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

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Post by samhclark »

TheRoque wrote: post #54
candiddevmike wrote: post #15

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Need to go to conferences and actually talk to people to understand what Real People (TM) think of GenAI.

And what would that be ? Please make me save a plane ticket

I went to a b-sides yesterday (so: small, local, cybersecurity-focused) where someone described their feelings toward GenAI as "praying for Star Trek, but planning for Terminator." Someone else described AGI as a short term inevitability.

Not many others addressed it directly. The vibe I got from offhand remarks was that people felt it was a thing being forced upon them that they are resistant to use.

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

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Post by quintu5 »

DanielAtDev wrote: post #25
quintu5 wrote: post #6

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For larger tasks that I know are parallelizable, I just tell Claude to figure out which steps can be parallelized and then have it go nuts with sub-agents. I’ve had pretty good success with that.

I need to try this because I've never deliberately told it to, but I've had it do it on it's own before. Now I'm wondering if that project had instructions somewhere about that, which could it explain why it happened.

It sometimes does it on its own, but to get it to do so consistently, it needs to be told. Doubly so if you want it to split off more than one sub-agent.

This works great for refactors that touch a large number of files. You can knock out a refactor that might take 30 minutes, a persistent checklist, and possibly multiple conversations, and one-shot it in two minutes and a single prompt.

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

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Post by mpaepper »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #60

I like each at different times in different ways. Now I have both running in separate Tmux panes and have one talk to the other to ask/delegate/verify/validate, using my Tmux-cli tool (now a Claude skill of course): https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools Now my work on a project often spans multiple sessions of these agents. So I use a session-finder and resume/dump tool (also in that repo). I often ask Clau…

What about the security aspects, can it run anything?

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

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Post by fragmede »

100721 wrote: post #28
fragmede wrote: post #14

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In life, it helps to be skeptical, so the real question is where do I find real life humans to ask about their experiences? And even then, they could still be paid actors. Though, I've often wondered how would that work. Like, the marketing department staffed by hot people finds developers and then offers to Venmo them $500 to write something nice online about the product? It's a big Internet, and there's a lot of pe…

One thing worth taking into account is the practice of finding people who actually like the product, and then paying them to write an honest review. I find this to be much closer to ethical than paying exclusively for positive reviews to people who may not have ever used the product, but it has a similar net effect of distorting the sentiment by amplifying a subset of opinions, so still not ideal but at least it’s ro…

I recently got a comma.ai. I really like it. I tell everyone I know to get one. But I'm embarrassed to talk about it on the open Internet because I don't want to be accused of being paid to say good things about them.

I haven't been angling for an opportunity, but the world of marketing to developers isn't the same as for, say, a new face cream.

Paying for a good review on a site that features reviews, eg Amazon or Yelp is one thing. Paying people to troll the Internet at large and make random comments on random sites or discord/etc just seems a bit much.

Then again, the appearance of money make people doubt people are sincere about other things. Specifically, my employer is an AI tech company means that anything pro-AI, even for a different company that's competing with mine, or in a totally different area than my employer's, is suspect.

Human psychology is weird

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

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Post by nl »

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

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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've used Claude too and I prefer Codex. I generally have confidence in both to tackle large scale problems I won't tackle with Gemini 2.5

I've had a few small bug that Codex has fixed where Claude hasn't.

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

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Post by nl »

Aeolun wrote: post #39
jxf wrote: post #38

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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 lim…

> The codex client sucks, claude code is much better.

Are you using in in VSCode?

I use the web based Codex (which I love) and the VSCode clients of both. I don't think there is a huge difference in the VSCode plugins.

I've tried the cli versions but don't have enough experience to have a strong opinion.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

mpaepper wrote: post #63
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #60

I like each at different times in different ways. Now I have both running in separate Tmux panes and have one talk to the other to ask/delegate/verify/validate, using my Tmux-cli tool (now a Claude skill of course): https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools Now my work on a project often spans multiple sessions of these agents. So I use a session-finder and resume/dump tool (also in that repo). I often ask Clau…

What about the security aspects, can it run anything?

I assume by “it” you mean Claude code or codex-cli — that depends on how you launched them or how you modified the permissions within the CLI chat; that’s orthogonal to my CLI tools.
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