btw it's painfully obvious that goodhart's law is the reason why every agents SDK sucks and why e.g. Codex App Server talked to over RPC is the best agent SDK - the Codex/CC/.. CLIs took off and got all the good capabilities vs the teams building dumb API wrappers fell behind
@gakonst·Jul 16, 2026·2 sources·negative
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The author criticizes current agent SDKs for failing under Goodhart's law, praising Codex App Server over RPC as the best alternative.
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btw it's painfully obvious that goodhart's law is the reason why every agents SDK sucks and why e.g. Codex App Server talked to over RPC is the best agent SDK - the Codex/CC/.. CLIs took off and got all the good capabilities vs the teams building dumb API wrappers fell behind
@gakonst
Jul 16, 2026
btw it's painfully obvious that every agents SDK sucks - the only good OSS agents SDK is Codex App Server over RPC because it's just Codex (or similar, e.g. Pi/OpenCode RPC). whereas the dumb API wrapper/orchestration libs can't keep up. shipping the org chart strikes once more.
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Jul 16, 2026
