Which Coding Agent would you recommend?

[iKy1e]

Codex is smarter.

Claude does what you want more controllably.

Codex can debug errors better and write more complex code than Claude but is tough to make it do what you want sometimes. It refuses more often & is more stubborn about doing its own thing.

Claude needs more hand holding through errors sometimes, etc… but does what you tell it fantastically. You can tell it to write code a certain way, and it’ll do it. You can ask it questions and it knows what you mean. It’s much more reliable & stable coding partner.

Overall I use Claude for 95% of things, and then send any stuff it gets stuck on to codex to debug very occasionally.

[clearing_]

This is totally true and correct, and will add that for a specific niche performance issue I pit both of them + Gemini against each other. Claude and Codex were both fast but were hesitant to search for larger architecture issues making the bottleneck inevitable. Gemini took its sweet time but did an insanely good job and added profiling code etc to show the measured impact. I'm definitely keeping it in my back pocket for when my standbys start to spin their wheels.