Codex is fabulous at work, where token use is near limitless and ultra-thorough tool use is welcome. Go ahead and fire off searches for look-alike terms on my 96-core cloud instance.

By contrast, Claude Code's bias to make assumptions of reasonableness about underlying systems has proven to be immensely frustrating over the last month or two, both personally and at work. I've wasted days on "that was my mistake. I've been reporting numbers on the old architecture because I hadn't enabled the new one in the config" both at work and home. It's immensely frustrating.

But here we are. Wrestling with energetic idiots in model form, wrangled by over-specific harnesses that struggle to stay off of deranged side-quests.

What a time to be alive!

It might be your prompting.

My boss uses opus and gets good results when I use it always burns tokens. The other way is also true too I get great results with sol/terra but my boss does not.

At least with OpenAI you can use a third party harness like Pi.

I had the opposite experience. Claude models and its harness feel like they are set to eat tokens for everything, especially if it’s ultracode effort. I have seen it spawn 6 agents and eat my 4-hour quota right in front of me. Codex is on point and follows instructions well even with max effort. I like my analogy of Claude being garrulous and Codex being laconic. If I see more limit hits in same sitting session, I have to rearrange my workflows. my experiments with qwen and deepseek have been good, cant wait to try glm and other models.

same boat.

gpt 5.5/5.6 goes further on its own much more often than opus 4.8/5 does. codex capped ~300k context when claude does 1m.

I don't feel codex is saving tokens, and result is usually not as good imo.

Are you kidding me? OpenAI weekly limits feel _infinite_. I run out of Anthropic limits reliably halfway through the week