Have you tried lower reasoning levels?
Yes and this makes it faster, but still quite a bit slower than Claude Code, and the tool use gap remains. Especially since the comparison for e.g. 5.2 Codex-Low is more like Sonnet than Opus, so that's the speed you're competing with.
Yes and this makes it faster, but still quite a bit slower than Claude Code, and the tool use gap remains. Especially since the comparison for e.g. 5.2 Codex-Low is more like Sonnet than Opus, so that's the speed you're competing with.