Wouldn’t it make a lot of sense to have a single subscription that gives access to all coding agents, with the ability to switch between them based on preference or task? Constantly juggling tools and subscriptions is pretty disruptive.
20 euro per month is pretty hard to beat for Chat GPT Plus (which includes Codex). Right now a lot of this stuff in this space is highly experimental and constantly changing. I've been using codex web since before the summer, Codex cli for the last few months and Codex desktop app for the last few days. Before that, I was copy pasting blobs of code from Chat GPT and only looking at single code files.
The whole agentic coding revolution didn't really start moving until Claude Code rolled out almost a year ago now. Anthropic deserves kudos for that. Initially it was limited by small context sizes and wasn't that effective on large code bases. So, I stuck with ChatGPT and OpenAI; mainly because Claude for Desktop was a bit underwhelming and I felt OpenAI had their shit together a bit more in terms of UX, which I think matters at least as much as model quality for being able to effectively use AI. Arguably, since about the summer, Codex and Claude Code are well matched in terms of features/capabilities. Some prefer one or the other or use both. Coded had a reputation of being maybe slightly better with larger code bases. I don't think that is valid anymore as of the last few model releases.
Since about the gpt 5 generation of models released around last summer, I'm able to work on whole git repositories with codex. Our backend is about five years old; about 85K lines of code. Not huge but big enough that there was no way in hell LLMs were able to make sense of it before that. I only did the first big pull requests with codex on this backend in the last two months. This stuff is still very new.
I'm sure that with a lot of tool juggling and experimentation I could have gotten there a few weeks/months earlier But not much more. And I don't actually have time to be constantly fiddling with tools and trying out a lot of stuff. I don't need to be the first to try everything out.
I would be super interested in what you think about Cronus hq.com
I built it for myself because I was tired of rigid rule based time tracking applications.
Thank you - would be happy about your feedback once you had the time to test it.
Regarding long term plans: I think there are some interesting opportunities in adding integrations for other apps like Obsidian for example. But also open for suggestions / thoughts you might have.
Notechat is a desktop app that lets you chat with your Apple Notes running an LLM locally on your machine.
Notechat accesses Apple Notes through macOS's native AppleScript automation and uses AppleScript commands to safely read note contents and metadata directly from the Apple Notes app - this requires permission from the user through macOS security prompts.
All processing happens locally using Ollama and the notes never leave the users device.
Also working on a version that interacts with Gemini in cloud mode for better performance (but less privacy).
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