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!