Started to use OpenAI Codex via Visual Studio Code this evening. Have been using Claude Code for 3 months, Opus 5 made me cancel earlier in the month. Got offered 1 month of free OpenAI. My experience in a python, react, FastAPI estate with multiple repos. Had a cross repo issue which Opus 5 got wrong 5 times, Astra Light fixed it very quickly. For general changes which cross repos react and python Sol Light is solving them first time with very little drama - Sol has moments where it doesn’t look it’s doing much but the work gets done, Opus used to to be writing to me alot about how hard the task is in it’s weird language. OpenAI is burning through tokens faster than Claude but it seems to be getting the job done faster. I’m finding that I am getting much much more done but I’m going to hit the token limit soon, have set privacy settings everywhere but terrified OpenAI are gunna take my shit. Claude Codes VS interface was much better than Codex, it’s unclear how the auto approve works, it seems to pause and ask me to approve but theres no where to approve. Perhaps a good analogy: Software Engineer 1 (Opus 5/ Fable 5.1) - Talks very technically about everything they do, they take a really long time and get stuff wrong and then I have to keep going around the loop with them arguing and getting them to explain things simply. Really frustrating but get there in the end and have blood pressure is at boiling point. Software Engineer 2 (Astra/Sol) - listers, doesn’t ask me much, goes very quiet, comes back to and tell me its done and charges me more. EDIT 1 : Possible show stopper, with Claude I was running lots of windows on one code base, in Codex you can only have 1 window per code base… its quite annoying. EDIT 2 : Context on Claude was 1m, Codex is only 258k, have hit the limit twice now… For now I’ll continue with OpenAI but i don’t feel totally convinced. submitted by /u/Babayaga1664
Originally posted by u/Babayaga1664 on r/ClaudeCode