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NoClaude Code, Codex · 18 Jan 2026

Codex makes a lot of unbalanced parenthesis mistakes even in agent, although it does eventually get it right by telling it to run emacs itself

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In the thread “The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study”, replying to this comment

Helped: Instructing agents to run Emacs to fix parenthesis mistakes.

Got in the way: Codex made unbalanced parenthesis mistakes and failed to reach feature parity.

… I ran out of CC credits fast so switched to codex. Codex makes a lot of unbalanced parenthesis mistakes even in agent, although it does eventually get it right by telling it to run emacs itself. Codex wasn't able to reach feature parity though, like the background color indications (I supply a video in the readme). …