Developer says Codex harness now lags Zed and Cursor, forced to switch to GLM
dipankarsarkar · x · 2026-11-13
Responding to a "how can Codex be improved (beyond the model)" thread, developer dipankarsarkar says Codex's harness is no longer best in class — Zed and Cursor are far better. He finds Codex too rigid, with safety guardrails constantly blocking his cybersecurity-related work, forcing him to use GLM for anything flagged as "non-security." The complaint highlights a real tension in coding tools: overly strict guardrails are pushing professional users toward competitors.
Related event: Dev Claims Codex Harness Falls Behind Cursor and Zed(2 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- Omnigent 0.22.0 Adds Schedule and Event Triggers for Mixed Coding-Agent Software Factories — matei_zaharia · 2026-11-14
- Vertskim: Local MCP Server Gives Coding Agents a 3D Codebase Knowledge Graph — Queasy_Debate3423 · 2026-11-14
- Nursa's accountant and retired parole officer built real tools with AI — every · 2026-11-14
- We don't need more chatbots: an agent harness lead's field notes — threepointone · 2026-11-14
- Nexus launches an AI context engine that turns deployment knowledge into agent-queryable graphs — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-11-14
- Developer now runs 100% of his agents locally on a Mac Mini, up from 25% earlier this year — josh_bickett · 2026-11-14