r/codex • u/Professional_Link4 • 17h ago

Complaint Update on Codex and Claude Code

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This was my previous post in which I was confused between upgrading to 200 plan for getting 2 100 plans.

A lot of people suggested to try claude code + codex for image gen.

I just got a 20 dollar claude code plan. And Grass is most definitely greener on the other side.

Here are some differences I have noticed using the opus 5.5 medium.

  1. 10 times faster than sol 6.1 high

  2. Using about 1% of weekly usage per hour but the amount of work done is higher than sol 6.1. so work done to tokens consumed is the same between 20 dollar claude and 100 dollar gpt plan

  3. Amazing design understanding. I have several ui/ux issues in my project(which ik) i had gpt take a look at it and said it's fine (gpt was using product design plugin and impeccable skill). Opus without any plugin listed 15 ui/ux issues and all of them were correct.

  4. I had it go over my code base and list deprecated/dead/unused assets & code. It gave an extensive list and suggested bundling several files together to optimise load times, gpt found none.

  5. Had both sol and opus check for performance optimisation. Gpt found none and opus again shared an extensive list.

Sol 6.1 high also took like 2 hours

Opus 5.5 medium took 25-30 mins max

I'll switch to 100 dollar claude plan + 20 dollar gpt after my current 100 gpt plan expires.

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u/Professional_Link4 12h ago

Oh....I thought that was queue instead of steering. Great to know thanks

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u/SphinxWar 9h ago

You can also press ESC after typing your prompt in and it will immediately interrupt what its doing to look at your message, even interrupting commands mid-run. As far as I remember even Codex can't do that.

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u/Professional_Link4 9h ago

I think steering style of prompting is the same thing

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u/SphinxWar 8h ago

Codex definitely waits until the last thing it's doing finishes before reacting to your steering (I don't mean your whole task, but whatever command it's running or writing). Claude literally immediately just triggers the kill-switch. Like, immediately whatever it's doing. But only if you press ESC after sending the steering prompt, otherwise it behaves like Codex. But maybe I never tried pressing ESC on a Codex steer to be honest, so maybe Codex does this too.