Managing Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI with Homebrew and mise

To simplify setup across multiple Macs, I migrated Codex CLI and Gemini CLI to Homebrew and Claude Code to mise's install script.

Giving AI Coding CLIs Full Permission to Run Autonomously - Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Compared

To let AI coding CLIs run autonomously, you need to configure their permission settings. Claude Code has --dangerously-skip-permissions and auto mode. Codex CLI has --full-auto and --yolo. Gemini CLI has --approval-mode yolo. This post compares the three tools' permission models and explains which mode to use in which situation.

Should Every Service Ship a Claude Code Plugin? — Rethinking Distribution After codex-plugin-cc

OpenAI's official codex-plugin-cc is genuinely good: I never had to leave Claude Code to drive Codex reviews and investigations. Plugins are working as a distribution channel that delivers a service inside the surface developers already use. Starting from codex-plugin-cc's design, this post discusses which services should ship plugins from day one, and the tradeoffs to weigh before committing.

CLI Agent License Comparison and Commercial Use Guide - Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI

License investigation results for embedding CLI Agents into your product. Explains the differences between Claude Code (proprietary) and Codex/Gemini CLI (Apache 2.0), along with commercial use considerations.

Codex CLI Zombie Processes Consuming CPU and Temporary Fix with pkill

A mysterious CPU spike on my dev machine... the culprit was zombified Codex CLI. Here's a quick and dirty workaround using pkill in cron until a proper fix is available.

Letting Codex Drive Your Browser with the Codex Chrome Extension — Hands-On Impressions and Splitting Work with Claude in Chrome

This is the Codex-side companion to the Claude in Chrome piece from earlier this year. The Codex Chrome extension launched on May 7, 2026, and takes the same 'AI in a sidebar extension' shape as Claude in Chrome, but tilts noticeably toward developer workflows (DevTools access, driving a local web app under test, and cross-tab context). This post walks through what two-plus months of daily-driver use looks like and how work splits between the two extensions.

Refactor an existing product fast with Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol first

The previous post's lesson was one I wrote after paying for it. I turned Loop Engineering on for an existing product, and two weeks in, debt really had piled up at ten times the usual speed underneath gates that kept passing. This post is about that regret and the human-driven, high-throughput refactor I went back to run instead, with Claude Fable 5 planning and GPT-5.6 Sol implementing, both on their light settings.

Hand It an Issue, Get Back a PR — A Hermes Agent Skill Looping Between Codex and Claude Code

When agents write the code, the highest-value human work is neither writing nor reviewing it. It is building the foundation the loop runs on, and planning the issue. Shipping this skill made that conclusion concrete.

Accelerating Java and Spring Boot Web App Development with AI Coding Agents — Repository Practices for the Claude Code and Codex Era

The biggest lever for running AI coding agents fast on Java and Spring Boot is not model selection but shaping the repository so the AI cannot misread it. Pin the boundaries with Spring Modulith and hexagonal architecture, enforce them mechanically with ArchUnit and Modulith verify in CI, reproduce databases locally with Testcontainers @ServiceConnection, and expose your running app to AI through the Spring AI 1.1 MCP Server Boot Starter. This post lays out the full setup for AI-native Java and Spring Boot development.

Pick Your Coding-Agent Model by Opportunity Cost — Why I Run Fable 5 Low and Codex 5.6 Sol Light for Speed

Lately I've deliberately defaulted to light, fast settings: Fable 5 at the Low reasoning level in Claude Code, and 5.6 Sol at the Light reasoning level and the Fast speed level in Codex. Today's high-intelligence models fail with the same shape of mistakes whether you spend a lot of reasoning tokens or a few. If the failure mode is the same, review effort doesn't change, and what matters isn't token cost but wait time, which is opportunity cost. Hard to see, but its dominance is obvious once you accept that humans are the bottleneck.

Reviewing a PR with Claude Code and Codex at Once — Automating Multi-Model Review as a Hermes Agent Skill

A code review from a single model inherits that model's blind spots wholesale. So have independent models read the same diff, and trust the findings where they overlap. Here is how that workflow became a single command.

Comparing Multi-Platform Strategies: Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini

The three major AI coding tool providers, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Google Gemini, have each solved the multi-platform problem differently. Codex uses a bidirectional JSON-RPC protocol (App Server), Claude Code exposes its harness as a library (Agent SDK), and Google fields three separate products along an autonomy spectrum. This post compares their approaches and extracts patterns for designing your own multi-platform product.

Why I Quit Pomodoro in the AI Era - Let AI Run on Autopilot While Humans Rest

25 minutes on, 5 minutes off. I quit Pomodoro after years of faithful practice. When AI agents can work autonomously for hours, a fixed 25-minute timer makes no sense. My new rhythm: let AI work, and let the human rest.

Health Habits for a Fully-Remote Worker — Closing the 10-Year Fitness Gap with Walks, Mobile AI Coding, and a Sit-Stand Desk

Office workers teleworking four-plus days per week showed a roughly 10-year-equivalent decline in physical fitness compared to non-teleworkers (Meiji Yasuda Health Foundation, December 2025). As someone working fully remote, I want to write down the habits I actually keep: walks scheduled inside work hours, leaning on Claude Code and Codex from mobile, and defaulting to a sit-stand desk.