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Use cmdline apps like gdb interactively

OpenAI Developer Community April 20, 2026
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sure, thanks. i think how we currently queue tasks with codex by pushing [tab] is outdated and too restrictive. i think codex should be able to accept asynchronous input just like a human would and re-prioritize the tasks as it sees fit. basically everything should be made asynchronous and event based. it’s like going from the single core one cmd at a time computers of the 80s to the multi-core parallel architectures we have now. so the same codex instance should handle multiple sessions of i/o in parallel and it will interact with each seesion based on the current state. so any one session could change how it interacts with that session or any of the other sessions in real-time. so in this example, using gdb would just be one potential session. another session would be its dialogue with the human user who might be instructing it how to use gdb or what bugs to look for. of course, progressing towards supporting visual guis could be a next step, but i think you probably want to integrate interactive cmdline sessions first before going there. anyway, for sure you will do all this, it’s just a natural progression, not that my input really matters.

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