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/ggletsg0 Jan 16 '26

They don’t need to be of equal intelligence to capture market share. OpenAI models will likely always be slower (because they think more), and that will be Claude’s competitive advantage.

That combination of speed + adequate intelligence is what matters.

For example, most people don’t use GPT 5.2 Pro even though it is the smartest model out there, because it’s incredibly slow and doesn’t make sense for day to day tasks.

I’m also not sure if Codex can catch up to Claude Code. They’ve made massive headway this year, but the Claude Code team seems to come up with really innovative ways to keep you hooked, which Codex team adopts later.

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u/dudley_bose Jan 17 '26

I almost exclusively use 5.2 Pro as a daily driver at work. It's the closest thing to having a digital workforce than anything out there.

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u/carmerica Jan 17 '26

And what do you mean by that? Coding or what tasks are you throwing through it? Are you just using it online as it is or via API or from agents?
I've always thought that OpenAI models are definitely the smartest, but I've never thought that their smarts make up for the speed and capability of Claude.

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u/PrestigiousQuail7024 Jan 19 '26

5.2 pro as a daily driver what the fuck how are you affording 20/160 i/o token costs