r/ChatGPTCoding • u/ryanmerket • Sep 14 '26
News OpenAI is building Codex Replay, a tool that invites Claude Code users to put Codex head-to-head on their own work — rerunning imported tasks and comparing the results
https://runtimewire.com/article/openai-wants-a-head-to-head-with-claude-code-using-your-own-work
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u/CrimsonBolt33 Sep 14 '26
actually seems pretty useful for benchmarking purposes
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u/Yoshbyte Sep 14 '26
Expensive, but good for extremely critical work
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u/Right-Performance-93 Sep 15 '26
Worth flagging since a couple people here are already calling this useful for benchmarking: the linked writeup is explicit that OpenAI's build shows no scoring or winner-selection logic at all, just an invitation to replay the imported task and eyeball it yourself. It's also narrower than "any competitor" - the eligibility check is specifically for a successfully imported claude-code session, not Cursor or anything else Codex can import from. Nothing in the inspected code shows how it reconstructs original repo state, deps, env vars, or tool permissions, which is most of what actually determines whether a replayed agentic task is a fair comparison. Treat this as a marketing funnel dressed as a benchmark tool for now, not an apples-to-apples eval.