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Re: GPT-5.6

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I use both Claude and Codex, but mostly Claude for planning and coding, and Codex to review Claude’s work.

I follow a sort of waterfall workflow which is verbose but fully transparent.

Anthropic’s $100 subscription works fine for me, but whatever subscription my company has with OpenAI reaches the 5hr limit ridiculously quickly.

Re: GPT-5.6

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You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how you feel about someone else's posts. Doing it repeatedly crosses into harassment, and you've done it more than 3 times now - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504654 So please especially stop doing that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit…

Those 2 comments are from a month ago, on the same day, and my point was he was spamming those threads with basically the same comment, and he links often to his site and his posts are all about his software. Both of my replies you link have positive counts (with sure had plenty of downvotes as he had positive upvotes), and even now after your link probably added more downvotes to mine. And other commenters in those threads agree with me.

HN search shows 21 comments in the past month from simonw+pelican: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

You can choose to look the other way but 3 comments out of 21, where 2 were kind of the same one on the same day, and 27 days ago... But you say "repeatedly crosses into harassment" as if I'm a troll chasing him around.

I was caring about the quality of this site with my 18 year old account... Unbelievable.

But as you bless him, I give up. It's your site. Quite a bummer after I defended you many times over the years, though. I remember in the beginning your interventions were not generally welcome.

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His comment is now 12th in this thread and there are comments saying his pelican SVG test is pointless. At least there's some sanity with other users. Or are they harassing him, too?

Sadly his other comment on Hy3 thread is still the top comment. And of course it also has a link to his site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848950

Re: GPT-5.6

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Ok long time Claude Code user here; lately I've started to realize there's other great models out there I should be trying, but I'm hesitant to leave Claude Code behind for something new. What's the consensus today on codex vs claude code, does it really matter anymore?

I run my AI agent as a different user (in addition to using the sandbox functionality provided by cc/codex). It does not seem possible to run the Codex GUI as a different user. I can run the TUI (/Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/codex) but it has the shortcoming that remote control is only available in the GUI.

I installed the Claude Code Codex skill provided by Anthropic and I am having Claude invoke it automatically to review all plans and changes. The nice thing about this is that for an additional $20/month pro plan I can extend the runway for Claude rate limiting and compare frontier model responses. I am looking for more ways now to work in Codex as a subagent that gets used automatically from Claude Code.

Re: GPT-5.6

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Ok long time Claude Code user here; lately I've started to realize there's other great models out there I should be trying, but I'm hesitant to leave Claude Code behind for something new. What's the consensus today on codex vs claude code, does it really matter anymore?

Consensus itself does NOT matter, omp is objectively the best harness for power users yet it has 0 hn posts about it, zero. You're fully free to use and try anything and without caring about what others think is right

omp.sh is unreadable. I've tried understanding what exactly this is and it's just a wall of edgy sounding slop.

Re: GPT-5.6

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> ...tips for using the model: > Avoid generic brevity instructions: GPT-5.6 is more sensitive than GPT-5.5 to instructions such as “Be concise,” “Keep it short,” or “Use minimal text.” I don't follow. Isn't "the model actually cares and will do what you say" a reason to use those kinds of instructions more liberally?

I think they’re saying it’s irrelevant now, possibly because it’s less likely to trail off on meandering thought bubbles.

Does anyone else feel each model is like watching your kids grow up. They we're bubbly and fun and weird, you needed to tell them to sit down and be quiet.

Now if you tell them too much they go mute or stop telling you important information. Oh intelligence!

Re: GPT-5.6

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Can't use a claude code subscription in another harness though

You absolutely can; they are not banning anymore. The bigger problem is that subscription versions of the models are way crappier than when the "same" model is hit via API (Bedrock/Vertex) You can also make it not count against extra usage. OpenCode docs show it because Anthropic specifically ambushed them with a PR to remove support so simpletons can't use it easily.

This is not at all aligned with my experience. Do you have a source for this?

Re: GPT-5.6

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I use both Claude and Codex, but mostly Claude for planning and coding, and Codex to review Claude’s work. I follow a sort of waterfall workflow which is verbose but fully transparent. Anthropic’s $100 subscription works fine for me, but whatever subscription my company has with OpenAI reaches the 5hr limit ridiculously quickly.

How do you couple them together efficiently? The nice thing about Codex or Claude is that the delegation or multi agent workflow capabilities are just built-in.

Do you link one with the other as a skill or mcp or so?

Re: GPT-5.6

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Not specific to OpenAI / Codex, but I'm curious what people are doing to protect themselves from any destructive actions by their coding agents? Just install and pray? Explicity approve all actions? Reconfigure for safety? Run in a sandbox (Docker) ?

I run codex in a dedicated vm, I have a cronjob which resets it to clean installed state every week. Nothing too fancy just bhyve and debian, 8gb mem. It has root access there, can install stuff, no permissions to push to protected branches etc. It didn't take very long to setup, and I can sleep a bit better...

Re: GPT-5.6

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Use a harness that doesn't lock you into a moat, like OpenCode.

Codex is open source and lets you use any model https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/config-file/config-advanced#o...

Only its CLI is open source. The desktop app is always proprietary.

Re: GPT-5.6

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Ok long time Claude Code user here; lately I've started to realize there's other great models out there I should be trying, but I'm hesitant to leave Claude Code behind for something new. What's the consensus today on codex vs claude code, does it really matter anymore?

I had to switch to Opencode from Claude code because the latter wasn’t supporting GitHub Copilot as model provider.

I didn’t think I could have found a better solution, spawning multiple subagents with different models is such a great thing.

I built in the past very small cli wrappers to call other models; Claude Code often refuses to do that, lies and does the job itself instead of delegating to another provider’s llms.

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