From my observation of the past 2 weeks is that Claude Code is getting dramatically worse and super low usage quota's while OpenAI Codex is getting great and has a very generous usage quota in comparison.

For people that have not tried it in say ~1 month, give Codex CLI a try.

All that matters to the end users is to never be trapped. Cross-shop these products around constantly and go for lowest price, highest performance ratios. We've seen over the last year all companies trade blows, but none are offering something novel within the current space. There is no reason to "stick to one service". But the services will try very hard to keep you stuck for that SaaS revenue.

Does it still go "your project is using git, let me just YOLO stuff" on first startup?

My essentials for any coding agent are proper whitelists for allowed commands (you can run uv run <anything>, but rm requires approval every time) and customisable slash commands.

I can live without hooks and subagents.