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postalcoderyesterday at 5:13 PM8 repliesview on HN

There is so much less drama involved with the Codex world. You don't realize how oppressive CC is until you've escaped it. Outages, weird restrictions, degradation, accelerated usage, etc etc etc.


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timcobbyesterday at 5:22 PM

Totally. My experience as well. After some time with codex you're like come on Claude can you just stfu! Haha. I now almost always instruct Claude with specific length requirements when I ask questions. Otherwise, it just blathers and blathers in the most annoying of ways. "Oppressive" is spot on in my opinion

jakswayesterday at 5:28 PM

I'll agree and expand on "weird restrictions" -- I used to check the claude usage graphs multiple times a day to see where I'm at on my weekly budget. With gpt 5.5 I don't think I'm working differently but haven't felt the need to check anything because I think I've hit my limit... once? on some egregious edge case scenario iirc

m_fayertoday at 12:13 AM

And I know this is petty but the CC cli/harness just grates. It’s overcomplicated, performatively cutesy, and buggy. It’s in my way. The codex harness gives me what I need and gets out of the way.

Cider9986yesterday at 6:02 PM

Even less drama with open models like GLM.

matheusmoreirayesterday at 11:20 PM

> accelerated usage

Can you post more information about this?

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Amir6yesterday at 5:48 PM

Let alone getting banned out right with no reason, zero updates after weeks, and not even being able to download your chat history (despite the feature being available (I assume they vibe coded it and it does not work!). My story below;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597861

tomCombyesterday at 9:48 PM

Um, the 'codex world' is the OpenAI world and there is a ton of drama and product confusion there!

Anthropic has certainly had some drama inflicted on them by the US administration, but otherwise they have just had heads down and executed with great focus. That is why they have succeeded.

Yajirobeyesterday at 10:22 PM

At least Anthropic doesn't bend down to Pentagon/Trump administration

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