This morning I downloaded the ChatGPT Codex mac app with high expectations. The official video looked great, and I’ve always liked OpenAI’s product interactions, but after a deeper try the experience felt average, and I ended up uninstalling it with Mole. Compared to Claude Code CLI, the gap is still obvious.
I’ve seen many people argue that in AI coding, GUI will eventually beat TUI.
I see it the other way.
For professional developers, I believe TUI will dominate. Workflows like Claude Code, where everything is shell and everything is a command, make complex tasks easier to handle, keep code simpler, and make maintenance, iteration, and debugging much more straightforward. I still believe the future of serious AI coding belongs to TUI.
