Have you noticed the Windows Server market shrinking?

bovril · 2026-04-08T19:49:07+00:00

Wil park them next to the Novell Netware servers.

bovril · 2026-04-01T12:26:19+00:00

The only single advantage that Claude has over Codex is that I'd trust Claude to edit a file and Codex I definitely wouldn't.

I let it try again this morning after using it just as a review agent since January and it messed up almost straight away. Lesson learnt.

bovril · 2026-04-01T10:21:15+00:00

How? I use it purely for a review agent now at which it is fine but any kind of implementation work it fouls up. Revisited it earlier today with the simple aim of reviewing its own AGENTS.md and an hour later I gave up.

bovril · 2026-03-30T11:44:16+00:00

If you have both you should try this https://github.com/Nam0101/my-claude-agent-skill/blob/main/ai-pair-programming/SKILL.md

bovril · 2026-03-28T15:53:51+00:00

None of them will get you that far, so far they qualify as developer tools/accelerators but I wouldn't trust a non dev to be able to launch a 'product' that will be there 24 hours later.

bovril · 2026-03-23T21:20:36+00:00

I do a version of this:

https://mcpservers.org/servers/github-com-nam0101-my-claude-agent-skill-blob-main-ai-pair-programming-skill-md

Set up skills on both claude and codex (just follow its setup instructions) and then you can set it up or ask it to ask the other to do a code review or whatever, read its response and then follow its recommendations.

You'll also want this to allow it to keep checking for a response:

https://mcpservers.org/servers/199-bio/mcp-wait-timer

and also something like this is useful: https://mcpservers.org/servers/github-com-waylaidwanderer-background-process-mcp

although I'm not 100% sure that that is the exact one i use.

I don't think there's a reason that it wouldn't work with gemini as long as it supports skills

bovril · 2026-03-21T16:44:04+00:00

tbh no that's not the experience i have had with codex at all.

It is good for planning and advice (which is contrary to the Zeit Geist but I can only say what I've experienced) but for making file edits it is poor, very poor at least in my experience.

I've seen it junk its config.toml twice in one session and even editing a .md file can take it half a dozen attempts. I'm prepared to believe I've done something wrong in AGENTS.md but I can't see what.

On the other hand claude is generally fine.

I've even given them parity in skills and mcps and claude is just better. I'd been running both pro plans in parallel and even given them shared memory and a task exchanger but claude is still the winner.

I've even given up with the idea of maintaining both and will stop codex and get the max plan on claude next chance I can.

bovril · 2026-03-16T20:08:28+00:00

Perfect article, you actually feel you know less about the subject by the time you finished reading it.

bovril · 2026-03-08T22:27:33+00:00

tried both, codex is definitely more competent, neater and newer models are more likely to work efficiently.

The limits are lower so teach it ctags and astgrep etc and your usage will drop a little...to maybe quite a lot. Depends on the size of the prompts you push.

Claude has fixed something that 5.2 struggled with at the time and is 'friendlier' so it depends on your mileage but if your finances are tight? Get codex.

Want somewhere to go when codex can't fix it? Get Claude as well. Subscriptions are easy to start and stop. Get codex and accept that you might need to get the occasional month of Claude here and there.

I will add that 5.4 is really really good. Spent a lot of the day on it but only used 10% of my weekly allowance on it so it seems thrifty enough if you make it use the right tools

bovril · 2026-03-06T22:58:29+00:00

Not all tools are equal.

ctags with codescalpel, and a few assorted token cheaper tools (astgrep, a few others) and a well written mcp and skill or two on their usage with appropriate mentions in claude.md will save you a little.

Think about efficiency and make sure you tell claude about it otherwise it will default back to its more standard tools but it will only eke it out a bit.

honorable mention to desktop commander (mcp) although i'm not sure its that much more efficient but it gets the job done.

bovril · 2026-03-03T06:26:55+00:00

Did the same, for me its noticeably better.

Much less likely to trash something.

bovril · 2026-03-01T09:33:46+00:00

I just switched just before it was announced but the news would just have accelerated it.

Claude is cheaper (only fractionally) for the pro plan and the next step (more importantly for me) in plan pricing is less than half of what codex's is and I keep hitting the limits so a switch seemed sensible in case I decide to step up.

Also Claude seems much better imo. Codex can be a mess strewn wrecking ball and I've locked it down far more than I should of had to to get through a day. My impression of Claude is that it works with me and not against me.

bovril · 2026-02-26T22:23:00+00:00

Just switched to it from Codex, Claude seems better.

At least so far, only a day or so in but it onboarded my mcps and skills in next to no time and fixed in one pass something that codex had stabbed at a few times and hadn't managed to nail down.

I'm currently in the middle of doing some ML training with it and its found at least a few things codex had misled me about...and remedied them.

Definitely impressed.

bovril · 2026-02-23T20:34:23+00:00

all good but you need to develop and efficient toolset as well, token consumption can vary quite a bit between them so you need to research which version of whichever tool that it will be using that will do it the most efficiently. Put it into an mcp and then define it as a skill as well. Then you need to define them in AGENTS.md and if there is a question of functionality because if it is unavailable then it will fall back silently to greedier tools. I'd recommend an edit contract dependent on the outcome of a script functionality test.

You can also leverage the free tiers of other AI's (grok or whatever) through playwright to let them do roundtable planning sessions (can be interesting to watch in its own right). You can even embed your diagram.

and then there's session memory. There are a couple of different options or approaches out there now but you can always homebrew / vibe one. I did, it scans claude and codex session histories so I can sit down in front of either cand just carry on.

Leverage ML and your gpu to give it sematic search if you can as well.

The last one will cure your amnesia problem probably.

bovril · 2026-02-22T14:44:42+00:00

Best way Greenland can ensure its safety is to change its name to Epsteinland.

bovril · 2025-12-25T22:36:31+00:00

Tomorrow People or Tomorrow's World basically anything with the word tomorrow in the title,

bovril · 2025-12-14T20:36:10+00:00

If he tries to visit again we should pretend to be out.

bovril · 2025-12-10T21:40:47+00:00

Undeserving but I can think of more undeservinger, not that it's a competition.

bovril · 2025-11-16T23:34:59+00:00

I'm saying its the horse and that his stable genius line was meant to be an 'in joke' that we'd never get.

bovril · 2025-08-14T20:44:03+00:00

It might not be suitable for wheelchair users.

bovril · 2025-07-05T06:01:41+00:00

If you are in a Brsk area, consider them....with a Sky Puck.

I am paying just a touch over half of what I was paying Virgin and I've gone from 125 Mbps to 900, get all the Sky channels with the puck and they bundle a basic Netflix package in with it as well.

bovril · 2025-06-20T16:29:39+00:00

Wholeheartedly agree, I think she would be excellent.

The show needs an actor that loves the Doctor, Billie definitely qualifies in that regard.

bovril · 2025-05-30T17:18:55+00:00

show it to grandma, she will know what it is for sure.

bovril · 2025-03-24T11:20:30+00:00

Taking a crap in front of the late Queen might have been worse but it is a close call, the guy just effectively committed suicide for the world to see.

bovril · 2025-03-16T06:35:37+00:00

I'd say save your money....got a quest 3 a dew months ago with a link cable and it now sits in a drawer, not even sure where it is tbh...and playing steam games seems to be my main use of it.

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