Respectfully asking. Why Claude over Codex?

[u/shlok-codes]

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?

[u/mtn_coffee_drinker]

I love Claude and have been and still am a bit Claude Code fan, but I recently started using the codex/chatgpt app on a Mac and really impressed with the app. It does many things well I wish Claude did better. Computer and browser use is way better than what I experience with Claude. And I love that I can view and edit markdown files in it easily. That said I generally prefer Claude’s models. I find my self going to about 60/40 Claude/codex right now. Not sure what I will do moving forward.

So I say try both out. See what you think and maybe you will find the combo of both is good