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CuriouslyCtoday at 12:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Codex is actually significantly better than Claude Code now, assuming you have a clear idea of what you want to do and how. Claude's secret sauce is that it'll run off and do stuff that's mostly right without a lot of prompting, but that also makes it willful/disobedient and causes it to be bad for "finishing" work, since it'll circle around your objective in an opinionated way.

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Verdextoday at 1:16 PM

Hey, would you mind elaborating a bit on this:

> assuming you have a clear idea of what you want to do and how

I mean, if I have a sufficiently clear idea of what and how, then surely just coding it manually would work significantly better. Unless maybe I am a painfully slow typer.

Without some level of "actually I'm not sure exactly" permitted, then I'm not really sure what LLMs bring to the table.

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