Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude
A developer shares personal impressions comparing the performance of Codex and Claude as coding assistants over the course of a week. The author notes that while Codex produces cleaner, more technical code, Claude remains more familiar and effective for urgent debugging tasks.
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All about coding Ruby and Rails technical content written by Lucian Ghinda home posts archive about llms.txt Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude Aug 21st, 2026 Markdown version #codex #claude-code #coding-agents #developer-tools #ai Some quick and very personal impressions from using Codex more than Claude this week (I will do a full analysis during the weekend hopefully).
(1) While I tried this year to keep Claude and Codex on par, having the same set of plugins/skills and so on, Claude had more skills, as I created skills out of some sessions and not all of them were ported to Codex. Fix for this is simple: Point Codex at the Claude skills folder and ask it to transform them for Claude
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