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Codex is like a surgical instrument, it does exactly what I want it to and never bloats the codebase
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Helped: Codex acts as a surgical instrument and finds correctness bugs.
Got in the way: Claude writes too much unrequested garbage and misses bugs.
… For me, with 20 years experience engineering across the stack for venture backed companies to FAANG, I cannot handle Claude at all, it writes way too much garbage that I never asked for. Codex is like a surgical instrument, it does exactly what I want it to and never bloats the codebase. Anyone spending days with Claude with almost inevitably end up with a bloated buggy mess. …