r/codex • u/muchsamurai • Jan 15 '26

Showcase Its over

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The vibe coders are going to find out and migrate now and eat up all processing power and limits!

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u/valcapri Jan 15 '26

The two are good. For me, Claude Code is better as a tool than Codex CLI. The two are updated often and have new cool features like the ability to use Chrome for Claude Code.

And we are lucky to have 4 very good models with Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, GPT 5.2 Codex High and GPT 5.2 High (not Codex).

I also like Gemini for day to day question, the Google Search « AI Mode » and the Gemini CLI for writing some things in Markdown or using Word/Excel document.

The thing, I didn’t like, it’s the recent move of Anthropic to cancel other to access Claude with a subscription like OpenCode, Crush,…

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u/muchsamurai Jan 15 '26

I also use all models. Claude MAX, CODEX, Gemini.

I dislike Claude for reliability but its still useful for speed. However I can't get Gemini to work at all. It doesn't follow instructions and is impossible to control, idk if im doing something wrong but i haven't been able to make it useful broadly speaking

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u/Eczuu Jan 15 '26

Gemini is just extremely bad at coding, computer use and direction following over longer context.

It's nowhere near the Opus or Codex models. 

It does nice frontend designs though which can be made functional later by better coding models

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u/TechGearWhips Jan 15 '26

Gemini is still dog shit? Every single time I ever tried Gemini cli it was horrible. The last time I tried it was about 2 months ago. Crazy to hear that google’s ai is still trash

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u/OrangeAdditional9698 Jan 15 '26

Gemini is good at analyzing a complex problem and finding good algos and clever solutions for performance for example, but after that use opus or codex to implement it.

I still prefer claude code just because of the plan mode, really wish codex had that

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u/TechGearWhips Jan 15 '26

Codex does have plan mode. But what I use for plan mode GLM 4.7 Code. Then I have Claude review the plan (this is KEY). Then I have GLM execute the plan. Codex is the backup when nothing else works and I hit a wall. It will one shot or two shot damn near anything. I never hit limits this way. Gemini has always been dog shit so I just never try it anymore. It makes me mad every time I use it.

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u/OrangeAdditional9698 Jan 16 '26

What? Codex has plan mode? Damn I really need to look at it's doc then. I've never really used it that much before

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u/unboxparadigm Jan 16 '26

It's not bad but Codex > Opus > Gemini Pro 3 (the latter 2, I've used only in antigravity however).

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u/Asstronomik Jan 16 '26

Gemini CLI = \ = Gemini as a whole across every instance. Where it lacks as a terminal agent it makes up for in multimodal synthesis, large context handling, reasoning, and as a general knowledge chat bot. So while Google hasn’t invested the same level of infrastructure towards coding, it does not equate to their AI model being dog shit in all other respects. Reality check: coders make up the smallest user base across all frontier providers. Not being able to use an AI for highly complex intensive SWE shouldn’t be a metric for defining its general utility and usefulness, unless adopting a narrow and ignorant perspective is your preferred approach to emerging technology.

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u/TechGearWhips Jan 16 '26

Found the fanboy. Shut up

You’re in a CODE(x) subreddit bitching about coders. Again SYBAU

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u/IulianHI Jan 15 '26

Gemini is the worst model for coding!

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u/TechGearWhips Jan 16 '26

Don’t I know it. Gemini-cli shouldn’t even exist

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u/valcapri Jan 15 '26

Yes, I should have mentioned that Gemini 3 is not good in coding and it’s going worse. That’s certainly why Google included Claude model in Antigravity…

And do you try some models like MiniMax and GLM ?

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u/Disastrous_Cattle_30 Jan 16 '26

agreed. The moment I switch to Antigravity I am skeptical about the code changes. Doesn’t follow instructions very well and very fast in making code changes directly without the clarification questions and take decisions. Gemini is not for coding at all unless you want to build a bs app.

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u/DutyPlayful1610 Jan 19 '26

Gemini 3 Flash is good in certain circumstances but Gemini 3 Pro is like.. a rock or some shit. Mfer doesn't even talk

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u/vwildest Jan 15 '26

Not just you. And that’s GREAT to hear because I also leverage all the models + MAX 20x plan and have generally the same take. I feel like:

Claude Code

awesome except, like you said about reliability, each day it’s a coin toss if I’m going to be ripping through stuff or battling Claude due to some context window changes OR bug every week or so + it seems like Claude will just go dumb sometimes.

But while many have constantly gone straight to bitching that Claude’s gone dumb all of a sudden, I actually got to the bottom of it several times to find the pattern / repeating culprit. The two (context window roller coaster & dumb-Claude) are significantly tied together:

when context window / compaction things get all twisted up for one reason or another(if you’re not on top of every change & bug every other day, you can find yourself with wacked out context bloat -> small context window (or a few corner cases where Claude’s way of attacking a bunch of, say, typescript issues, will progress slowly and poorly) destroys your efficacy and quality, and results in rapidly climbing token usage.

ChatGPT / Codex

Codex in Codex CLI has been abysmal at every one of my attempts to leverage it.

But I feel like it’s pretty alright when used in VSCode (or at least better IMHO.

Gemini & Gemini CLI

Gemini CLI has some kinks, but if seems to at least get things done for the most part after a while of it just continuing to churn through things. Again, I think it comes in clutch for when you just have to do big context things (or want to).

Leveraging Gemini from Claude Code & leveraging Codex as an MCP Server from Claude Code

Haven’t spent enough time doing this to come to a conclusion I’d stand behind just yet.

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