[mosselman]

I asked Codex 5.3 and Opus 4.6 to write me a macos application with a certain set of requirements.

Opus 4.6 wrote me a working macos application.

Codex wrote me a html + css mockup of a macos application that didn't even look like a macos application at all.

Opus 4.5 was fine, but I feel that 4.6 is more often on the money on its implementations than 4.5 was. It is just slower.

[prodigycorp]

Codex has written me 3 very nice mac os applications in the past week lol

[stavros]

I asked both to help me with a hardware bug. Codex kept trying things, being sure of what the problem is every time, and every time making it worse.

Opus went off and browsed my dependencies for ten minutes, and came back and solved the problem firs try.

[saberience]

Heh, I find Codex to be a far, far smarter model than Claude Code.

And there's a good reason the most "famous" vibe coders, including the OpenClaw creator all moved to Codex, it's just better.

Claude writes a lot more code to do anything, tons of redundent code, repeated code etc. Codex is only model I've seen which occasionally removes more code than it writes.

[Huppie]

Funnily enough I've been using Codex 5.3 on maximum thinking for bug hunting and code reviews and it's been really good at it (it's just seem to have a completely different focus than Opus.)

I generally don't like the way codex approaches coding itself so I just feed its review comments back in to Claude Code and off we go.

[stavros]

I just created an OpenCode skill where both these models will talk to each other and discuss bug-finding approaches.

In my experience, two different models together works much better than one, that's why this subscription banning is distressing. I won't be able to use a tool that can use both models.

[baq]

Literally a skill issue.