23 Days Without Claude Code: Dev Says Codex Works Better With OSS, Kimi K3 Unbeaten at Coding
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-15
An AI practitioner reports not having opened Claude Code in 23 days, saying he now prefers Codex, which he finds works notably better with open-source models. Among OSS models, he argues Kimi K3 remains unbeatable at coding — a notable individual shift in the coding-tool stack conversation.
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