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- Meanwhile, claude CLI has so many huge bugs that break the experience. Memory leaks, major cpu usage, tool call errors that require you to abandon a conversation, infinite loops, context leaks, flashing screens.. so many to list.
I love the feature set of Claude Code and my entire workflow has been fine tuned around it, but i had to to codex this month. Hopefully the Claude Code team spends some time to slow down and focus on bugs.
- I doubt it. A large part of the performance problem with CC is constantly writing to a single shared JSON file across all instances, with no sharding or other mechanisms to keep it performant. It's spinning a shitload of CPU and blocking due to constant serialization/deserialization cycles and IO. When I was using CC a lot, my JSON file would hit >20mb quite quickly, and every instance would grind to a halt, sometimes taking >15s to respond to keyboard input. Seriously bullshit.
Everything Anthropic does from an engineering standpoint is bad, they're a decent research lab and that's it.
by CuriouslyC - I have a question prompted by seeing what everyone is doing with Codex and Claude Code. I'm currently in a Data Analytics, B.S. program. I've thought of dropping out and focusing on coding with these AI tools, but some programmers have told me that by knowing SQL, Python, JavaScript and how to code in general, that it'll give me an advantage.
Is the 1.5 years that I have left worth it? (I already have an Associate's Degree).
- I made an account just for you :) My opinion is: don't drop out.
1. The degree is useful. Having a Bachelor's opens up a lot of career paths because it shows that you committed to the Data Analytics program for four years. It also helps HR check off the "has a bachelor's" item on their list.
2. What you learn is useful. At the end of the day, you will be responsible for the code that the AI produces. How will you understand, explain, and justify your code to your colleagues and managers? "SQL, Python, JavaScript" and "theoretical Data Analytics knowledge" are both tools that will help you.
3. So far, senior engineers tend to have the most productivity boosts with AI. These engineers became "senior" before AI coding agents became mainstream, which means they know how to program. So based on this pattern, if you know how to program, then you will benefit more from AI.
Maybe you have other factors you are considering (e.g. money). My response is primarily based on the "existence of AI coding agents in the industry" factor.
by narilth - It really bothers me that it doesn't have support for devcontainers.
Only a closed set of languages are supported and the hook for startup installation of additional software seems to be not fully functioning at the moment.
- Yeah and my preferred tools (mise) are missing from the environment, and installing it requires arcane environment configuration and then the LLM spends 10 minutes just trying to get the environment set up... On every interactionby igor47
- Yeah that's why we basically built our own Claude Code Web but around Hetzner VPSs instead & terminal access. So you can use docker, open ports if you'd like. Some teams even needed us for a complicated R dev setup they wanted Claude to work with.by AnicetN
- Check out ona.com if you haven't already. We support very similiar use cases and we support devcontainer. No limitation on language support.by mattboyle
- You don't need claude code on the web for this, Cloudflare lets you spin up containers like crazy, you can boot an agent in a container, and as part of the boot process copy your claude auth token into the container. Then just ssh in, use tmux to make it persistent, and drive claude remotely.by CuriouslyC
- Claude Code is awesome, no doubt, but I’ve recently fallen in love with Codex. It takes longer to respond, sure, but the changes it makes are way more thorough — the attention to detail is just next level.by mrasong
- In my mind they're not competing, they complement each other.
Codex is when you want to one-shot something and have got the specs ready. It just keeps puttering away not giving much feedback (Especially the VS Code version is real quiet...)
Claude is more like a pair-programmer, you kinda need to watch what it does most of the time and it will tell you what it's doing (by default) and doesn't mind if you hit Esc and tell it to go another way.
Claude will Get Stuff Done.
Codex will find the subtle bugs and edge cases Claude left in its wake =)
by theshrike79 - huh, my current ranking is:
1. claude code CLI, generally works, great tool use
2. codex on the web, feels REALLY smart, but can’t use tools
3. codex CLI, still smarter than claude but less situational awareness
4. codex via iphone app, buggier than the web app
5. claude code on the web, worst of all worlds
by jes5199 - Wait until u try Gemini!
Gemini is really good at convincing they know what you're talking about. Sadly it hallucinates, and it does this confidently. You end up just thinking "well they confirmed x is greppable in y" but in reality they never used grep
by ramon156 - I built a version of this which wraps multiple CLI sessions locally. I do think the Web aspect and being able to access your CC session from anywhere is cool.by asdev
- We've got a product in beta right now that lets's you spin up a review app by just commenting "deploy" on a PR in GitHub. When you combine that with Claude Code on the web, it is pretty fun. You can be anywhere (on a boat, train, lying on the couch, in a stadium watching 18 innings of baseball) and using Claude Code on the web on any mobile phone (in a browser.) As it builds stuff, it's instantly deploying a review app for each update and so you can see the changes and then give it another request. Also makes it easy to just drop that review app into a groupchat to get feedback from other people who are also not at their computers. I don't have a link to a video yet but I posted a few screenshots here. If you want to try the review app functionality, just send me a message. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonessteven_anthropic-claude-...
- > You can be anywhere (on a boat, train, lying on the couch, in a stadium watching 18 innings of baseball) and using Claude Code on the web on any mobile phone (in a browser.) As it builds stuff, it's instantly deploying a review app for each update and so you can see the changes and then give it another request. Also makes it easy to just drop that review app into a groupchat to get feedback from other people who are also not at their computers.
