Claude can add comments in code that are better just living as a comment on the PR. You'll ask it to do something and it'll comment the code with an answer to what you asked it, rather than just explanatory comments to whoever comes after. There's also a second issue that if the code is actually incorrect, the comment can nevertheless bolster the case for it.
Claude assumes humans won't look at code anymore. The comments are for the next Claude that comes in to change something.
This is not true, the comments confuse claude itself and even eat context
It’s not better than codex / GPT in my experience. But it’s quite good. I’d say it’s useful and fast and with Cursor CLI is pretty capable with good limits for just $20 /mo. But Codex $100 plan is hard to beat.
I prefer Codex' integration with VSCode, and the variety of different ways of using it, but the code it was barfing out was just abysmal.
It's often is not helpful to claude either because it just confuses it more most of the time.
Confusion usually surfaces immediately, so it can be steered properly. Being sure of a decision that turns out to be wrong usually means a bug that could bite when you least expect it.
No it doesn’t. The comments end up complicating simple tasks, and if you open the repo after a week it takes a while to find out why Claude is reading irrelevant files or replying about irrelevant things
Sure, you can let politics dominate everything you do. Or you can realize that SpaceX is a massive (public) company with thousands of employees, and millions of shareholders, all of whom have their own opinions and goals, just like any other corporation. Competition is good. Excluding a leading player in the market because you don’t like Elon Musk is…something.
If politics isn’t a concern, why not just use deepseek?
DeepSeek is much dumber at the moment. It's barely better than Qwen3.8 27B that you can run locally.
Summer 2026 meta (well, mine): Sol is for routine work, Opus for frontend/design, and Fable for more complex / ambiguous / architecture work. Fable works extremely well to drive Sol as a subagent. Fable is the only one you can actually trust to not look at the code, but Sol is somehow still more pleasant to work with, especially in fast mode. Opus is the enemy, and it will make you insane if you talk to it for too lo…
> Fable works extremely well to drive Sol as a subagent. Curious what method you like for doing this? I've tried a few options and I haven't found one I'm happy with yet.
The important bit I found is to explicitly remind Claude that Sol 5.6 is a very smart and good model; otherwise, Claude performs its normal condescension towards any non-Claude model behavior and insists on reading all the diffs in full and testing all of Sol's work, negating any token savings.
My token usage on Claude models has dropped by 83% over the last month - I'm pretty much only using it for quick one off questions or reading papers. it feels impossible for me to get Opus models to stop entering into cyclic loops, and my work is too security adjacent for Fable. Codex has been an excellent workhorse - doesn't feel like I have to dance around the guardrails, doesn't lose _everything_ when it compacts,…
I have to agree with you there. I did some good work with Claude then Fable came out - impressed with that as well. Then they dropped access to it and upon returning was never the same - even the Opus models for some reason. Then one day I burned through my limit in about 10 minutes and had to get a project completed. I subscribed to Codex and it has been fantastic - finished my project and continued on to others. I…
my problem with claude currently is the language its using is dense and feels like its not even meant for humans. this guy is calling everything a spine, a seam, a gate, load bearing, any ui element is "chrome", it's actually absurd.
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…
Any opinions (by anyone really) on how much I can trust Claude vs. Codex (vs. something else) to not leak my coding conversations or use them for training?
I have the appropriate privacy settings set up but wondering how much I can trust each company with them.
It's only helpful to Claude in that it wastes more tokens and costs more.
It does visibly use a few more tokens in the short term. But it hurts Claude's ability in the long term if removed because it has to either think more every time it encounters that section in the code (more invisible thinking tokens used), or there's an increased risk of making a maladaptive change without context. Heck I've been bitten enough times already by it, though more recently it's cross project concern where…
No it doesn’t. The comments are hugely verbose trash that immediately becomes outdated and brittle and confusing for humans and Claude alike.
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…
Just use qwen3.8-27b on a Mac with oMLX, ANE enabled and skip cloud models.