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There is so much less drama involved with the Codex world. You don't realize how oppressive CC is until you've escaped it. Outages, weird restrictions, degradation, accelerated usage, etc etc etc.

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Totally. My experience as well. After some time with codex you're like come on Claude can you just stfu! Haha. I now almost always instruct Claude with specific length requirements when I ask questions. Otherwise, it just blathers and blathers in the most annoying of ways. "Oppressive" is spot on in my opinion

I'll agree and expand on "weird restrictions" -- I used to check the claude usage graphs multiple times a day to see where I'm at on my weekly budget. With gpt 5.5 I don't think I'm working differently but haven't felt the need to check anything because I think I've hit my limit... once? on some egregious edge case scenario iirc

Same here - it's probably that OpenAI needs to buy goodwill with developers to infiltrate corps and Anthropic is trying to squeeze the lead into revenue. The only question is - how much longer can OpenAI burn money before it needs to start showing signs of profitability

And I know this is petty but the CC cli/harness just grates. It’s overcomplicated, performatively cutesy, and buggy. It’s in my way. The codex harness gives me what I need and gets out of the way.

Let alone getting banned out right with no reason, zero updates after weeks, and not even being able to download your chat history (despite the feature being available (I assume they vibe coded it and it does not work!). My story below;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597861

Even less drama with open models like GLM.

> accelerated usage

Can you post more information about this?

The only way to understand those moments where you sometimes Claude acts mysteriously is to be terminally online.

https://www.google.com/search?q=claude+usage+draining+site:w...

At least Anthropic doesn't bend down to Pentagon/Trump administration

Perhaps not, but I wouldn't say Anthropic is too far removed.

https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2025/Anthropic-J...

Um, the 'codex world' is the OpenAI world and there is a ton of drama and product confusion there!

Anthropic has certainly had some drama inflicted on them by the US administration, but otherwise they have just had heads down and executed with great focus. That is why they have succeeded.

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