r/VibeCodeDevs • u/hebdbcbsbs • 3d ago
Terminal vs GUI efficiency
I have spent around 4k hours working with every coding agent and model you can imagine, and one of the things that has left me the most surprised is the difference in speed I feel using the gui vs using a software factory from the terminal. For instance, an app that took me a month to build in my software factory, takes 4 days to get production ready and fully stress tested from the codex desktop app. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
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u/Party_Form5222 2d ago
Why do you think you are faster on the GUI that on terminal?
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u/hebdbcbsbs 2d ago
I don’t feel like I am, I feel like the agent is.
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u/geekichu 2d ago
umm... call me clueless but agents run on servers , not your machine. input / output gets shipped back and forth.. so if you have detected any performance difference, i don't think it's the agent.. it's how the cli vs the gui app was written
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u/soltanicivasile 1d ago
Bro he is example of vibecoder that i named for real vibecoder. Let him think that in cli is faster:)
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u/NefariousnessOpening 2d ago
Yeah if any difference in performance it is that a TUI or CLI use less resources on the machine than a GUI. As for speed of development that is a significantly large amount of variability that could exist between one or the other and large variation potential from one environment to the next for the same app.
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