Whats crazier is that Codex is free. I thought I had to pay to even try it out but nope, you can use the desktop app or cli for free, its apparently included in the free plan. You just have to sign in to your ChatGPT account.

Of course I am aware that the caveat here is that all my interaction is part of training, but I’m fine with that. Even Qwen Cli discontinued the free plan.

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firesteelrain 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

How much better is it than Claude? I have both but Claude sucks up so many tokens.

	▲	bobbylarrybobby 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		5.5 is absolutely comparable to opus 4.7 (both on highest effort), maybe even better. It generally seems less lazy, faster, and writes code closer to what I'd write. The only downside is that for very very long tasks, it can kind of lose track of the goal. For tasks under ten minutes I'll go with codex every time.
	▲	yieldcrv 14 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Less gibliterrating and more doing Very fast

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orionsbelt 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First hit is free… got to get you hooked.

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thorum 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was really unimpressed by the free Codex (for nodejs/react dev). I think it must be using a less powerful model or they’re limiting it in some other way.

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jwilliams 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are you specifically pointing at a different experience between free + paid? Or just that the free version is unimpressive?

I'm using paid on TypeScript and it's genuinely terrific. Subjectively I think it has the edge over Opus.

I'd be surprised if OpenAI is hamstringing the free version. That would seem crazy from a GTM PoV. If anything the labs seem to throttle the heavy paid users.

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fragmede 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, the free version doesn't have access to the same models that the paid does.

	▲	debian3 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You have access to 5.5 xhigh on free. Which model is missing except the 5.3 that run on cerebras?
	▲	wahnfrieden an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's only missing the trash models. Likely a user skill issue.

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throw03172019 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The free version of ChatGPT is definitely worse as well. My SO uses the free version and I can tell a significant downgrade.

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wahnfrieden 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Post your chat session

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ssl-3 an hour ago | parent [-]

Can Codex chats be shared? (This is a genuine question; so far, I've only used Codex in CLI on Linux.)

	▲	wahnfrieden 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Via jsonl file

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dakolli 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm unimpressed by all LLMs, and especially unimpressed by the people claiming to be impressed by them.

	▲	cindyllm 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
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Rover222 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it's free for about 2 useful requests and then you have to upgrade or wait?

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melagonster an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Switching to GPT 5.4-mini can increase the number of requests we can use freely.

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osiris970 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So basically a 20$ Claude plan lmao

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replwoacause 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I stopped using my Claude subscription because it became so prohibitive. Back to ChatGPT and Codex full time and been pretty happy. I miss the tone/writing style of Claude, but don't miss the frustration of being told I've reached my plan limits in a comically short amount of time.

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dmd an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Using these prompts/steering[0], setting Base style to Friendly, Warm to More, Enthusiastic to Default, Headers, Lists, and Emoji to Less, I have found I can get gpt-5.5 about ... 80% of the way there to writing as non-annoyingly as Claude. And it's so much faster and has such higher limits that that's worth it for me.

I also put together this ridiculous thing[1] because I missed the font and color scheme of Claude.

[0] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dmd/91e9ca98b2c252a185e8e...

[1] https://github.com/dmd/aimpostor

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firesteelrain 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

How do you fit that entire prompt in the customized instructions ?

	▲	dmd 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Some of it is in my customized instructions, some of it I fed pieces in at a time saying "remember this please:" so it goes into Memories. I'm not entirely clear on the mechanism by which memories make it into context, so it's possible some of it isn't all the time, but it does seem to be working reasonably. Again, it's not as good as Claude when it comes to writing "not like an AI". But it's significantly better than it was.

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replwoacause an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Thanks, I’ll give those a try!

	▲	dmd an hour ago \| parent [-]
		FYI I'm actively working on aimpostor, so check back in a couple days for some quality improvements. (I'm definitely not going to bother with a Sparkle updater or anything like that.)

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Razengan 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

on Codex I ran into limits maybe like 2 times in 3 months, after doing several "upgrade this experimental game to my latest shared framework" passes on 5.5 Extra High

	▲	ssl-3 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		On which plan? I can go through a 5-hour limit with a $20/mo Plus subscription in a few minutes with 5.5 Extra High. This causes me to reserve the latest/best rev for the harder problems. 5.5 really does seem to be very superior to 5.4, but it's also very expensive to run: The gas gauge moves fast. It's not very clearly defined whether 5.5 will cost less to get a problem solved quickly, or if a bunch of automatic iterations of 5.4 will solve it less-expensively. Both are often frustrating to me on the $20 plan. (Also: Are you sure you're seeing it right? 5.5 has been in the wild for less than a month, so far. https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ )

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throwaway613746 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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