I say this as someone who has been obsessed with Claude for months building multiple large projects with it. It’s not even close. Claude basically uses the most minimalist “duct tape” style fixes, where as Codex 5.5 actually gets to the root of the problem. Almost any time i have Claude 4.7 do something and Codex reviews it, Codex finds problems. If I do the reverse, Claude finds tiny “nitpicks” and if i present them to Codex, most of the time Codex completely refutes them. If i go back to Claude with Codex’s response, Claude always says “yes I was wrong, I should have investigated that more closely, Codex was right to push back” etc. Try it. Tell them not to agree with each other unless they think what the other one said was actually correct. Anyway, i haven’t tried doing any UI work with Codex yet so I won’t say for sure Claude loses with that, but when it comes to backend work, the choice is clear with the current models. All that being said, wouldn’t be surprised if the next Claude model suddenly leapfrogs Codex 5.5, we shall see! I’m excited for the next round of releases. submitted by /u/FixClassic778
Originally posted by u/FixClassic778 on r/ClaudeCode
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