Introduction I've been seeing more developers say that Codex has become easier to use, more cost-effective, or simply a better fit for some workflows than it used to be. This is not a "Claude Code is bad, everyone should switch" article. I still use Claude Code at work, and if cost were less of a factor in my personal setup, I would probably be using both more actively. If you're already comfort
Building Jan.ai from Source with a Local LLM The Goal I wanted a recent build of Jan.ai. I got a 0.6.599 .deb. That's when I re-read my own prompt. The model was given a single, generic instruction. Nothing about versions, tags, or checking what was already installed. It said: Target application: jan.ai desktop application Container name pattern: [os]-[shortname] (e.g., ubuntu-jan) Ba
Hello everyone! I wanted to write this article to share my experience with agentic coding without Claude and Codex, I started dabbling with agentic coding a few months ago when Claude had decent limits on the 20$ plan, You prompt the agent: I want e2e tests, and it will study the codebase and implement them. When I've started hitting limits on Claude code, and this is not a secret that they reduc