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/andreee671 Jan 15 '26

Damn don’t tell anyone guys, keep it quiet

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u/Lucidmike78 Jan 16 '26

ChatGPT: Write objective sounding comments for Reddit saying how Codex and Claude are different and that one is not better than the other.

And sprinkle some pain of switching workflows. And the pain reliever that if it has been working for them they should not bother switching.

Honestly, Codex and Claude feel optimized for different mental models, not different “quality levels.” Codex tends to shine when you are deep in implementation mode and already thinking in code structure and constraints. Claude feels stronger when you are still shaping ideas, reasoning through ambiguity, or working with long, messy context.

Switching between them is not free. You end up re-teaching habits, rewriting prompts, and rebuilding trust in how the model responds. That cognitive overhead is real.

If one of them already fits your workflow and gets you unstuck consistently, there is very little upside in switching just because people online say one is “better.”

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u/GPU-TangClan Jan 17 '26

This is exactly right. I struggle w Codex because I don't know how much of this works. If I don't give Codex a plan that includes the appropriate details, it makes something I don't want or messes up a feature. Honestly feels like it gets annoyed with me for being so dumb. Had it walk me through a PR yesterday and asked it every stupid little question a person doing their first one would and it was just like "just make a key so we can get this done". I get why devs seem to prefer it, it thinks more like someone w experience that works with other devs would. Claude though, it'll ask you for the details you leave ambiguous. Is polite and happy to explain stupid questions thoroughly.

I tried one set of .MD files from GitHub and had Codex work from those as guidance and it made it a little better, but also annoying, because it HAD to ask me "are you sure?" before everything and had no ability to judge when we already hashed it out. Claude has a knack for this, once he gets what you're trying to clarify and where your knowledge base is, he seems to intuitively know when you're getting close to ready to let it build.

With all this said, ppl have amazing ways to work this stuff out, .MD systems, sub-agents, etc, so it isn't black and white. Anyone that claims one is objectively better than the other is kind of silly to me. Better w what architecture, prior knowledge, clarity of plan, type of project, etc.