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One more article praising Codex CLI over Claude Code. Decided to give it a try this morning.

A simple task that would have taken literally no more than 2 minutes in Claude Code is, as of now, 9m+ and still "inspecting specific directory", with an ever increasing list of read files, not a single line of code written.

I might be holding it wrong.

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What I understand is Codex takes more time to gather context to make the relevant changes; with more context it may give a more precise response than Claude Code.

With Claude Code, I can 'tune' the prompt by feeling how much context the model needs to perform it's task. I can mention more files or tell it to read more code as needed.

With one hour of experience of Codex CLI, every single prompt - even the most simple ones - are 5+ minutes of investigation before anything gets done. Unbearable and totally unnecessary.

It has the same context. It does not take that long to ingest a bunch of files. OpenAI is just not offering the same level of performance, probably due to oversubscription.

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