alt Hacker NewsI have the $20 a month subscription for ChatGPT and the $200/year subscription to Claude (company reimbursed).
I have yet to hit usage limits with Codex. I continuously reach it with Claude. I use them both the same way - hands on the wheel and very interactive, small changes and tell them both to update a file to keep up with what’s done and what to do as I test.
Codex gets caught in a loop more often trying to fix an issue. I tell it to summarize the issue, what it’s tried and then I throw Claude at it.
Claude can usually fix it. Once it is fixed, I tell Claude to note in the same file and then go back to Codex
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I will say that doing small modifications or asking a bunch of stuff fills the context the same in my observations. It depends on your codebase and the rest of stuff you use (sub agents, skills, etc)
I was once minimising the changes and trying to take the max of it. I did an uncountable numbers of tests and and variations. Didn't really matter much if I told it to do it all or change one line. I feel Claude code tries to fill the context as fast as possible anyway
I am not sure how worth Claude is right now. I still prefer that rather than codex, but I am starting to feel that's just a bias
I hit the Claude limit within an hour.
Most of my tokens are used arguing with the hallucinations.
I’ve given up on it.
Your goal should be to run agents all the time, all in parallel. If you’re not hitting limits, you’re massively underutilizing the VC intelligence subsidy
https://hyperengineering.bottlenecklabs.com/p/the-infinite-m...
I have a found Codex to be an exceptional code-reviewer of Claude's work.
The trick to reach the usage limit is to run many agents in parallel. Not that it’s an explicit goal of mine but I keep thinking of this blog post [0] and then try to get Codex to do as much for me as possible in parallel
[0]: http://theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com/2007/06/toc-stories-...