So something that might help some people, or not. I just wanted to write about it since I m burnt out these past few days with all the resets and releases :D Backround & Flow: I m somewhat experienced with development and AI, using AI since gpt 2 open weight, played around with open models, and went through every GPT version till claude released sonnet 4 which I completely migrated over to anthropic. The past few weeks I also subscribed to codex pro x20, since I already had 2x max 20 claude code and wanted to try codex again after I heard some good things about the 5.6 sol. I only use Max thinking, whatever model I use, always max, don’t know if its the right thing to do but it works for me, my agents in CC are almost all opus 4.8 (opus 5.0 didn’t work for me), and each task starts with a fable orchestrator (5.1 now). As for codex, I only use sol max, since the limits are very generous, and between my 3 subs seems fine, since yesterday I try the similar system like claude, and have Astra as orchestrator with sol agents, again max everything. As for having both in my projects, I keep both Claude. md and Agents. md in sync (almost) with some prompting, as well the claude and codex agents, I have no issue with that flow and work fine in the same project. And I have created a simple session manager for both, so I manage each terminal easily. My projects right now are around trading, sports models, automation etc. and I have a project having 2k users right now so my workflows are very careful. Since I got codex, I started doing some tasks with sol, but after it made a plan for a specific task, I would navigate it through fable for reviewing that plan, and give their report, which I then give it to sol for implementation (or another back and forth, but usually fable doesnt need much back and forth), and sol starts the implementation of said task, and does fine, don’t remember having any reggresions after these past few weeks. After that also I automated some bug-reports with sol, which did a very good job having all the reviewed bugs in the morning for a claude code implementor to take over (opus 4.8 or fable for things that sol marked critical), this flow gave me beutiful results. Since yesterday, I changed to Astra and kept the flow to test the waters before start giving tasks e2e to Astra, but I noticed that Fable review almost always agreed, and rarely did any changes compared to what Astra proposed, so I ll be moving to a more e2e approach with codex starting today. Edit: Forgot to mention something important, Astra is very very fast compared to the any other flagship frontier models Usage: My 1x codex subscription feels probably more than my 2x CC, especially with sol max, since yesterday astra started depleting it more but still it feels like this 1 sub is like 2 CC subs, and since 15 of August that I got the codex sub, I have accumulated 3 bank resets, which feels very good now that Astra came out. That said, the Fable usage issue I see around a lot, I think is from people that let Fable spawn session agents (so fable agents) uncontrollably, which when I do for something I want 100% accuracy (and have some spare usage left), it just burns through the usage like nothing. Overall: I’m not going to replace my flow since my main project is very deep in production right now and don’t want to change much, but Codex seems to be close with Claude Code right now, with much much better limits, but still it needs to be seen through time. What I want to say is, that … what a time to be alive. These resets these past few days with the release of top tier models from both companies is a gift for builders and I m grateful. I’ll not pass this through an AI to make it better or fix mistakes, and I can answer any questions you might have submitted by /u/NaabSimRacer
Originally posted by u/NaabSimRacer on r/ClaudeCode
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