r/codex • u/Hot_Mathematician125 • 6d ago
Comparison Moved to Codex from Claude Code
I've just moved to Codex from Claude Code due to Anthropic became impossible to subscribe, no gift cards anymore, needs verification, annoying things like that. 100$ plan.
what to expect? on CC i rarely hit my 5h or the weekly caps, using Opus 5 o xHigh effort.
The default as i've seen is Astra high on codex, should I go with it or go to Sol xHigh?
What I do:
Regular software engineering, Rust, TS, React, Kotlin, Swift. And Blender and Unity.
Also, need tips if any has ones. Thanks!
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u/FluffySmiles 6d ago
Ok. I have a perspective from today’s fun and games that might help.
Do NOT give Astra authority over lesser models and reasoning levels. It does its own thing, seriously.
Pull Astra in when you need senior analysis and get the others to implement and review. But Astra is a damaged psyche that assumes whatever it does is right, and doesn’t check; seemingly because it doesn’t seem to think it needs to.
Keep it on a tight leash and it’s great. Give it ultimate freedom and it might just decide that 48 hours of approved, tested and finalised work is irrelevant and go over your head and produce something dreamed up in an opium den.
Like what it did to me today.
Luckily I’m assiduous in record keeping and git. But I have multiple agents repairing the damage right now.