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There is so much less drama involved with the Codex world. You don't realize how oppressive CC is until you've escaped it. Outages, weird restrictions, degradat

There is so much less drama involved with the Codex world. You don't realize how oppressive CC is until you've escaped it. Outages, weird restrictions, degradation, accelerated usage, etc etc etc.

timcobb 2mo ago
Totally. My experience as well. After some time with codex you're like come on Claude can you just stfu! Haha. I now almost always instruct Claude with specific length requirements when I ask questions. Otherwise, it just blathers and blathers in the most annoying of ways. "Oppressive" is spot on in my opinion
jakswa 2mo ago
I'll agree and expand on "weird restrictions" -- I used to check the claude usage graphs multiple times a day to see where I'm at on my weekly budget. With gpt 5.5 I don't think I'm working differently but haven't felt the need to check anything because I think I've hit my limit... once? on some egregious edge case scenario iirc
- rafaelmn 2mo ago
  Same here - it's probably that OpenAI needs to buy goodwill with developers to infiltrate corps and Anthropic is trying to squeeze the lead into revenue. The only question is - how much longer can OpenAI burn money before it needs to start showing signs of profitability
Amir6 2mo ago
Let alone getting banned out right with no reason, zero updates after weeks, and not even being able to download your chat history (despite the feature being available (I assume they vibe coded it and it does not work!). My story below; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597861
Cider9986 2mo ago
Even less drama with open models like GLM.
tomComb 2mo ago
Um, the 'codex world' is the OpenAI world and there is a ton of drama and product confusion there! Anthropic has certainly had some drama inflicted on them by the US administration, but otherwise they have just had heads down and executed with great focus. That is why they have succeeded.
Yajirobe 2mo ago
At least Anthropic doesn't bend down to Pentagon/Trump administration
- hirvi74 2mo ago
  Perhaps not, but I wouldn't say Anthropic is too far removed. https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2025/Anthropic-Joins-Palantirs-FedStart-Program-to-Deploy-Claude-Application/ https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2025/Anthropic-J...
matheusmoreira 2mo ago
> accelerated usage Can you post more information about this?
- postalcoder 2mo ago
  The only way to understand those moments where you sometimes Claude acts mysteriously is to be terminally online. https://www.google.com/search?q=claude+usage+draining+site:www.reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=claude+usage+draining+site:w...
m_fayer 2mo ago
And I know this is petty but the CC cli/harness just grates. It’s overcomplicated, performatively cutesy, and buggy. It’s in my way. The codex harness gives me what I need and gets out of the way.

There is so much less drama involved with the Codex world. You don't realize how oppressive CC is until you've escaped it. Outages, weird restrictions, degradation, accelerated usage, etc etc etc.

timcobb 2mo ago

Totally. My experience as well. After some time with codex you're like come on Claude can you just stfu! Haha. I now almost always instruct Claude with specific length requirements when I ask questions. Otherwise, it just blathers and blathers in the most annoying of ways. "Oppressive" is spot on in my opinion

jakswa 2mo ago

I'll agree and expand on "weird restrictions" -- I used to check the claude usage graphs multiple times a day to see where I'm at on my weekly budget. With gpt 5.5 I don't think I'm working differently but haven't felt the need to check anything because I think I've hit my limit... once? on some egregious edge case scenario iirc

rafaelmn 2mo ago
Same here - it's probably that OpenAI needs to buy goodwill with developers to infiltrate corps and Anthropic is trying to squeeze the lead into revenue. The only question is - how much longer can OpenAI burn money before it needs to start showing signs of profitability

Amir6 2mo ago

Let alone getting banned out right with no reason, zero updates after weeks, and not even being able to download your chat history (despite the feature being available (I assume they vibe coded it and it does not work!). My story below; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597861

Cider9986 2mo ago

Even less drama with open models like GLM.

tomComb 2mo ago

Um, the 'codex world' is the OpenAI world and there is a ton of drama and product confusion there! Anthropic has certainly had some drama inflicted on them by the US administration, but otherwise they have just had heads down and executed with great focus. That is why they have succeeded.

Yajirobe 2mo ago

At least Anthropic doesn't bend down to Pentagon/Trump administration

hirvi74 2mo ago
Perhaps not, but I wouldn't say Anthropic is too far removed. https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2025/Anthropic-Joins-Palantirs-FedStart-Program-to-Deploy-Claude-Application/ https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2025/Anthropic-J...

matheusmoreira 2mo ago

> accelerated usage Can you post more information about this?

postalcoder 2mo ago
The only way to understand those moments where you sometimes Claude acts mysteriously is to be terminally online. https://www.google.com/search?q=claude+usage+draining+site:www.reddit.com https://www.google.com/search?q=claude+usage+draining+site:w...

m_fayer 2mo ago

And I know this is petty but the CC cli/harness just grates. It’s overcomplicated, performatively cutesy, and buggy. It’s in my way. The codex harness gives me what I need and gets out of the way.