Remote work has been a thing for more than a decade now. I always have the feeling that most of the people commenting on the web are new to the industry.
More than 10 years ago we had the same setup. We will say "deploy app_name" in the chat and it will just do that. With a VPN we worked like if we were in the office from anywhere in the world (but most people, to be realistic, just worked from home).
To need a web-based IDE seems a step backwards. You are already connected to the internet, any IDE will have access to all the needed services thru an internet connection.
Our world is becoming more and more fragile as corporations look to concentrate all services in just one place. I do not see a good ending to all this.
by Frieren - For those who are going to compare to Codex, make sure you understand what model you are working with:
https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt-5-codex_prompting_g...
The "Codex" model requires different promoting for the best results. You may also find, depending on your task, that the standard non-codex model works better.
by rsyring - The whole flow of:
creating container -> cloning repo -> making change -> test -> send PR
is too slow of a loop for me to do anything much useful. It's only good for trivial "one-shot" stuff.
by asadm - I use it (and Codex web) specifically when I'm not at my desk (or I am but in the middle of something else) and I want to do something fairly speculative. Kinda either exploratory or investigative. I may or may not use the results but it doesn't get in the way of anything I'm actually currently doing. I mostly use Codex for this as I want to save my Claude quota for the task at hand.by andybak
- I'd say this method of coding agent interaction is likely a strong contender for integrating coding agents into teams. You start with a really well defined ticket and a good source of relevant documentation for the project then set the agent loose by assigning it a ticket. It does it's thing, maybe asks questions on a group chat or in the ticket, and eventually produces a PR for the ticket. It's the 'interface' behind how a developer interacts with a project already. There's a lot of hand-waving in there and it's not a today or tomorrow thing, but it seems like it's coming fairly soon.by lsaferite
- I don't get this version of Claude Code. What changed my mind about AI coding was the fact that Claude Code was so good at using tools. If it changed some code, it ran tests, debug failures, etc. Having Claude Code on the web, without having access to a custom environment with the right tools available, just doesn't make sense to me. Claude Code on GitHub Actions is a much more usable variant for me. It allows for custom setup, but then it's not interactive like this one is. I really wish there was some middle ground.
- It's for MVP prototypes or quick tools you get the idea for on a walk or when you're away from your full setup.
Like this icon tool by @simonw: https://tools.simonwillison.net/icon-editor
Or I had an idea for a learning tool for my kids:
1) take a picture of the word list from the study book, give it with a prompt to an LLM, which produces a JSON Anki-style card set from the words
2) a simple web UI for a basic spaced repetition model that can ingest the JSON generated in step 1
All this went from idea to MVP while we were watching the first Downton Abbey movie.
After the movie was over, I could come to my desktop, open Claude Code with the previous chat and "teleport" it to my local machine to test it.
by theshrike79 - I like the workflow with Codex more. Though I like working with Claude more. So I wish Anthropic would copy the Codex workflow.
I like that Codex commits using your identity as if it was your changes. And I like that you can interact with it directly from the PR as if it was a team member.
by _ink_ - You can instruct Claude Code to commit in your name. Tell it in the CLAUDE.md file. Or add via `# Commit as xyz` and it will memorize.by submeta
- I used Claude Code a lot until this weekend, when I gave Codex CLI a try, and I have to say, wow. The gpt-5-codex model is amazing. Sonnet 4.5 routinely gets stuff wrong, even Opus 4.1 isn't too amazing, but GPT 5 Codex just one-shots everything.
I've been using Sonnet whenever I run into the Codex limit, and the difference is stark. Twice yesterday I had to get Codex to fix something Sonnet just got entirely wrong.
I registered a domain a year ago (pine.town) and it came up for renewal, so I figured that, instead of deleting it, I'd build something on it, and came up with the idea of an infinite collaborative pixel canvas with a "cozy town" vibe. I have ZERO experience with frontend, yet Codex just built me the entire damn thing over two days of coding:
It's the first model I can work with and be reasonably assured that the code won't go off the rails. I keep adding and adding code, and it hasn't become a mess of spaghetti yet. That having been said, I did catch Codex writing some backend code that could have been a few lines simpler, so I'm sure it's not as good as me at the stuff I know.
Then again, I wouldn't even have started this without Codex, so here we are.
by stavros - This matches my experience. Codex is just more capable. But Sonnet is also quite good and much faster.
So lately I'll start with Sonnet for everything but the most complex tasks and then switch to Codex when needed.
by cageface - Codex attempts to one shot for me but there’s many rounds of refinement. I haven’t used it in the last couple of weeks because it’s disappointing. Over hyped. Gone back to Amp and a little bit of Cursor with Sonnet 4.5by hnidiots3
- my issue with codex is it will decide to take forever and do to much for one line changes I should've done myself, and sometimes would make more changes than desired. Claude Code is much more expedient and keeps its scope narrow and rarely goes outside the bounds of my request.by Computer0
- Weird, I tried the CoPilot and Codex CLIs and my experience was not good. I set it up with the same MCP tools I use elsewhere and the results were subpar compared to using agents in IDEs. I don't think it's a context issue either.by heavyset_go
- Yeah I was using Claude pretty continuously for 3, 4 months and then decided to give Codex a whirl and it was impressive. I'd consider it to be a lot more cautious and careful and less lazy?
It is however slow, and more expensive. You can either pay the $20 and get maybe 2 days of work out of it, or $200 for "Pro." But there's nothing inbetween like the $100 USD Claude Code tier.