There basically the same. Codex is better at some things, Claude is better at other things. It’s honestly a wash, just pick the one that gives you a warmer fuzzy feeling in your tummy.
reply5.4 is great. I use it for python professionally and for typescript/front-end games and educational apps recreationally. In my experience it's roughly as good as opus, just a lot cheaper. It's amazing how much usage you get for $20/mo
replyCodex has better quality and way more usage, but Claude Code is more pleasant to interact with and use in a lot of tiny ways
replygpt-5.4 is unmatched. Claude is possibly better in web UI tasks, but not much else.
replyI'm really curious about how you use it, because for me it was braindead. I tried tasking it to update my personal workout app and it created so many bugs I had to clean up with Opus or be left with spaghetti. It also keeps asking for confirmation of doing basic things.
reply> I tried tasking it to update my personal workout app and it created so many bugs I had to clean up with Opus or be left with spaghetti.
replyI find it sad that some people are already at the point where "My only options are to leave it as spaghetti or pay for another LLM to fix it". Already their skills are atrophied.
Or I just don't wanna spend any decision capital on that? There's many apps I would never have been able to do time wise before.
replyI also don’t think vast majority of SWEs ever had the skill to read and truly comprehend other people’s code and then work dilligently to “fix” it. People will such skills, in my experience, are often highly compensated contractors. every codebase which has survived the test of time has numerous “absolutely do not touch this code, everything will break and no one knows why” part(s) of the codebase…
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