Developer rants: Claude Code's TUI is far worse than Codex's app, but he'll switch back anyway
jtaby · x · 2026-09-26
Developer jtaby complained that he really dislikes using Claude Code in a terminal TUI compared to the Codex desktop app. Yet he's switching back to Claude Code anyway because he hates the code produced by Astra (Gemini's coding model) so much — picking the lesser evil. The rant sparked discussion over interaction form vs model code quality in coding agents, with others recommending the customizable IDE "bb" and noting Codex can delegate to Claude via CLI.
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