I've been coding for 30 years.
Using Codex I'm finally enjoying it again for the first time in maybe 15 years. Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on.
And I tell everyone I can how transformational it has been for me.
I hate working with codex. It feels like a machine. You tell it to do something, and it just does it. No pretension at being human, or enthusiastic, or anything really.
But codex almost always does it right. And the comments are right, I never run into random usage limits. Codex doesn’t arbitrarily decide to shrink the context window, or start compacting again after 3 messages.
The codex client sucks, claude code is much better. But the codex client is consistent, which is much more important. Claude was amazing 3 months ago. The model is still fine, but the quality of the experience has degraded so far it’s hard to consider using it.
Are you using in in VSCode?
I use the web based Codex (which I love) and the VSCode clients of both. I don't think there is a huge difference in the VSCode plugins.
I've tried the cli versions but don't have enough experience to have a strong opinion.
I've had a few small bug that Codex has fixed where Claude hasn't.
> Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on.
This sentence really and some of your other cadence somehow triggers my sense a lot. Or the comment somehow feels sloganish, formulaic. Not trying to criticise or offend, just thought it's interesting how it triggers this in my brain. And I do agree with you.
If you haven’t been vocal about your support of products in general, you wouldn’t show up on the radar for these “opportunities.”
I haven't been angling for an opportunity, but the world of marketing to developers isn't the same as for, say, a new face cream.
Paying for a good review on a site that features reviews, eg Amazon or Yelp is one thing. Paying people to troll the Internet at large and make random comments on random sites or discord/etc just seems a bit much.
Then again, the appearance of money make people doubt people are sincere about other things. Specifically, my employer is an AI tech company means that anything pro-AI, even for a different company that's competing with mine, or in a totally different area than my employer's, is suspect.
Human psychology is weird
I only use [coding assistants] for problems I DO understand.
this is obviously pure conjecture, but perhaps the OE folks had automated their multiple roles and now they need to be more involved.
As I got better round June/July I finally found the energy to try it out. It was working incredibly well at the time. It was so fun (for me), that I basically kept playing with it every day after finishing work. So for roughly 1.5 months basically every free minute each day, along with side explorations during work hours when I could get away with it.
Then I had to take another business trip mid August, when I finally came back in September it was unrecognizable - and from my perspective, it definitely hasn't recovered to how ultrathink+opus performed back then.
You can definitely still use it, but you need to take a massively more hands-on approach.
At least my opinion is not swayed by their reduced quota ... But to stay in line with the sentiment analysis this article is about - neither have I tried Codex to this point. Which I will, eventually.
What does this mean? What do you mean unique shit? What do you mean when you say you’re trying to draft on the sentiment? What is “them” referring to?
Genuinely. I’m not being (deliberately) obtuse, just trying to follow. Thanks
There seems to be constant stream of not terribly interesting or unique “my Claude code/codex success story” blog posts that mange to solicit so many upvotes.