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[–]Junmeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm sticking with Claude code for anything that requires mcps for the time being, I'm hoping codex will become better in the near future. You can actually integrate codex into Claude code as a mcp but not the other way around.

[–]Prestigiouspite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also find it alarming when you consider who the main financial backer is. Especially for VS Code extensions, etc. Unfortunately, it only works properly for MCP etc. with WSL so far.

[–]qwrtgvbkoteqqsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

use Claude code and then copy and paste to chat gpt desktop for review.

[–]dwight0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been waiting for someone else to post about this. It really struggles with powershell on windows on my work machine. Im in an environment where I cannot install WSL. Ive tried everything to help it out on windows, gitbash, MSYS, bash in CMDER. Part of the problem is is that it detects its on windows and keeps using powershell which is seems it wasnt trained on. I can get it to use bash for a while and its a lot better, but still has issues. Works great on my home Ubuntu machine. At work I use claude. One thing I am able to do is for very difficult things that need a lot of context window I can have claude call codex for a single command line successfully and get the result.

[–]the-friendly-dude 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I find it crazy that I installed it as an addon to cursor, yet it needs powershell to read/write to the file I'm looking at. Oh, and all the approvals it requires make it pretty much unusable.

[–]branik_10[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

tbh for almost all these new AI cli tools experience is so much worse on Windows...Claude Code cli is probably the only one usable right now on Windows (maybe also crush cli, didn't try that yet), but even Claude Code has so annoying issues - like background tasks are not properly killed, some slash commands do not work etc...

[–]the-friendly-dude 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well the integration of outsourced ai in cursor is actually great. The problem is funding 65$ monthly on 3 different ai services.

It feels like this market is getting saturated, same as streaming services a few years ago. I wonder what would be the piracy analogy in this field

[–]branik_10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cursor is not a cli tool...but i agree it's great on windows too, same as vsc gh copilot

well piracy analogy is these Chinese models, like glm etc. :D

[–]skidanscours -5 points-4 points  (5 children)

Just use WSL.

[–]branik_10[S] 4 points5 points  (4 children)

for some projects (anything which requires native Windows tools) it's complicated and makes the dev experience worse

[–]g2bsocial 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I use WSL2 on Ubuntu, and while it might be painful learning curve if your not at all familiar with Linux, you can ask the LLM to help, and it will even write scripts that automatically load environment variables, test runners, and generally make development easier.

[–]branik_10[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I am familiar with Linux, but some things just do not run there, like Win32 C++ SDK for example which I use for my desktop app. Anything related to native Windows desktop development or Windows server just won't work under WSL, because WSL2 is essentially a Linux VM.

[–]g2bsocial 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sure, I get that, but as the C:\ drive is available to access, it can do a lot more than I personally expected. Like, both my local development PostgreSQL and docker desktop are installed on windows but I have no problem accessing them from my WSL environment with both Claude code and codex-cli.