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For just about every other harness it’s either alert fatigue answering permission asks all the time, or spending too long time hoping that you know the tools well enough to scope out a permissions file that actually works. Then there’s the “yolo in a VM” approach which also is a time eater and overkill.
Until someone solves “auto mode” with the other harnesses, I’m with Claude.
My main issue with Codex and many other harnesses is the permission flow. For just about every other harness it’s either alert fatigue answering permission asks all the time, or spending too long time hoping that you know the tools well enough to scope out a permissions file that actually works. Then there’s the “yolo in a VM” approach which also is a time eater and overkill. Until someone solves “auto mode” with the…
Its not an out of the box feature unlike Claude Code.
.codex/config.toml
---
approval_policy = "on-request"
approvals_reviewer = "auto_review"
[auto_review]
policy = """
Your prompt to the permission classifier here, e.g.,
Allow requests by default except requests involving...
Obtain user approval for denied request.
"""
I’ve been experimenting with this for a while, and right now I’m using Luna xhigh as my default. Previously I was using Sol medium. Sol medium is a great balance between speed and being thorough, but it’s quite expensive. Luna xhigh seems to compensate for slightly lower intelligence by thinking and reasoning for longer, so tasks can take more time to complete. But it’s crazy cheap. I also have some custom evals usin…
I’ve been getting good results from using Sol for planning and Luna for everything else. At current rates it barely scratches my weekly quota. Makes me wonder if the current Luna prices are sustainable.
It likely is. Going by the performance of very competitive small models, Luna is likely pretty small (do they publish sizes?) to the point it might be runnable locally like Qwen 3.8 27B.
The specialized hardware cloud runners have can likely run a small model very cheaply.
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> Sure, you can let politics dominate everything you do. I assume they're referring to the recent discovery that Grok Build was uploading entire repositories to their servers in the background, include .env secrets that had been excluded https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75f... That incident has put Grok on the no-fly list for a lot of people and companies
It was a bug, and was immediately corrected. The other harnesses have bugs too. You just don't know about them. Frankly, the people who keep bringing this up are mostly engaged in motivated reasoning. I don't trust any company, and any product where I have to send my code to a third party to make it work is a devil's bargain. I don't trust any of the major labs, but it is what it is. The only way forward is local mod…
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I’m more than happy to let SpaceX burn out over the next few years now that they’re public and their last quarter financials showed the emperor is without clothes (muh space datacenters).
Because ULA and the senate launch system is better?
I paid for Claude for only 2 months, each several months apart. Including a week of trying both Codex & Claude side by side on the same tasks with the same prompts.
I had been subscribed to ChatGPT/Codex at $20 for over a year and now I'm on my second $100 month. The whole experience is just so much better.
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I have the same experience. I have passed Codex's code over to Claude (Sonnet mostly) to simplify it and it did a so much better job. Codex couldn't comprehend a simpler solution no matter what.
Overall I prefer Codex over Claude in their current state, but I do agree that Codex's solutions tend to be too complex and I have to constantly tell it to simplify solutions, detect when it's creating ornate architecture, and proposing data models that have way too much going on. In my usage that's its main weakness.
I use Claude Code with a MCP that lets it communicate with Codex and tell it to “iterate until both of you are happy”. The agents then go for several rounds criticising each other plans and implementations, catching big and small issues on each other’s work. The end result is not perfect, but it is a lot better than what I can get from relying on only one model.
I do the same with Gemini. I have a skill that teaches any AI to use the antigravity cli (agy) to communicate with Gemini and ask to review or check decisions
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It was a bug, and was immediately corrected. The other harnesses have bugs too. You just don't know about them. Frankly, the people who keep bringing this up are mostly engaged in motivated reasoning. I don't trust any company, and any product where I have to send my code to a third party to make it work is a devil's bargain. I don't trust any of the major labs, but it is what it is. The only way forward is local mod…
There's a difference between not trusting a company because it's a company driven to chase profit at the expense of everything else, versus the same thing but it's run by a literal nazi that uses his companies as leverage to undermine democracy and enrich himself.
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There's a difference between not trusting a company because it's a company driven to chase profit at the expense of everything else, versus the same thing but it's run by a literal nazi that uses his companies as leverage to undermine democracy and enrich himself.
Elon is not a literal Nazi.
His grandfather wrote his tracts to raise an alarm about what he called “mind control,” on the radio and television, where “an unconditional propaganda warfare is carried on against the White man.”