Just wanted to share this over here to see if someone agrees. Because I’m really surprised. After all the garbage with the limits I started giving Codex a try. First time using it was shocked at how much more effective than claude it was. It finished tasks much quicker and in a better way, without errors. Regardless, I followed the common idea going around that “Claude is better for reasoning and planning, codex for execution”. So I mostly planned with claude and then executed with codex. Due to Claude running out of tokens so quickly I had to actually start using Codex for planning. And what a mistake was not doing this before! Yesterday I planned various tasks on a medium sized project (~10k lines of C++ code), opening in parallel Claude and Codex. Fed the exact same prompt, Codex gave always a better plan. Made them cross read their plans, and codex permanently found holes on Claude’s plan, while Claude always said “Great plan! catched all these things I didn’t see:…”. So at this point, in my experience, claude code today is much worse than codex on both planning, code analysis and execution. Not meaning to critique Claude here, just want to share this to see if anyone else experienced the same. To me at this point Claude is just a dumbed-down version of Codex. I’m not discarding doing something wrong, like missing some config or tuning something. I have both models “vanilla”, I’m not modifying anything in either. submitted by /u/fourier54
Originally posted by u/fourier54 on r/ClaudeCode
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