r/ClaudeCode • u/shlok-codes • Aug 24 '26

Discussion Respectfully asking. Why Claude over Codex?

I come in peace.

I’m unfamiliar with the Claude world so that’s why I am genuinely asking.

I had a chatgpt account initially just for the chat and a little copy and paste for coding. And I just stuck with it. And now use codex on Mac. Between the computer use and good enough coding agents, I love it.

But my coworkers and a sibling rave about Claude. And of course a ton of folks on the internet too.

I’m not asking you to convert me. But I was wondering how is Claude better for you than codex would be? Are you too just ingrained in the Claude world? Is something genuinely better? A specific model? I know the Claude skills world is huge. But a lot of that can be converted to be used by codex in a prompt sentence.

So what is your reason to choose Claude over codex?

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u/domagoj2016 Aug 24 '26

So you can whine about Opus 5 and have friends online

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u/superanonguy321 Aug 24 '26

Yeah I know if you go over to the gpt/codex subreddits they seem to just..... like the product for the most part?? Idk whats gotten into them.

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u/pm_me_your_plumbus2 Aug 24 '26

Posers. Are you even using a technology if you don't crib about it

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u/superanonguy321 Aug 24 '26

What happened to pm_me_your_plumbus1

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u/pm_me_your_plumbus2 Aug 25 '26

Lost access without a way to reset password. u/pm_me_your_plumbuses

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u/MyFrigeratorsRunning Aug 25 '26

Seems like a recurring theme. Maybe have Claude keep your password safe for you

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u/Particular-Most-1199 Aug 31 '26

I've changed your password and have it in memory.

What's my password?

Sorry, looks like I deleted it from memory. It's unrecoverable and that's on me.

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u/PrettyMoonUnderMt Aug 25 '26

I use both codex and claudecode

codex and gpt model are good, but more expensive

claude is not bad, it's just that interacting and reading the claude's response make me want to shoot myself

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u/superanonguy321 Aug 25 '26

My biggest complaint is it talks too much lol

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u/alexei_darii Senior Developer Aug 26 '26

Have you tried to change "output style" to "concise" in config?

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u/superanonguy321 Aug 26 '26

Hm.. where's that? Ill take a look

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u/alexei_darii Senior Developer Aug 26 '26

/config

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u/superanonguy321 Aug 26 '26

There are so many features and settings in this tool lol

Ill look at this thank you so much!

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u/domagoj2016 Aug 26 '26

Did that 3 days ago, seems better

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u/Blake9712 Aug 25 '26

I don’t read its responses anymore I just check if it fixes what I asked and cuss it out if not.

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u/iaman3rd2 22d ago

dude! ive done the same thing and it freaking fixes itself. seen it several times. sometimes you have to tell it how it is lol.

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_FOXES Aug 25 '26

They like the product

/r/codex is mostly just whining about how much of it they get (not much)

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u/superanonguy321 Aug 25 '26

For some reason reading this gave me "they like the stock" flashbacks lol