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0 pointshakanderyal4mo ago0 comments

I think we are at the point where you can reliably ignore the hype and not get left behind. Until the next breakthrough at least.

I've been using Claude Code with Sonnet since August, and there haven't been any case where I thought about checking other models to see if they are any better. Things just worked. Yes, requires effort to steer correctly, but all of them do with their own quirks. Then 4.5 came, things got better automatically. Now with Opus, another step forward.

I've just ignored all the people pushing codex for the last weeks.

Don't fall into that trap and you'll be much more productive.

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macNchz4mo ago

The most effective AI coding assistant winds up being a complex interplay between the editor tooling, the language and frameworks being used, and the person driving. I think it’s worth experimenting. Just this afternoon Gemini 3 via the Gemini CLI fixed a whole slate of bugs that Claude Code simply could not, basically in one shot.

hakanderyalOP4mo ago

If you have the time & bandwidth for it, sure. But I do not, at I'm already at max budget with 200$ Anthrophic subscription.

My point is, the cases where Claude gets stuck and I had to step in and figure things out has been few and far between that I doesn't really matter. If the programmers workflow is working fine with Claude (or codex, gemini etc.), one shouldn't feel like they are missing out by not using the other ones.

nojs4mo ago

Using both extensively I feel codex is slightly “smarter” for debugging complex problems but on net I still find CC more productive. The difference is very marginal though.

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