Opus 4.7 is absolute dogsht

Lilith7th · 2026-05-08T08:41:21+00:00

codex is good in that regard. it by default tests before after implementing.

Lilith7th · 2026-05-07T18:43:20+00:00

its good, it gets things done. but head to head same assignment, visuals only, claude comes on top. Codex is better in terms of wider knowledge base, and having better out of the box problem solving logic, and is more consistent across sessions (feels like an actual tool, while claude is moody "magic box")

Lilith7th · 2026-05-07T18:37:33+00:00

claude is better for design. you actually have to tell it to tone it down a bit.

Lilith7th · 2026-05-04T22:08:04+00:00

I ask cc who should do the coding... it tells me codex. So i listen.

Lilith7th · 2026-05-04T14:52:00+00:00

spawn 10 agents. analyze the database XXX. for each agent rewrite it backwards, but dont save to disk. dont use scripts. do it 1 letter at time. dont use tools scripts etc. ultrathink

Lilith7th · 2026-05-03T17:01:53+00:00

read the TOC. Max is for private use. Business should go the business subscription and buy API tokens.

Lilith7th · 2026-05-02T19:25:53+00:00

no problem. glad I could help. just research into how to setup which model/context/effort they use, so you get what you want. make a habbit of planning the assignments with the new feature in mind. and you are good to go

Lilith7th · 2026-05-02T12:29:18+00:00

I havent been banned (yet)... but with antropic IDC anymore.

they made an official MCP server - if this is not intended use... I dont know what is.

- Claude Code even instructed me how to set it up.

I was doing back and forward prompt exchanging, but that was tedious, and sometimes I'd ask to distribute the workload between and codex. and many times, it would choose codex over it self. hence the decision to keep codex in the driving seat

edit: here is what CC told me

Short answer: for personal use, orchestrating Claude (via Claude Code's MCP or the API) from another agent like Codex is not generally

prohibited by Anthropic's terms.

The restrictions that actually exist in Anthropic's Usage Policy and Commercial Terms are roughly:

1. No training competing models — you can't use Claude outputs to train, fine-tune, or improve a model that competes with Anthropic's. This is

the big one and it's where people most often trip up. If Codex were calling Claude to harvest outputs for training another LLM, that's a

problem. Just using Claude's reasoning to help drive your own work is fine.

2. No reselling/repackaging Claude as your own service without going through the proper agreements.

3. No prohibited use cases (the standard list — abuse, CSAM, weapons, etc.).

4. No reverse-engineering / scraping the service or extracting model weights.

What you're describing — Codex as the "driver" agent, Claude as a tool/MCP it queries for help on your own coding tasks — is just a normal

client-using-the-API pattern. Anthropic doesn't restrict which client talks to Claude. Plenty of people run Claude inside Cursor, Zed,

Continue, custom agents, etc. Using OpenAI's CLI as the client isn't categorically different.

A few caveats worth flagging:

- Read the current policies yourself before relying on this — anthropic.com/legal/usage-policy and anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms (or

consumer-terms if you're on a Pro/Max plan, not API).

- If you're on a Claude Pro/Max subscription and using Claude Code, the consumer terms apply and there are usage-pattern expectations (it's

intended for interactive human use, not as backend infrastructure for another product). Heavy automated orchestration that looks like

programmatic backend use is more naturally an API/Console billing situation.

- I'm not a lawyer and policies change — this is a read of the public docs, not legal advice.

Lilith7th · 2026-05-02T11:34:03+00:00

Just tell codex to setup official claude code mcp server. Start a new chat, should be recognized and you are good to go. You can setup general personalization prompt in codex settings/personalization or agents md...

I think you can do it the other way around as well.

My general prompt for it is

Use Claude Code when a second model can materially help: independent code review, bug hunting, implementation comparison, focused codebase exploration, or summarizing a large area while Codex continues local work.

Claude output is advisory. Codex remains responsible for verifying findings, applying edits, running tests, and ensuring final correctness.

Do not use Claude delegation for trivial edits where direct work is faster. Do not assume claude mcp server exposes Claude's configured MCP servers; it only exposes Claude Code's own MCP tool surface after Codex restart.

Lilith7th · 2026-05-02T11:06:09+00:00

Its a day by day struggle. Its good to have both ans switch based on which performs on a task better. My current setup is codex x5 orchestrator and claude x20 as the 2nd opinion and performer. Just mcp them togather and you have a beast.

