I think those OpenAI announcements are mainly because this hasn’t been the case for them earlier, while it has been part of Claude Code since the beginning.

I don’t think there’s something deeply philosophical in here, especially as Claude Code is pushing stronger for asking more questions recently, introduced functionality to “chat about questions” while they’re asked, etc.

Frankly it seems to be that codex is playing catch-up with claude code and claude code is just continuing to move further ahead. The thing with claude code is it will work longer... if you want it to. It's always had good oversight and (at least for me) it builds trust slowly until you are wishing it would do more at once. When I've used codex (it has been getting better) but back in the day it would just do things and say it's done and you're just sitting there wondering "wtf are you doing?". Claude code is more the opposite where you can watch as closely as you want and often you get to a point where you have enough trust and experience with it that you know what it's going to do and don't want to bother.