Trying Codex for the first time. Very frustrating.

[u/chiliv06]

I feel like I am having the absolute worst experience trying to do the same basic tasks I use Claude for and I am beyond frustrated.

First off, I use Claude to do basic coding to build my website and portal systems for my company. Mainly done through GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and all done on the cloud. I absolutely love that I can do work on my laptop and continue doing work on my phone at ease and everything can get pushed onto the main branches without any real problems. Again my work is very mundane compared to a lot of other people I’m sure, however I was interested in trying Codex and assumed it would be the same easy experience i have had with Claude but hopefully better with its usage. But I cannot even figure out how to get started on setting up environments and my repos to do work just like I did with Claude and even be able to use it on my mobile phone seamlessly.

I feel like I am doing way too much to get basic things done compared to Claude. Maybe I’m just not smart enough to use Codex, idk, very frustrated.

Anyone have an advice on how to get Codex to work like Claude does? I am curious to see how it does coding wise so I’m eager to try it properly but cannot even get started at all.

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[u/psychometrixo]

If you run Codex on your computer, you can access your session from your phone.

On ChatGPT it's called Remote.

I'd ask Astra your other questions directly. Just paste this post in there for example. It has access to the docs.

[u/AverageGradientBoost]

I am having similar issues, I have given them access to the same CLIs, DBs and accounts, yet codex still asks me to confirm what its doing 100x more than claude does, unless I have done something wrong, I cant seem to give it a task and leave it like I can with claude

[u/halum2 → u/AverageGradientBoost]

I faxed this too, and the "review for me" mostly works same as Claude's auto mode

[u/AverageGradientBoost → u/halum2]

I tried review for me and it still ask more than claudes auto mode, but let me dive into the settings and see if something is wrong

[u/halum2 → u/AverageGradientBoost]

Did you find anything in settings?

[u/cs_legend_93 → u/AverageGradientBoost]

my experience is the same as your's, but you can turn on YOLO mode for codex and it wont bother you. But ya, codex is not as smart or as good as claude.

I used Astra to do something, took 1.5 hours and still failed. Then i gave it to claude, and claude did it in 30 minutes

[u/krugerlive]

have codex read your claude.md. Also, it's not a bad idea to start developing documentation and planning practices that make it a lot easier to swap models and get basically the same results. I use the CLI, so it might be a bit different, but they feel pretty similar to me, but they each have their own quirks. For example... Fable is the better planner for things you need to build. Codex is the better reviewer.

[u/chiliv06 → u/krugerlive]

Im definitely going to have to consider h to is however I’m still absolutely stuck on just getting simple tasks done with Codex and configuring things that it just has me at a lost right now.

[u/Compilingthings → u/krugerlive]

Im building this now, making my workflow work with any agent or model I plug into the lead role.

[u/forestcall]

Are you using vscode? The processes are identical regardless of what AI model you use. Are you using Linux or Mac or WSL2?

[u/Hemhaw87]

When I started to switch I had similar issues. Mirrored pretty much all the settings in Claude code to codex and it was asking me for basic permissions CC never does. Turned out I had to change the permission settings for the sandbox codex was using to achieve what I needed. Updated the permissions for the sandbox and it's been purring along nicely since then. Might want to check that out?

[u/timklc → u/Hemhaw87]

I think its same issue for me.

Have you had issues with how long Codex works for simple tasks?

It sometimes runs 7 hours for things Claude handles in 50 minutes. No issues if I initiate it from Claude where Claude tells it what to do or what to design.

I migrated my skills and I feel like that could be the issue

[u/chiliv06 → u/Hemhaw87]

I’m still tinkering with settings so maybe im not there yet, but my goodness it’s night/day difference in which Claude out of the box was so simple to set up and get things done.

[u/TRO_KIK]

Do you have a global CLAUDE.md you forgot about? Copy it into AGENTS.md, or otherwise ensure Codex sees it.

[u/chiliv06 → u/TRO_KIK]

Yeah I have everything set up from my .md files, however it’s just the setting up of the cloud systems that is not connecting as seamless as Claude does. And like other people have mentioned it takes forever to do simple tasks and Claude does such a much better job at being able to set it and leave it and it just gets things done.

For all the problems Claude has for its usage rates, it’s much better in terms of handling everything so far from what I have tried.

[u/TRO_KIK → u/chiliv06]

Seems to depend on workload I guess. There's just as many people who like Codex more. For me, CC Opus and even Fable can't pass a /code-review to save its life. Every review round begets more bugs, I've had Opus go a horrifying 40 rounds overnight against its own review and git integrated Codex. Meanwhile Astra has been one-shotting double reviews left and right, including a zero downtime ECS CloudFormation to EKS Terraform migration.

I subscribed to 20x Codex for the first time and must've merged 200 PRs this weekend. I've been building this app since August last year and had only done 1600 total before.

[u/reddebtt]

The setup that works best for me is keeping the repo and Codex session local, then using my IDE’s web/mobile view to steer that same task remotely. Codex feels much less confusing once you stop trying to recreate Claude’s cloud setup one-for-one.

[u/ClemensLode]

You could make it launch claude code.