What bothers you the most about Codex? Looking from the outside, it looks like a pretty capable harness with a pretty good client.
I use CC and Codex about equally. CC by far has the best harness but I prefer OAI's models.
- CC is pretty effortless in sleeping, monitoring, or waiting. If I ask CC to get CI green, it will correctly wait for the GitHub status check to resolve, check BuildKite logs, and iterate. Codex will usually just do one cycle usually because it gets confused on how to wait. I think Claude Code has a built in 'monitor' primitive which might help.
- With CC I can easily say here's a huge piece of work that will likely be 100k-200k LOC. Divide up the work and have cheaper models do the impl. CC will _usually_ do this right. With Codex it almost never works well for me. I have been able to get GPT 6 Astra to do this more successfully.