Claude Code is awesome, no doubt, but I’ve recently fallen in love with Codex. It takes longer to respond, sure, but the changes it makes are way more thorough — the attention to detail is just next level.
In my mind they're not competing, they complement each other.
Codex is when you want to one-shot something and have got the specs ready. It just keeps puttering away not giving much feedback (Especially the VS Code version is real quiet...)
Claude is more like a pair-programmer, you kinda need to watch what it does most of the time and it will tell you what it's doing (by default) and doesn't mind if you hit Esc and tell it to go another way.
Claude will Get Stuff Done.
Codex will find the subtle bugs and edge cases Claude left in its wake =)
Codex is when you want to one-shot something and have got the specs ready. It just keeps puttering away not giving much feedback (Especially the VS Code version is real quiet...)
Claude is more like a pair-programmer, you kinda need to watch what it does most of the time and it will tell you what it's doing (by default) and doesn't mind if you hit Esc and tell it to go another way.
Claude will Get Stuff Done.
Codex will find the subtle bugs and edge cases Claude left in its wake =)