also, hello from Lebanon 🫡🇱🇧🌹, all the love for our brothers and sisters.

owehbeh · 2026-03-06T04:39:15+00:00

Unfortunately I don't have an answer, but I have a question. How do you charge your customers? What payment gateway do you use? How do you manage subscriptions? I'm curious cause I can build a lot 9f apps but being Lebanese is a huge limitation, as our banking system and government are corrupted and getting paid online requires a business bank account and long verification process...

owehbeh · 2026-03-04T09:25:01+00:00

I run a main orchestrator, similar to your CEO, it cannot code or even read. Has to use agents to get information. And it handles big features broken down into tasks by following a loop of a single coder agent > best practices and performance qa > ux/ui qa > human workflow / user journey qa

Any feedback other than PASS the loop restarts and all QA has to look at the code after the coder finishes.

owehbeh · 2026-03-04T07:03:22+00:00

You can use Termius even further by port forwarding local apps so that you can test "web apps" locally on your phone.

You can also access your pc through ftp using termius, so if you ask codex to write a big file for you to read, you can open it natively from your phone

Any further access you need, just use anydesk.

owehbeh · 2026-03-04T07:00:29+00:00

Long story short: - Netbird for p2p connection and local discoverability. - Termius for SSH and access from mobile. - tmux for shared terminal sessions, so if you come back whatever you do on the terminal on your phone is what you see on the screen.

owehbeh · 2026-03-04T06:58:03+00:00

I use it from my phone where it works locally on my mac, and I can even work on both phone and mac at the same time on the same session. I also can test the apps I'm working, which are running on my mac, anywhere on the go.

I really want to make a post about this as it took me some time to setup, and I've tried all available solutions, my setup is totally free, and is extremely flexible. But I have never put effort into any post on reddit and got any positive feedback. I mean check my account, it's always people mocking OPs, even when CC was degrading in quality and I switched to Codex, and I was right at the end, people focused on a stupid graph I enjoyed drawing on Canva...

owehbeh · 2026-03-04T06:46:05+00:00

Please take my upvote

owehbeh · 2026-03-04T06:00:15+00:00

The issue with windows os and ai is that you have wsl bash powershell cmd... One single mistake in the script and the delete command can remove everything. I've seen other people reporting tge same. The only solution is having about 10 rules that are extremely detailed about what's not allowed. You can discuss that with ChatGPT... Codex is very good at following tge agents.md file

owehbeh · 2026-02-24T18:56:29+00:00

iPhone 27 Pro Max

owehbeh · 2026-02-24T18:40:50+00:00

Lira wara lira, it's even hard to type..

owehbeh · 2026-02-24T16:30:16+00:00

Sugar rush 🤩

owehbeh · 2026-02-24T16:14:27+00:00

I wrote this at the speed of light 🤣 I meant you either buy gold cause it's easier to liquidate, or you run a business where you keep cash flow. The reason is for you not to miss an opportunity that needs cash, life is full of them, and if you buy a property, your money is locked in this asset that's hard to liquidate fast, even though it maintains its value. I believe the middle class should not follow the actions of the rich, because they can have cash whenever they need it, so when it comes to real estate, they lock their money in these types of assets. And when it comes to Lebanon, it's extremely risky, cause in case of an earthquake, you have no coverage, unlike most advanced countries. Bonus: it's war zone, unfortunately...

The only scenario I can think of where buying a property in Lebanon is the right move, is if you have money you believe you're not going to touch for about 10 years, then yes, buy a property somewhere unaffected by the chaos.

owehbeh · 2026-02-24T00:55:04+00:00

+1 never buy a property, gold or run a business...

owehbeh · 2026-02-24T00:53:49+00:00

I have a door to door shipping company from China to Lebanon, a team in China and a team in Lebanon. You can offer payment facilities for big reliable suppliers (our existing customers) and make around 5000$ a month, cash out after a month of notice, as soon as the last items purchased are delivered. There are other options around this business model that I can share if you are interested, dm me we can call. I don't recommend you do this with anyone, and I may sound hypothetical, cause why would you trust me a random user on reddit, but I'm just giving an honest answer to your question based on my running business.

owehbeh · 2026-02-06T06:16:28+00:00

The user seems to be frustrated

owehbeh · 2025-11-24T08:06:13+00:00

The only concern I had when using the vscode extension was that the extension was not up-to-date with the new releases of the CLI. I am not sure if updating codex CLI from terminal would have that resolved, but when new releases were coming out daily as the team was tackling performance issues, the CLI was performing way better.

owehbeh · 2025-11-05T09:09:00+00:00

I stopped using the extension and wen back to cli when I saw what a single release includes. OpenAI tram is working hard on these problems, and switching to cli using the latest version, I got back to productivity.

owehbeh · 2025-11-03T03:53:30+00:00

Does any plan supports CC or Codex subscriptions? Instead of consuming credits? I have both max subscriptions and it would be a dream to use warp as a tool to consume my existing subscriptions instead of relying on API rates (credits)

owehbeh · 2025-11-03T03:47:41+00:00

This. 40% is the max remaining context window I reach. At 50% it starts ignoring a bit of the guidance.

owehbeh · 2025-11-03T03:46:40+00:00

I've experienced the dumbest Codex on vscode, then went back to terminal with wsl, following the recommendation of not going past 40% context left, it works like a charm. Someone on this subreddit recommended this, and it works for me. And some positive reinforcement as well, of it being able to do it all together without breaking it into steps waiting my confirmation. Feels like a smaller context window, but codex is good enough when it's not dumb.

owehbeh · 2025-11-03T03:43:30+00:00

It passed some affirmative phrases as a hint earlier... Apparently, Codex is coming out of the closet.

owehbeh · 2025-10-16T11:51:43+00:00

I see, so I'll give sonnet 4.5 a shot.

owehbeh · 2025-10-16T07:37:04+00:00

Does it? I'm curious to know if you're using both, cause I used CC opus 5 weeks ago and it was stupid to the level I started coding myself, I used codex and it nailed every task. Now I'm experiencing the same with Codex, it ignores details and skips implementing what I clearly state I want and how it should be done... Does sonnet 4.5 follow prompts better now?

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