Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?

I use my brain, pen and paper, because I work on serious projects that are of high risk and are mission critical. Not toy projects on GitHub.

Secondly, there will be a time where companies like Anthropic will disallow you from using AI in their interviews.

So you are cooked if you are over-reliant on coding agents.

I use OMP. Was on Pi but switched over because I like OMP's subagents implementation. Use 5.5/4.8 for coming up with a very detailed plan, ds4pro/mimo for implementation of easy features, 5.5/4.6 for larger/harder features, and 5.5/4.6 for a review. I use them in onorca.dev and sometimes use Zed as well.

I use Kilocode Vscode extension, still can't give up the IDE

Work I have access to both Claude Code and Codex. Use them both, typically on the same work. I like to do brainstorming and solution design with Codex GPT 5.5 High, and then have Claude Opus 4.7/4.8 high/medium do the implementation.

So far been quite productive for some greenfield rewrites and refactors of existing code. Though bug fixing our main project it's more hit and miss, though Codex GPT 5.5 High can be very good at spotting subtle issues.

At work we only have access to claude / kiro. I only use it via cli since I find this to be the most flexible setup as claude can find stuff anywhere, read, write and run programs etc.

Mostly just Codex

claude - org pays for it. org used to pay for both, and i preferred codex back then (~3mo ago).

i find claude to be significantly lazier or require significantly more guidance. it does, however, have better design and ui/ux intuition.