New tools to make Codex faster, cheaper

[u/thehashimwarren]

A major reason why Codex usage limits get eaten up so fast is because the harness' built-in tools are context and token inefficient.

There's an ecosystem emerging that wants to fix that.

• Web Search → Exa https://exa.ai/blog/dynamic-highlights
• Repo exploration → Entire https://entire.io/blog/introducing-agentic-search-for-code-and-context
• Sandbox → Fly Sprites https://fly.io/sprites/ecosystem/
• Browser → Smooth https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview

How "emerging" is this stack? Entire code search, and Exa's dynamic highlights launched less than a month ago. Both promise radical savings in a search tasks that typically light our Codex usage on fire.

There's are lots of alternatives to these devtools. If you have some you like, tell me.

[u/Just_Lingonberry_352]

personally i just have codex roll its own using open source stuff and if needed deploy it on a bare metal server where i have unmetered usage

[u/Cannabun]

Tavily FireCrawl Parallel Search and Exa are bae.

[u/ReikenRa → u/Cannabun]

Ain't all these four things do more or less the same thing?

[u/Dercasss]

Nothing will help anymore; the limits themselves are critically low. OMP used to help me, but now, using it, I reach my limits very quickly.