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A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by trjordan »

217 wrote: post #10

while everyone is somehow still stuck on and fascinated by claude, heres your quick update on the sota of coding models and harnesses mid august 2026 codex is good, both cli and desktop app, you get lots of usage on any plan. sol is good! and gets the job done, write or dictate a very long and thoughtful prompt, and leave sol xhigh or max fast working on it for an hour or so omp is an amazing harness, any feature cla…

Not mentioning Grok 4.6 here is a crime. Fast and accurate.

And it can communicate, unlike the gobbledygook that comes out of Claude.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by eloisant »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #19
skeledrew wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those verbose comments provide context for why something is there way it is, so it can take those decisions in account when making changes in the future.

Those massive comments generally refer to intermediate states that never shipped, making them utterly useless, noisy and confusing as a permanent artifact. They're sometimes useful to reviewers, so a commit message or pull request comment is much more appropriate.

Yes I hate when Claude explain in comments how it is now compared to how it was before, or how it could be if a different decision had been taken.

Dude, just talk about the current state of the code!

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by CollinEMac »

beering wrote: post #2

> Changes created by Codex had fewer comments in Ruby/Ruby on Rails code. I liked that a lot, and I will soon share some experiments I ran on this. Why is fewer comments a good thing?

Fewer comments is generally a bad thing.

Fewer AI-generated comments is generally a good thing.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by sejje »

217 wrote: post #10

while everyone is somehow still stuck on and fascinated by claude, heres your quick update on the sota of coding models and harnesses mid august 2026 codex is good, both cli and desktop app, you get lots of usage on any plan. sol is good! and gets the job done, write or dictate a very long and thoughtful prompt, and leave sol xhigh or max fast working on it for an hour or so omp is an amazing harness, any feature cla…

I think harness/model pairs matter more than your analysis lets on.

I've had great luck with the ds flash v4, paired with prime-agent for the harness--I like the results a lot. And you get to see thinking tokens.

I haven't liked the model as much in opencode.

Sol & luna have been great everywhere. sol plans, luna builds.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by [deleted] »

rplnt wrote: post #15
skeledrew wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those verbose comments provide context for why something is there way it is, so it can take those decisions in account when making changes in the future.

> why something is there way it is It writes out stories describing what isn't there or what used to be there. It's usually not helpful, just noise. It also likes to write it in very verbose AI-styled prose.

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Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by ceejayoz »

trjordan wrote: post #31
217 wrote: post #10

while everyone is somehow still stuck on and fascinated by claude, heres your quick update on the sota of coding models and harnesses mid august 2026 codex is good, both cli and desktop app, you get lots of usage on any plan. sol is good! and gets the job done, write or dictate a very long and thoughtful prompt, and leave sol xhigh or max fast working on it for an hour or so omp is an amazing harness, any feature cla…

Not mentioning Grok 4.6 here is a crime. Fast and accurate. And it can communicate, unlike the gobbledygook that comes out of Claude.

> Not mentioning Grok 4.6 here is a crime.

Not yet. Don't give the guy ideas.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by smith7018 »

mewse-hn wrote: post #13

I only have the $20 claude subscription. Last weekend I was doing a fairly heavy task (porting quake to raspberry pi native GLES 1.0) and ran out of claude usage twice, then hooked in with Luna in OpenCode and finished everything off for like $0.40 in tokens, which was impressive. With Opus 5.0 being kinda crappy vs 4.8, I think Anthropic is in trouble.

On the flip side, I've been using Fable to statically recompile a game binary from a system that's never been emulated to modern C++ while also keeping the code clean, maintainable, and portable and it's been a dream. I'm in awe of how fast Fable is able to bring a 20 year old game that's largely been lost to the sands of time to SDL3. It finished the recomp in about 3 hours. The next day has been fully rewriting the functions to remove old hardware-specific quirks and then rewriting large swaths into multiple classes, subsystems, building tests, etc. Tomorrow I'm going to add mod support and then experiment with a random platform like making a Switch build of the game.

It's expensive but it's doing in hours what no one's done in 2 decades.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by sejje »

enraged_camel wrote: post #30

>> I think the main difference I feel between Claude and Codex is that Claude tries to go above and beyond what is asked and guess what you might want and then directly do it, while Codex is more like a companion that does what you tell it but will not overdo it. It will stop at the first sign that it might be done. Damn, my experience is the complete opposite of this. I have posted about it a few times, e.g. https:/…

I run sol on medium about 90% of the time. Maybe that's worth a try. Especially for a small change.
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