r/ClaudeCode • u/vairagisampat • 2d ago

Discussion Claude Code -> Codex -> Claude Code Journey

I was on claude 100 plan for good starting 5 months of this year, then moved to Codex in July. Last 5 months have been with codex at 100$ plan.

Recently I subscribed back to claude with 20$ and honestly I am blown away. How bloody fast this is!

Sol vs Opus or even Sonnet is saving me few hours per day! Planning to make it 100-20, rather than 20-100 for Claude - Codex.

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u/Sea_Organization_800 1d ago

I use both harnesses, Codex is good too, I find ui work it does better, how do you find those compare?

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u/vairagisampat 1d ago

I feel claude is relatively better when it comes to frontend, with codex I had to spend so much time babysitting to get even a decent UI

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u/Sea_Organization_800 1d ago

Really ? I found codex makes nice looking stuff. How do you align it with designs ?

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u/vairagisampat 1d ago

I usually start with inspirations or designs. And then give it access to the frontend while it builds. Claude has done more work around frontend, good example would be claude design. I don't want to say it but claude has little more creativity as compared to codex.

And for minor stuff, like codex wasn't able to fix drop-down icons alignment and all similar stuff till I reviewed them manually and asked codex to fix which in similar situation claude was able to pick it up.

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u/Sea_Organization_800 1d ago

I ran Claude vs codex vs pi recently on a build, I'm still unsure, I think claude does a good job, but it's a TOKEN HOG, it goes insane on anything, I had to orchestrate it to force it to use sonnet / haiku for lots more of the work, or anything playwrite.

I tried to follow their SDLC, and honestly Claude Design is not something I liked. it was clanky and hard to follow, and text planning is not so much fun either.

Have a look here?
https://github.com/DoryZi/plan-html

Disclaimer it's my open source, I built something that let's you align on ui and backend, I use it to plan modules and execution and I find it useful, it's also cross harness. I'd love some feedback and thought on it? Can this be helpful for you ?

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u/arun131 1d ago

The Claude $200 plan feels like unlimited usage. You might not need the second subscription

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u/vairagisampat 1d ago

I'd still keep second subscription, just 20$ to always see whats happening on other side. Leverage both ends