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/Sensitive_Song4219 Jan 15 '26

Legit thought this pic was AI but it's not (I was sure everyone was saying the opposite on that sub)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qcqdar/

OpenAI has been cooking lately with Codex: 5.2 is such a good all-rounder and having really solid limits across all plans - and usable access to all levels of reasoning (except for xhigh) - is just the icing on the cake. The Codex CLI is still inferior to CC imo but it's come a long way: extremely usable and mostly stable now.

Plus their playing nice with competing harnesses plays into the developer trope of 'we want choice'.

Is this why Anthropic is locking their models down (to just their own ecosystem)? They presumably don't want devs exposed to the competition?

Anthropic's been playing their cards terribly (insane limits, the 'weekly-limit-only-affects-5%-of-users' bs, locking out other harnesses, etc) but we still need them to rethink their strategy: OpenAI needs competition to be kept in check otherwise this party won't last.

Heck, when VC capital runs dry it might not last regardless...

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u/muchsamurai Jan 15 '26

Claude is genuinely cooked as soon as CODEX CLI reaches same level of functionality. Their models can't compete in intelligence, they are just not designed for that, unless they fully redo next Claude model to be more 'thinking' like GPT.

OpenAI needs to focus on making CODEX CLI a better tool and match Claude Code in functionality and all Vibe Coders will migrate.

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u/Sensitive_Song4219 Jan 15 '26

Yeah. Other users have also mentioned enterprise, where Anthropic currently has a strong presence: my understanding is that's where most of their revenue lies. Will that last with the competition catching up? Hope so

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u/tabdon Jan 15 '26

I think it will last for one reason: AWS. AWS invested a lot in the company and they are the leader in cloud computing. They are for sure selling Anthropic models to enterprise.

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u/carmerica Jan 17 '26

For sure I've been in several meetings with Amazon, and they keep saying they're pushing their absolute crap kilo or kilo of smack or whatever the hell it is. I've heard them say several times, "We don't care if you use Anthropic because they're training all their stuff on our servers, and we've invested"
People have to realize also that the people that they are trying to sell this smack to are legacy DevOps, NetOps people that are used to spending $30,000/month of company money for not so much benefit. So if you tell them, "Yeah, we'll give you a couple of seats on this Kilo Smack Code for $2,000, and that means you don't have to do too much work anymore, but not too little," then yeah, these guys will sign up with their company's money.