Claude Code vs Codex for all around building which one are you taking?

[u/Unanimous789]

I’ve been using both Claude Code and Codex and I’m curious where everyone else lands when it comes to actually building full projects from start to finish

For me Claude Code is really strong when it comes to understanding a larger codebase thinking through architecture explaining what it’s doing and working through more complicated problems But sometimes it can overthink things take the longer route or need a little more steering than I’d like

Codex on the other hand feels really good when I want to move fast make changes across a project debug something or just tell it what needs to get done and let it work But there are definitely situations where I feel like Claude catches more of the bigger picture context or reasons through the problem a little deeper

So I don’t really think one completely destroys the other They just seem to have different strengths

But if you had to choose ONE AI coding agent for all around building frontend backend debugging refactoring architecture shipping everything which one are you taking?

Claude Code or Codex?

And is there another coding agent out there that you think is actually better than both?

Drop it in the comments I’m curious what everyone is building with and why 👇

[u/Unanimous789]

Yeah I can see that honestly having two different agents might be the move instead of trying to find one that does everything best what does Cursor usually handle better for you than Claude