Codex
18 recommend 4 criticize 12 moved to it 1 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“I've mostly switched from Claude to Codex because I find the harness so buggy and annoying that I avoid it when I can.”overgard, 2026-10-14original comment ↗
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I moved from Claude Code to Codex for ROI and code quality reasons”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“I'll take Codex every day of the week.”coderenegade, 2026-09-12original comment ↗
“Codex is also a lot faster than Claude.”jeffreyrogers, 2026-08-23original comment ↗
“Current experience of just leaving a Codex Agent chug until a stable solution is completed is still mind blowing to me.”5555watch, 2026-08-19original comment ↗
“I still haven't moved from Codex GPT5.5.”ilitirit, 2026-08-14original comment ↗
“I just switched from Llama.cpp to Llama swap with the help of codex. It was great.”monksy, 2026-06-12original comment ↗
“My productivity has substantially improved since I switched from open models to a Codex subscription, because it doesn't need hand holding”Alex-Programs, 2026-05-28original comment ↗
“I just had codex set up everything, ephemeral vm runners and all”ElFitz, 2026-05-26original comment ↗
“Earlier this month I switched from Claude Code to Codex”almog, 2026-05-20original comment ↗
“I switched from CC to Codex a few days ago. I get limited much less and the code quality is similar, so not looking back”mpaepper, 2026-04-23original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“Codex does phrase things weirdly sometimes, but Claude appears to barely speak English.”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I could not figure out how to require Codex to ask me before editing files.”ferris-booler, 2026-08-10original comment ↗
“Lots of customers fled to Codex and they got crunched as well.”jeremyjh, 2026-04-23original comment ↗
“Codex (GPT 5.4 / High) where it was unflinchingly gaslighting me about undesired behavior still occurring after a change it made”toraway, 2026-03-14original comment ↗
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Hackers moved from Codex to
- Codex → Claude (1 hacker)
- Codex → Claude Opus 5.5 (1 hacker)
Hackers moved to Codex from
- Claude Code → Codex (7 hackers)
- Claude → Codex (4 hackers)
- Codex CLI → Codex (1 hacker)
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