Yet all the people OpenAI bought out recently say Codex is “the future”

The bigger question is: does Anthropic have a big enough moat to matter?

I've used/use both, and find them pretty comparable, as far as the actual model backing the tool. That wasn't the case 9 months ago, but the world changes quickly.

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greggsy 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t believe there will ever be a real moat in terms of technology, at least not for the next year or so. The arms race between the major players still changing month to month, and they will all be able to do what their competitors were doing g three months ago.

None of them are particularly sticky - you can move between them with relative ease in vscode for instance.

I think the only moat is going to be based on capacity, but even that isnt going to last long as the products are moved away from the cloud and closer your end devices.

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sbinnee 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It matters to me. Claude code is more extensible. They put a lot of efforts to hooks and plugins. Codex may get the job done today. But Claude will evolve faster.

	▲	ywvcbk 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Codex is opensource though and there are quite a few forks already.
	▲	arrowsmith 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		None of that matters if the model is worse. I say this as someone who uses both Claude Code and Codex all day every day — I agree with others in this thread that CC has much better UX and evolves faster, but I still use Codex more often because it's simply the better coder. Everything else is a distant second to model quality.

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andyferris 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess it would be too obvious a lie to say Codex is "the present"?

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yberreby 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wouldn't be a very good look if they did anything else.