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dyauspitryesterday at 4:02 PM1 replyview on HN

As a person that hasn’t used Claude code before, I’ve been using OpenAI’s Codex and it is pretty amazing. I wonder how much more amazing Claude is.


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Someone1234yesterday at 4:12 PM

Both are great, where they differ is: Claude Code has a better instinct than Codex. Meaning it will naturally produce things like you, the developer, would have.

Codex shines really well at what I call "hard problems." You set thinking high, and you just let it throw raw power at the problem. Whereas, Claude Code is better at your average day-to-day "write me code" tasks.

So the difference is kind of nuanced. You kind of need to use both a while to get a real sense of it.

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