Anecdata: I've been running a long-lived claude code session with Opus 4.6 for the last few days. Yesterday, almost right after the Sonnet 5.5 announcement, codex starting asking for permission to run things a lot more often

The quality of the output/work seems the same, but the speed at which it gets stuff done is a lot slower, because it's asking for permission so much more

I don't have any numbers/stats, just my impression. However, I imagine that if Anthropic could make the models ask for permission more often, it could be an interesting way to throttle access, without degrading quality of the output

I noticed this, too. I suspect their classifiers which prohibit certain tasks or require user permission for others is the reason for this.

ChatGPT tends to modulate the speed at which you can type. If it is a bug they probably should have fixed this months ago, so I'm guessing it is intentional.

I just use auto mode but there is also some config settings for more fine grain control. The model could even help you customize them.

I think most people are on 'auto' mode nowadays.