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Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by malshe »

100721 wrote: post #26
nickstinemates wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meanwhile I am talking about unique shit with Claude Code trying to draft on that sentiment for little to no traction with them. We've built the best way to automate and manage production infrastructure using these models and no one gives a shit. It's so weird.

> Meanwhile I am talking about unique shit with Claude Code trying to draft on that sentiment for little to no traction with them. What does this mean? What do you mean unique shit? What do you mean when you say you’re trying to draft on the sentiment? What is “them” referring to? Genuinely. I’m not being (deliberately) obtuse, just trying to follow. Thanks

Thanks for asking this because for a moment I thought I was too dense to read this correctly

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by nl »

mikeocool wrote: post #11

Reading the comments and posts about both Claude Code and Codex on Reddit (and often hacker news), it’s hard to imagine they’re not extremely astroturfed. There seems to be constant stream of not terribly interesting or unique “my Claude code/codex success story” blog posts that mange to solicit so many upvotes.

I dunno.

I've been coding for 30 years.

Using Codex I'm finally enjoying it again for the first time in maybe 15 years. Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on.

And I tell everyone I can how transformational it has been for me.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by spott »

I really like codex… but without the ability to launch sub-agents, it kinda struggles with context.

The biggest thing I use agents for is getting good search with less context.

Codex just struggles when the model needs to search too much because of this. Codex also struggles with too much context: there have been a number of times when it has just ran up on the context limit and couldn’t compact, so you just loose everything since your last message, which has been a lot of lost context/work for me.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by psandor »

gorjusborg wrote: post #19
_heimdall wrote: post #12

Its interesting to me that Codex has such high sentiment. I'm definitely an outlier on the more principled end of the spectrum, but I refuse to use OpenAI products. I take issue with the AI industry in general and the hand-wavy approach to risk, but OpenAI really is on another level in my book. While I don't trust the industry's approach to AI development, with OpenAI I don't trust the leaderships' intentions.

> Its interesting to me that Codex has such high sentiment. Me too, so much so that I doubt this is legitimate. This blog post is the only place I've seen people 'raving' about codex. Claude Code is the current standard all others are measured against.

It was true until GPT-5. That model hugely improved Codex, so it being comparable with CC is a recent thing.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by jxf »

nl wrote: post #32
mikeocool wrote: post #11

Reading the comments and posts about both Claude Code and Codex on Reddit (and often hacker news), it’s hard to imagine they’re not extremely astroturfed. There seems to be constant stream of not terribly interesting or unique “my Claude code/codex success story” blog posts that mange to solicit so many upvotes.

I dunno. I've been coding for 30 years. Using Codex I'm finally enjoying it again for the first time in maybe 15 years. Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on. And I tell everyone I can how transformational it has been for me.

Did you also use Claude, and you like Codex better, or are you making a more general observation about the leapfrog in creative power agents are bringing to engineering?

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by Aeolun »

jxf wrote: post #38
nl wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno. I've been coding for 30 years. Using Codex I'm finally enjoying it again for the first time in maybe 15 years. Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on. And I tell everyone I can how transformational it has been for me.

Did you also use Claude, and you like Codex better, or are you making a more general observation about the leapfrog in creative power agents are bringing to engineering?

I’ll tell you something. I love working with Claude. It’s enthusiastic, it’s nice, it’ll give you suggestions. It’s an all around pleasant experience.

I hate working with codex. It feels like a machine. You tell it to do something, and it just does it. No pretension at being human, or enthusiastic, or anything really.

But codex almost always does it right. And the comments are right, I never run into random usage limits. Codex doesn’t arbitrarily decide to shrink the context window, or start compacting again after 3 messages.

The codex client sucks, claude code is much better. But the codex client is consistent, which is much more important. Claude was amazing 3 months ago. The model is still fine, but the quality of the experience has degraded so far it’s hard to consider using it.

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