At work we have unlimited use of models from Anthropic and OpenAI (for now). My coworker, a Claude Code Opus 4.6 diehard, stopped by my desk today to say he finally installed Codex to try 5.5 and his feedback was basically “it just works and does what I ask and it doesn’t disconnect and it’s just so very matter of fact.” “Yeah I’ve been telling you this since like gpt-5 man!” “I know I know…” I have not spent much time with the recent Sonnet and Opus models, but from my experience using Sonnet 4 for 3 months all day everyday (no handwritten code) last summer to make a large Playwright suite was — using Claude Code and those models becomes more about using Claude Code than doing things with it. Codex CLI with the gpt-5 family is ambient and reliable. It’s not orange, there is no little sprite guy, emojis, whimsy, and humor. But I do things with it and they land working in first edits. I also can keep the same session for days and the context doesn’t ever seem to be an issue. Maybe Claude 6 will be earth shattering and I’ll use that. It’s not Coke or Pepsi loyalty I just want to get stuff done.

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stldev a day ago | parent | next [-]

Plus one. I held off for too long out of concern that it wouldn't stack up and I'd come right back to Anthropic.

I switched a few days ago and work has been much less frustrating. Feels like CC did back in February before they started playing games.

It also doesn't eat nearly as many tokens, so it's saving me $100/mo.

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make3 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm still not switching after Altman jumped on the cyberpunk totalitarian contract with the government

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applecrazy a day ago | parent [-]

well apparently Dario did the same thing with Mythos - ethics for the big AI labs is mainly posturing

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2ndorderthought a day ago | parent [-]

I wish palantir had their own model. Now that's a business I can get behind. Until then I have to use grok I guess.

	▲	SOLAR_FIELDS a day ago \| parent [-]
		At least palantir is open about their villainy I guess, they make no attempts to pull the wool over your eyes. So you at least know that you are for sure getting in bed with the bad guys if you go with them

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Salgat a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lately I've been using claude mainly to design plans and do code reviews while Codex does all the implementation. Having two very different models helps to work out any weird quirks one might have.

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seemaze a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I appreciate the objective anecdote, but obviously Coke™.

	▲	2ndorderthought a day ago \| parent [-]
		Whenever Claude goes down I relax with a nice jar of Newman's own pasta sauce. It's just zesty enough for me to dip bread in or make pasta. You name it

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winwang a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly, I gotta agree, I find that I get way more frustrated with Claude recently than Codex.

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Madmallard a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean we just need technological advancements so we can get this hosted locally for people