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I dunno.

I've been coding for 30 years.

Using Codex I'm finally enjoying it again for the first time in maybe 15 years. Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on.

And I tell everyone I can how transformational it has been for me.

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Did you also use Claude, and you like Codex better, or are you making a more general observation about the leapfrog in creative power agents are bringing to engineering?

I’ll tell you something. I love working with Claude. It’s enthusiastic, it’s nice, it’ll give you suggestions. It’s an all around pleasant experience.

I hate working with codex. It feels like a machine. You tell it to do something, and it just does it. No pretension at being human, or enthusiastic, or anything really.

But codex almost always does it right. And the comments are right, I never run into random usage limits. Codex doesn’t arbitrarily decide to shrink the context window, or start compacting again after 3 messages.

The codex client sucks, claude code is much better. But the codex client is consistent, which is much more important. Claude was amazing 3 months ago. The model is still fine, but the quality of the experience has degraded so far it’s hard to consider using it.

This is my experience as well. Codex is very verbose which is annoying considering the limits. My work flow tends to be have Claude code describe the problem (succinct as it can) based on my mashing of the keyboard description of what I want done then send that to codex. I've tried it the other way around doesn't work nearly as good. Disclaimer: not using the 5 prompts per week opus.

Personally I prefer Codex's less-chatty nature nice. I prefer to save my human emotions for humans.

I'm totally on board with some people preferring that. I don't. However I do prefer my AI assistant to work.

> The codex client sucks, claude code is much better.

Are you using in in VSCode?

I use the web based Codex (which I love) and the VSCode clients of both. I don't think there is a huge difference in the VSCode plugins.

I've tried the cli versions but don't have enough experience to have a strong opinion.

I've used Claude too and I prefer Codex. I generally have confidence in both to tackle large scale problems I won't tackle with Gemini 2.5

I've had a few small bug that Codex has fixed where Claude hasn't.

Your comment is obviously not AI generated, but since we were talking about astroturfing on Reddit and which presumably is done a lot by bots, it's interesting to me when I read comments on what kind of triggers my inner LLM detector.

> Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on.

This sentence really and some of your other cadence somehow triggers my sense a lot. Or the comment somehow feels sloganish, formulaic. Not trying to criticise or offend, just thought it's interesting how it triggers this in my brain. And I do agree with you.

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