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Codex has been better for me, but it's WAY too nitpicky/defensive. It always wants to make changes that add complexity and code to solve a problem that's impossible to happen (e.g. a multiprocess race condition on a daemon I only ever run one instance of).

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You just convinced me to try it. Claude just copy pastes, does search and replace, zero abstractions and I'm the one that needs to think about the edge cases.

That's why I have Claude write the code and Codex review.

that’s like having oleg kiselyov’s code reviewed by my middle school daughter :)

I didn't know your middle school daughter is a genius coder, congratulations!

You may think that's a good thing but it's not. Codex is great at coming up with solutions to problems that don't exist and failing to find solution to problems that do. In the end you have 300 new lines of code and nothing to show for it.

Same here; that’s very annoying because it adds a lot of entropy to the code, and people don’t always take the time to clean things up.

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