Paying real API money for Claude to jump the gun on solutions invalidated the advantage of having a tool as nice as Claude Code, at least for me, I admit everyone's mileage will vary.
It put an expensive API call inside a useEffect hook. I wanted the call elsewhere and it fought me on it pretty aggressively. Instead of removing the call, it started changing comments and function names to say that the call was just loading already fetched data from a cache (which was not true). I could not find a way to tell it to remove that API call from the useEffect hook, It just wrote more and more motivated excuses in the surrounding comments. It would have been very funny if it weren't so expensive.
Sorry what do you mean by this?
Models used to do this much much more than now, so what it did doesn't surprise us.
The nature of these tools is to copy what we have already written. It has seen many threads where developers argue and dig in, they try to train the AI not to do that but sometimes it still happens and then it just roleplays as the developer that refuses to listen to anything you say.
Any ide integration?
google models on cli are great.
I added a very short chapter on setting this up (direct link to my book online): https://leanpub.com/ollama/read#using-the-open-codex-command...
This morning I tweaked my Open Codex config to also try gemma3:27b-it-qat - and Google’s olen source small is excellent: runs fast enough for a good dev experience, with very good functionality.
The LLM field is moving so fast that what is the leading frontier model today, may not be the same tomorrow.
Pricing is another important consideration. https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
Perhaps someone can merge the best of Aider and codex/claude code now. Looking forward to it.
Only Claude (to my knowledge) has a desktop app which can directly, and usually quite intelligently, modify files and create repos on your desktop. It's the only "agentic" option among the major players.
"Claude, make me an app which will accept Stripe payments and sell an ebook about coding in Python; first create the app, then the ebook."
It would take a few passes but Claude could do this; obviously you can't do that with an API alone. That capability alone is worth $30/month in my opinion.
Of course, this is only my experience and codex is still very young. I really hope it becomes as capable as Claude.
But there are third party options availabe that to the very same thing (e.g. https://aider.chat/ ) which allow you to plug in a model (or even a combination thereof e.g. deepseek as architect and claude as code writer) of your choice.
Therefore the advantage of the model provider providing such a thing doesn't matter, no?
there's also claude code proxy's to run it on local llm's
you can just do things
> It would take a few passes but Claude could do this;
I'm sorry but absolutely nothing I've seen from using Claude indicates that you could give it a vague prompt like that and have it actually produce anything worth reading.
Can it output a book's worth of bullshit with that prompt? Yes. But if you think "write a book about Python" is where we are in the state of the art in language models in terms of the prompt you need to get a coherent product, I want some of whatever you are smoking because that has got to be the good shit