I am wondering why the codex repo is open source ? Can they afford it to be open source in the longer run ?

simonw 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not much point making it closed source at this point, coding agent harnesses are trivial to reverse-engineer.

Being open source was also a useful community lever they could pull when they were trying to catch up with Claude Code.

	▲	CamperBob2 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not much point making anything closed source at this point, if the client has access to the binary.

Topfi 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What do you mean “afford”?