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by aurareturn 137 days ago
5.2 Codex became my default coding model. It “feels” smarter than Opus 4.5.

I use 5.2 Codex for the entire task, then ask Opus 4.5 at the end to double check the work. It's nice to have another frontier model's opinion and ask it to spot any potential issues.

Looking forward to trying 5.3.

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Opus 4.5 is more creative and better at making UIs
Unless it's scroll bar theming then my God it's bad. it told me it gives up. Gemini 3 got stuck but the right prompt it did work.