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That’s how I see it too. Claude is more “fun” to use, like a coworker I have to talk to now and then to steer it, while gpt-5.6 is a task machine: I give it a task and it is very consistent, reliable and predictable in its execution. I don’t have to interrupt it, it gets the task done exactly how I wanted it, but it’s “boring” and feels more sterile

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Sol is an absolute machine. I stopped doing parallel worktrees just because the cost of context switch outweighs the cost of waiting Sol to just finish the task it’s working on which is usually anywhere from 1-10mins.

I also like Codex CLI more than the Codex App bc it’s more scriptable and displays all the tool calls and reasoning whereas in the App it’s kind of folded away/obscured. This way as soon as I see a tool call fail (eg it tries to use jq assuming it’s available but it wasn’t so I take a note to set it up as it’s obviously useful for the agent to wrangle json).

I think its amazing what OpenAI have been able to squeeze out from a model like Sol thats much smaller in size than Fable.

Yes, Codex has no comparison so far.

Do you use the annotations and forking features in codex CLI? I can't find an easy way to access them.

/fork IIRC for forking. it's open source so you can ask Codex to take a look at the Codex code

Reminds me of this: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-w...

I think this is such a great reframing. It makes so much sense; I need an AI that acts more as a HUD and gives me superpowers, not just a copilot that can tell me when I've misspelled a word.

False dichotomy, no? You can have a HUD, and a copilot, and your copilot can also have a HUD. And to complete the idea, you can also have neither.

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