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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 orwin »

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.

And the way they are written is rather unhelpful: '//this not cosmetic: this css helps the user understand where he should click'. The 'this is not' pattern is useless at best.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by transdev12 »

netniuq wrote: post #50
transdev12 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude comments look like this //add returns the sum of x and y //per section 2.1 of addition-implementation-plan.md sum is designed as the seam for user addition interfaces. //previously sum added numbers, now it adds numbers def add(x, y): return x + y

just reading this comments made me despise the fact that I have to read this shit again tomorrow It's really time to move to OpenAI...

I’m trying to pitch my boss on something like bedrock/foundry/vertex where we can just swap the model and still have it serverless over an api.

Digital ocean particularly looks promising as well.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by rc1 »

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…

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Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by AnodicElegy »

"How this article was written I wrote this article and used Grammarly to proofread and fix it."

What a brave new world we're in, where this is necessary. Regardless, it's appreciated. Although, I have the feeling that those using an LLM to do most of their writing will be less likely to include such a disclaimer.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by pixelmelt »

aleksiy123 wrote: post #11
aleksiy123 wrote: post #7

Agree with most of these. One thing I don’t love about codex/sol is I find it tends to overengineer and be overly cautious. I was using it to do create some scraping + data processing. It went kind of crazy on the provenance, need at least 3 sources of consensus before promoting facts type bullshit. defined a bunch of enums and gates. I just wanted scrape some site data and put it into a SQLite dB. Like chill codex.…

As a follow up. I feel like codex/sol is better at well scoped hard technical problem. Where it can sort of run this brute force analytical loop. Like doing performance optimization or other search type problems. I think the math proofs are good examples of this.

Agreed, only LLM I can give a folder of packet traces from a multiplayer game and wake up the next day with a server that feels identical.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by kromokromo »

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.

Model performance is very much subjective to what you’re using it for. I’m a PM and doing mostly knowledge work, and I’ve been really happy with Opus 5 as my daily driver with very good results, perhaps my favorite anthropic model so far. I do a lot of front-end coding with it too. I prefer it over the openAI models, been switching frequently. Kimi K3 is great too.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by nateb2022 »

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…

> ds pro and flash are fast but not something id actually use for important things, unlike sol, fable and maybe 3.7 here and there

As someone who's used Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google sub mostly for the storage) and DS4 Flash a lot (~6B tokens), I'd actually place DS4 Flash (even pre-0713) above Gemini 3.7 Flash. Gemini has a tendency to leave some things unimplemented; perhaps it's agy which frankly leaves a bit to be desired as a harness.

Although I will praise DS4 Flash any day, it no longer makes sense for me after the price increase (GPT 5.6 Luna is a much better price point) and I have completely migrated my high volume workflows to Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor (which I find to perform better than DS4 Flash 0713, happily).

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by tecoholic »

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…

> gemini 3.7 is great for speed. everyone is sleeping on it

Is this Gemini 3.7 Flash by any chance? Then - No. Not sleeping on it. It’s just not good.

I had a Python package build fail this week due to an unpinned dependency. Gave it to Gemini spent 5-7mins before I noticed it going off in some tangent. Reran with Claude Opus 4.8 - fixed in under a minute.

I know anecdata of one. But something like this has happened every time I test a new model from Google.

Re: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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Post by agentdev001 »

Im trying to do my part in the world here.

This post needs an edit. Author is not comparing "Codex" and "Claude". They are comparing Codex TUI/CLI with (presumably) gpt-5.6-sol, against Claude Code TUI/CLI with (presumably) Claude-Opus-5.

Ctrl + f > [5.6, sol, sonnet, opus or fable] yields no results.

"Claude" is a product family, which includes Models, and Harnesses (and probably more). "Claude code" covers both the Claude Code TUI, and CC in the Claude desktop app.

"Codex" is the same, and could refer to the Codex TUI, or Codex in the ChatGPT (formerly codex) desktop app. (And well, historically, gpt-5.*-codex.)

Hearing "Yea Claude is great for coding" takes an hour off my life.

Something something "Honey why don't you finish up with your Nintendo and come to dinner?"

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