Developers say Codex has become unusable and are switching to Claude
zealcaiden · x · 2026-10-17
Developer boneGPT complains that OpenAI Codex has degraded badly: "I built the whole cannon with it and now it's just unusable — sometimes they can't even find the GitHub repo, they just start coding random stuff in the site's workflow." zealcaiden responds that Astra works for scientific exploration, Opus for building real software, and Cannon is good enough now: "Just use Claude, it will handle everything from here." A real-world data point on heavy users migrating from Codex to Claude.
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