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It's interesting how different the subjective experiences of similarly-capable coding models is. My experience with Codex is that it tends to run off and do thi
by causal 1y ago
It's interesting how different the subjective experiences of similarly-capable coding models is. My experience with Codex is that it tends to run off and do things without asking enough questions or keeping me in sync, whereas Claude seems to be more careful to clarify and keep me apprised of what it's doing.
I wonder how much of it comes down to how models "train us" to work in ways they are most effective.
- Aeolun 1y agoI thought I liked Codex better, because the quality of the output is just higher, but after a week of trying I found I couldn't deal with talking to a robot. I'd rather have fun with junior Claude than with the stoic, socially-inept senior Codex.
- catigula 1y agoI think codex is probably most impressive if you literally have no idea - and don't want to know - what you're doing at all.
- stavros 1y agoI think a lot of it, Claude is definitely careful and Codex runs off too eagerly before discussing much (and the lack of a plan mode doesn't help), but I think we just learn how to use them. These days, anything I don't like goes into the AGENTS.md, where I tweak the instructions until the model understands well.
- nl 1y agoCodex has a plan mode. In the web interface press the "+" button next to the repo it is working on. Not obvious at all though!
- stavros 1y agoSorry, I meant Codex CLI. It doesn't help that OpenAI has at least three things called Codex...
- jimmydoe 1y agoI too feel the eagerness, sometimes I only ask questions, it starts to code right away, and I have to add do not write any code very explicitly.