alt Hacker NewsI am super bullish on claude code / codex cli + LSP and other deterministic codemod and code intelligence tools.
I was playing around with codex this weekend and honestly having a great time (my opinion of it has 180'd since gpt-5.2(-codex) came out) but I was getting annoyed at it because it kept missing references when I asked it to rename or move symbols. So I built a skill that teaches it to use rope for mechanical python codebase refactors: https://github.com/brian-yu/python-rope-refactor
Been pretty happy with it so far!
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Are you having a positive experience with Codex compared to Claude Code? Codex in my brief experience was... not good w/ 5.1
Interesting to see that you work at OpenAI but had to build a skill like this yourself.
Surprised that you don't have internal tools or skills that could do this already!
Shows how much more work there is still to be done in this space.
OpenAI engineer fails to rename references because his F2 key has been replaced with the Copilot button?
No LSP support is wild.