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wahnfriedenyesterday at 8:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

If you switch to Codex you will get a lot of tokens for $200, enough to more consistently use high reasoning as well. Cursor is simply far more expensive so you end up using less or using dumber models.

Claude Code is overrated as it uses many of its features and modalities to compensate for model shortcomings that are not as necessary for steering state of the art models like GPT 5.2


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MrOrelliOReillyyesterday at 9:46 AM

I think this is a total misunderstanding of Anthropic’s place in the AI race. Opus 4.5 is absolutely a state of the art model. I won’t knock anyone for preferring Codex, but I think you’re ignoring official and unofficial benchmarks.

See: https://artificialanalysis.ai

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ccmcareyyesterday at 8:34 AM

I disagree, the claude models seem the best at tool calling, opus 4.5 seems the smartest, and claude code (+ claude model) seems to make good use of subagents and planning in a way that codex doesn't

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