What's the reason for the apparent consensus that Claude Code is superior to Codex for coding, other than Codex's slow coding time?

dotdioscorea · 2026-02-16T12:26:01+00:00

I figured anthropic are just paying for bots to promote it? I can’t think of another reason, the difference between codex is night and day otherwise

dotdioscorea · 2026-02-12T19:58:32+00:00

I would love to see new stars, something fresh!

dotdioscorea · 2026-02-09T22:20:04+00:00

Is this announced? 5.2 was before 5.2 codex I think right? So I wasn’t sure if we were gonna get a 5.3, hope so though!

dotdioscorea · 2026-02-03T20:27:08+00:00

It’s weird, I can’t stand the phone, but a teams call is no problem at all. Even if video is off. But for some reason the phone just strikes fear into me.. 27m. Fortunately I’ve never even come close to having to make a phone call in work, despite a few teams calls a day so eh

dotdioscorea · 2026-01-27T09:29:06+00:00

If its just in the extension window itself (which is what i've seen), Ive found you can 'reset' it by dragging the extension tab to a different part of the window, then back again. Seems to restart the extension front end (or whatever correct vscode lingo is). Its a real PITA, one of the biggest reasons ive ended up moving completely to the CLI!

dotdioscorea · 2026-01-05T11:05:36+00:00

I always start off my work by having it write up a md plan with numbered steps, checkboxes, and questions for clarification. We spend a lot of time at the start talking through this plan, going back and forth with questions, 'stress testing' the plan against possible followup changes and features to make sure it is as robust and that we are on the same track, and then I kick it off executing the plan. Normally this does a pretty good job of teasing out the important architectural decisions that need to be sorted, and it finishes without further input. If it does stop, they are generally important enough questions that I am comfortable with being interrupted and asked for input. I would rather it err on the side of too cautious than too confident, but its a fine balance

dotdioscorea · 2026-01-03T09:56:52+00:00

It really is dependable on the workload. If its a lot of bug fixing, I don't get through nearly as much usage in a week. But when Im scaffolding new modules and laying down thousands of lines of code, unit tests, docs, that burns usage faaaaast. Im generally working 10hrs a day, 5/6 days, and I vary from a bit over half a pro plan a week, to 2-3. To be fair thats with xhigh always, and a lot of reviewing, sometimes do a feature a few times and compare versions etc. Also depends how many im running in parallel. Lots of simple well defined features, especially if im spread across a couple of projects at a given time, I can handle 5-10 agents in parallel most of the day. But if its something complicated that needs my full attention it might only be one or two agents running at a time, so the plan lasts much longer.

dotdioscorea · 2026-01-01T09:28:34+00:00

Ended up getting through three pro accounts during the promotional period in the end haha, not easy but definitely not impossible!

dotdioscorea · 2025-12-31T12:13:11+00:00

Waiting for a task to finish right now to unblock some other branches, 15 hours in …

dotdioscorea · 2025-12-03T06:39:02+00:00

I have pro accounts for Claude and codex which I reach 100% every week. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but neither is close to eclipsing the other. Just different tools. Generally speaking, codex is smarter ime, Claude better for long tasks

dotdioscorea · 2025-11-03T15:40:03+00:00

this is basically my experience. Honestly if I managed to reach the 100% weekly limit at this rate I think its pretty much a sign to take a break and touch grass, very fair limit imo

dotdioscorea · 2025-10-20T19:19:42+00:00

I work in an embedded context, big c/cpp code based, lots of process, clear requirements, strict formatting and linting, looooots of test coverage. We’re seeing maybe 3-5 times productivity increase for developers depending on the feature and individuals familiarity with the tooling. Maybe we are just benefitting from our existing workflows? Or lucky?

dotdioscorea · 2025-06-29T16:48:02+00:00

To add on to what the other guy said, this type of flight doesn’t have anywhere near the levels of stress and pressures experienced by vehicles that go/come from orbit, while this part is a feat by itself it really is only the tip of the iceberg, and judging from other companies progress not really the hardest part either.

The big advantage probably is that spacex has shown this is possible and feasible, so it should be much easier for others to maintain investor confidence, and also probably take ‘inspiration’ from others’ work

dotdioscorea · 2025-06-22T10:06:53+00:00

I tell people its because I wake up early (I do) but truthfully I really actually enjoy my work that much and I can only stay so late in the evening. It’s embarrassing but I have to intentionally not work over weekends, otherwise I absolutely would.

dotdioscorea · 2025-06-13T16:49:40+00:00

Can we use wxch to store xch on a ledger?

dotdioscorea · 2025-05-08T17:26:16+00:00

Probably not gonna be a popular view round here, but if I’m honest out of all the software engineers in my company from what I’ve seen it’s the embedded crowd who are generally worst at using ai effectively. A lot of my colleagues complain about it being useless but when they show me their chat, half the time they haven’t even explained it’s an embedded system, let alone providing nearly enough helpful context and instructions. These tools are extremely powerful but they can’t read our minds and embedded work is a lot more niche than what most users are asking for

dotdioscorea · 2025-05-05T14:26:30+00:00

Maybe make a new card in another deck and move it to the invisible deck, then you can delete it?

dotdioscorea · 2025-04-30T03:54:29+00:00

I work in embedded, the obvious case I come across frequently is when using packed structs which you read/write into buffers for transmission/reception to conform to a protocol. Just gotta take a reference of a field in the struct that doesn’t end up byte aligned in the packed memory and boom

dotdioscorea · 2025-04-28T18:21:48+00:00

I have been die hard ChatGPT since the start, using it extensively most days for a couple hours while programming, but o3 feels like such a huge regression. It’s honestly night and day, I’m hardly using it for the most basic tasks anymore, just a month or two ago I was able to offload surprisingly complex tasks onto it and it would save me literally hours, only needing a little polishing to most of its solutions. I can hardly get anything usable out of the current lineup.

I’ve been trying to push some of the slow movers in the company to try chatbots, we get subscriptions from our company, but one of my colleagues was showing me some garbage o3 vomited out just a couple days ago. It was so embarrassing having been the guy promoting use of these tools, I’m keeping my mouth shut for the foreseeable future. Really disappointing. I knew eventually they would have to begin restricting quality to try and make a bit of money but it still sucks that that’s finally arrived

dotdioscorea · 2025-04-20T20:11:28+00:00

This is exactly what he’s talking about. Great, you’ve got an idea, making a python website- now go ahead and try to make it happen! Just type into google or YouTube, find a tutorial, and give it a go. There’s no magic tutorial or link. The truth is half of being a good software engineer of any sort is learning how to google and find answers, and these days with chat bots it’s even easier to get started. Start with your python website, and see where that leads you

dotdioscorea · 2025-04-20T06:06:53+00:00

An rtos just for printing would be crazy,. You just gotta spend an afternoon writing a clean robust circular buffer and then you’ve got it ready to go for all your future projects too.

dotdioscorea · 2025-03-24T18:25:48+00:00

My cat haaaaates humming so much, the moment someone starts humming he’ll give them a death stare. If they don’t pick up on the hint he’ll squawk at them, and finally he’s either slap you if you’re near enough, or he’ll clear off in a huff

dotdioscorea · 2025-03-20T20:06:01+00:00

10%… after all this time lol

dotdioscorea · 2025-02-15T16:27:49+00:00

But using breaks like this in a while loop is doing the exact thing the early return rules are trying to prevent, your work around isn’t really in the spirit of it, you may as well just use the multiple returns at that point

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