AI Coding Showdown: GPT-5.6 Excels at Maintenance, Claude at Zero-Shot Generation

Practical tests reveal GPT-5.6 (Codex) is better at maintaining existing codebases, while Claude excels at generating code from scratch. AI coding efficiency surges up to 100x for independent tasks but sees limited gains in large existing codebases.

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