Indie Dev: Codex Is Now Demoted to Being Claude's Image-Generation Vendor

yihui_indie · x · 2026-09-29

An indie developer summed up his view of OpenAI's Codex in one line: it now only deserves to serve as an image-generation vendor for Claude — a side tool rather than a primary coding assistant. The quip captures a segment of heavy users' perception of the coding gap between Codex and Claude.

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