Dev calls Codex's animated terminal sparkles "a fireable offense"
cnakazawa · x · 2026-09-14
Developer cnakazawa noticed that OpenAI's Codex added animated sparkles to its terminal prompt, and did not hold back: "It's insane that anyone would build AND ship this. Honestly, this is a fireable offense."
The gripe taps into a broader debate about developer tool design taste — whether flashy decorative animations belong in a terminal environment aimed at engineers, or are just noise.
Related event: Developers blast OpenAI Codex CLI sparkle animations in terminal prompt(3 posts)→
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