Hacker News Reader

Comment by estetlinus | Hacker News Reader

Recently switched to Codex after 6m in Claude. Codex seems more open, it’s easier to follow what the model is doing and the approvals have a better UX. Overall, it just feels more transparent. Cost of switching was close to 0.

I don’t like that Claude became more opaque around February, including the system prompts. 33k feels way too much.

View on HN

I use both now and agree they're basically interchangeable.

I appreciate that Codex is open source and OpenAI has explicitly said using the subscription with other agents is ok. OpenAI has been much more consumer-friendly recently.

And OpenAI didn't try to silently degrade performance of their top model if its (extremely sensitive) safety sensors went off ...

Anthropic is the silver lining keeping p(doom) below 1.0

I like Codex for allowing auto_review.policy (basically a prompt to the classifier on what to allow/disallow) to be configured rather than the opaque auto mode in Claude.

What settings have you tried since it "became more opaque"? They've got a lot more settings now.

CC went from sane defaults in late 2025 to feature scope creep early 2026. So more features might be good, but sounds like an ick for me. But I have zero prestige, I might switch back.

Are you familiar with "the tyranny of the marginal user"? They have to add more features right now.

They’ve been hiding their thinking tokens more and more, and lately also which tools are being executed when and in which way. It makes it more difficult to assess what it’s doing and jump in to steer it into a different direction in realtime.

6 minutes, 6 months, $6 million, 6 million tokens?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com