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I'm conflicted whether I should keep my Claude Max 5x subscription at this point and switch back to GPT/Codex... anyone else in a similar position? I'd rather not be paying for two AI providers and context switching between the two, though I'm having a hard time gauging if Claude Code is still the "cream of the crop" for SWE work. I haven't played around with Codex much.

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I have experienced 0 friction swapping between the 2 models, in fact pitting them against eachother has resulted in the highest success rate for me so far.

Interesting. I may have to give that a shot, thanks.

I switched from CC to Codex a few days ago. I get limited much less and the code quality is similar, so not looking back

Which plan? And how are the weekly limits on that plan compared to CCs equivalent subscription?

I don't really care about 5h limits, I can queue up work and just get agents to auto continue, but weekly ones are anxiety inducing.

CC usage limits and the 5 hour cool downs are what made me realize that I can't depend on this tool in a professional setting.

I was all in on Claude code as my daily driver for web development. And love it. But I enjoy using pi as my harness more and have never ran out of tokens with Codex yet. Claude code almost always runs out for me with the same amount of usage.

After migrating for the token and harness issues, I was pleasantly surprised that Codex seems to perform as good or better too!

Things change so often in this field, but I prefer Codex now even though Anthropocene has so much more hype for coding it seems.

Every time I've followed the hype and tried OpenAI models I've found them lacking for the most part. It might just be that I prefer the peer-programming vs spec-ing out the task and handing it off, but I've never been as productive as I am with Claude. Also, I'm still caught up on the DoD ethics stuff.

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