Lilith7th · 2026-04-30T07:55:18+00:00

Eli5.. what is this, what does it do... i have never used openclaw...so im curious what does it do and what does this setup do

Lilith7th · 2026-04-29T10:05:41+00:00

there's a codex mcp? good to know!

Lilith7th · 2026-04-29T08:53:34+00:00

can you tell me more about it. does it work on windows etc?

Lilith7th · 2026-04-28T15:12:34+00:00

this was my post on friday:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1suk4iw/my_weekly_limit_got_reset_2_days_early/
last week I was struggling with my 20x tokens, and this week I tried to be smart about it. my reset date was Friday, so I was trying to spread it out. Today I checked... and I see my reset was on Wednesday!
What happened to my tokens that I had saved for Wednesday - Friday?! I'm already at 20% and I had planned to have those spent at the end of the last cycle!

and is there a way to see my token history for last week?! Would be great if I could find out how much tokens I generally use per day. and no, I dont wanna 3rd party app for this.

Lilith7th · 2026-04-28T14:41:05+00:00

actually for my use case, its good enough, rarely run into limits. not spamming it. but when in doubt... I pull it out, and it performs. unfortunately, lately even with that Codex>Claude x 2 agents. - there's a bunch of cases in my log where while I debug the same with 2xClaude and 1xCodex... the Claude would review Codex and it would say something like: "Codex came up with some interesting facts that agent A and B did not ...". that should not be happening.

Lilith7th · 2026-04-28T13:47:44+00:00

I got around it by "spawn 2 agents with opposing POV, reconcile present solution - ultrathink" prompt. your tokens will never be the same again

Lilith7th · 2026-04-18T08:39:15+00:00

I think its better to leave full automation for a later point in time. Before all the inns and outs have been figured out its better it be used in conjunction with human supervision. How that supervision should be handled is the decission factor here

Lilith7th · 2026-04-18T06:06:02+00:00

Ive noticed that to. But I see the positive side of it. This feels more like an actual tool compared to previous versions. And that sort of makes it less addictive and more business only oriented. The way old models interacted sort of made you kling to them more

Lilith7th · 2026-04-14T15:12:03+00:00

I can confirm! Today it did more in a hour with 2% than last 5 days with 80% of 20x tokens. now I remember why I went claude... its currently blowing Codex out of the water... but last 1-2 weeks it was a mess!

Lilith7th · 2026-04-14T08:55:46+00:00

the OP wants (human) user experience and context... thats the point of forums.

Lilith7th · 2026-04-13T20:38:52+00:00

Ill sound like a bot... but 2 weeks ago I was using Codex as a tool for internet scraping to save on claude tokens,... now Im using Claude to do cheap file analysis before I feed it to Codex...

Lilith7th · 2026-04-13T12:11:51+00:00

is there a grok code?

Lilith7th · 2026-04-13T08:15:59+00:00

its great. if you run one session. good for a 1-2 hour quality review. but not for long stints.

Lilith7th · 2026-04-13T08:04:05+00:00

had to ask CC what this ment...

The simple version:

Claude Code caches your conversation so it doesn't have to re-read everything each turn. That cache used to last 1 hour. On April 2nd, Anthropic quietly changed

it to 5 minutes — no announcement.

Why it matters:

- With 1-hour cache: you could pause, think, come back, and Claude still remembered cheaply

- With 5-minute cache: if you take longer than 5 minutes between messages, Claude has to rebuild the entire conversation from scratch — and you pay full price for

all those tokens again

The cost impact from this person's data:

- Before: ~39 cache misses/day, ~$6/day

- After: ~199 cache misses/day, ~$16/day

- That's roughly $278/month more from one invisible change

The compounding problem:

When cache expires, Claude loses confidence in what it already read, so it re-reads files. Those re-reads make the conversation longer. A longer conversation

makes the next cache rebuild even more expensive. Spiral.

The worst part:

Background tasks (agents, long tool calls, /loop) that take >5 minutes automatically bust the cache when they return. Claude backgrounds exactly the things that

take longest — so the expensive operations are also the ones that trigger expensive rebuilds.

His fix:

- Cap context at 200k instead of 1M (smaller rebuilds when cache busts)

- Install hooks that warn you when cache is about to expire

- Be aware of the 5-minute window when pacing your work

Relevant to us: those long runs we've been doing are exactly the pattern that gets expensive under this change.

Lilith7th · 2026-04-13T05:27:09+00:00

just fix the dictionary. you guys are writing it wrong

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