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		dcre 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Code SDK It's very surprising that it has taken this long to see a first-party CLI like this.

simonw 5 months ago [–]

OpenAI have had a bad one for a couple of years. It looks something like this:

  pip install openai
  export OPENAI_API_KEY="..."
  openai api completions.create \
  --model gpt-4.1-mini \
  --prompt "tell a joke about a fish"

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