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Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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The light switch moment for me is when I realized I can tell claude to use linters instead of telling it to look for problems itself. The later generally works but having it call tools is way more efficient. I didn't even tell it what linters to use, I asked it for suggestions and it gave me about a dozen of suggestions, I installed them and it started using them without further instruction. I had tried coding with C…

The lightbulb moment for me was to have it make me a smoke test and to tell to run the test and fix issues (with the code it generated) until it passes. iterate over all features in the Todo.md (that I asked it to make). Claude code will go off and do stuff for I dunno, hours?, while I work on something else.

I've been using this method for several weeks. The issue I'm currently facing is that Claude Code incorrectly believes it has completed the task and then stops.

Let me illustrate with a specific, simple example: fixing linter or compiler errors. The problems I solve with this method are all verifiable via the command line (this can usually be documented in CLAUDE.md). Claude Code will continuously adjust the code based on the linter's output until all errors are resolved. This process often takes quite some time. I typically do this after completing a feature development. If Claude Code mistakenly thinks it has finished the task during one of these checks, it will halt the entire process. I then have to restart it using the same prompt to continue the task.

Therefore, I'm looking for an external tool to manage Claude Code. I haven't found one yet. I've seen some articles suggesting the use of a subagents approach, where tools like Gemini CLI or Codex could launch Claude Code. I haven't thoroughly explored this method yet.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Codex CLI had some huge upgrades in the past few months. Before the GPT-5 release it was a poor imitation IMO - in the macOS terminal it somehow even disabled copy and paste! Codex today is almost unrecognizable in comparison to that version. It's really good. I use both it and Claude Code almost interchangeably at the moment and I'm not really feeling that one is notably better than the other.

Between codex and Claude code, I am using both on two entirely different projects, so it's not a fair comparison, but the two things Claude has in my unscientific testing is a better plan mode (though having to use the magic password ultrathink belies needing to learn how to prompt it properly) resulting in a better and longer Todo.md (but again, the two projects between the two are very different, so don't consider…

Codex CLI doesn't have a plan mode right? So how are you planning?

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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post #222

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Between codex and Claude code, I am using both on two entirely different projects, so it's not a fair comparison, but the two things Claude has in my unscientific testing is a better plan mode (though having to use the magic password ultrathink belies needing to learn how to prompt it properly) resulting in a better and longer Todo.md (but again, the two projects between the two are very different, so don't consider…

Codex CLI doesn't have a plan mode right? So how are you planning?

I tell it explicitly in the prompt. "Make a plan to make thing, Ask me clarifying questions. Save the plan in todo.md"
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