[loveparade]

Interesting, my experience has been the opposite. I've been running Codex and Sonnet 4.5 side by side the past few weeks, and Codex gives me better results 90% of the time, pretty much across all tasks. Where Claude really shines is that it's much faster than codex. So if I know exactly what I want or if it's a simpler task I feel comfortable giving it to Claude because I don't want to wait for Codex to work through it. Claude cli is also a much better user experience than codex cli. But Codex gets complex things right more consistently.

[distances]

My experience is similar. So most of the work I do with Claude as I like the small tasks / fast iteration pair coding experience. When I need to investigate some issues I let Codex handle it, and check back in 10 minutes when it's ready. But Codex is way too slow for the pair programming style of work.

Also, most of the time Codex opts to use Python to edit files. Those edits are unreviewable so it's even less interactive, you just have to let it finish and check the outcome.