Adam Bertram

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As soon as I think we’ve seen the peak of what we can slap an AI label on, I see this. I totally need AI in my dryer.

I'm starting to assign a personality to my Codex app. I asked it/him? to create himself a Slack profile photo and set it and this is what he came up with. Introducing, Cody, my assistant!

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It is the end of an era. I only thought it was fitting that Codex kill it's competitor.

After using Claude Code as my daily driver for nearly a full year, I’ve switched to the Codex app. Partly because GPT-5.5 is phenomenal, partly because of the Codex app, and mostly because of usage limits. You can make your dollar go so much farther with Codex.

Me: Claude Code, make me a sandwich. Claude: You're right to want one. Bologna feels right because... training data. Done. Me: Codex, make me a sandwich. Codex: First, let's audit the cupboard, compare breads, inspect fillings, define requirements, and draft a sandwich plan.

@TatataToddC Hmm..I'm using the Pro plan. Within 15 minutes seems like you may be using context you're not aware of somehow.

@adbertram I don't have the same experience at all. I'm hitting my limits in Codex within 15 minutes if I use GPT 5.5. I am using the Team plan

@logicus I actually didn't know about the 2x promo. No wonder I'm never hitting my limit! But really, for only $100/month I'm happy to pay for two subscriptions if it ends.

@adbertram it’s at 2x until may. that’s part of the reason the $ goes further. we need to band together to get 2x instituted permanently.

@sri9s Yep. Since Codex is slower, it tends to feel to me more like a job engine rather than a real-time assistant. Claude used to feel too frantic and as such I'd go all ADHD in. Codex seems to force me to be more thoughtful.

@adbertram interesting switch! have you noticed any major differences in the workflow?

@astnkennedy I’ve found creative work like coding less satisfying. I’m getting TONS more done but I like solving technical problems with code. I feel more like a product manager now and don’t get as much satisfaction but I can’t seem to escape the lure of getting more shit done faster!

I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain. Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me. In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently. None of us feel as sharp as we used to. I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot. P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless

Codex is slower than every tool I’ve used, but I’ve found the time I spend waiting on a task forces me to slow down my ADHD brain and actually think about my requirements more. I see it thinking which typically triggers some random req I had in my mind but didn’t mention it.

If an AI agent can delete your entire production database and you cannot recover it, you’ve got bigger problems than rogue AI agents. #PocketOS

@a_protsyuk I don’t know. I’ve built a 200,000 line web app this past year and Codex seems to be comparable or better. Hard to judge for sure though.

@adbertram Usage limits killed me too, but I'd push back slightly on "go so far farther" - for production codebases with complex context, Claude still wins on coherence even if the cost math doesn't.

@nicko_schofield Wow. Too many things. I use it for interacting with everything from email, coding, slack workflows, CRM stuff, YouTube transcripts, dozens of things.

@adbertram What did you build in that year you used it as you daily driver?

@sri9s Yes. Since codex is slower, I tend to think more ahead of time instead of adhoc requests. Codex feels more like a job execution engine.

@felangelov See the trick is you DONT review the code.

As an engineer, I’d much rather write every line of code myself than review every line of code generated by an LLM

I've been using the Codex CLI for about a year and never really looked at the app. Started using the app today and damn, I'm pressed. Much easier to navigate with a nice interface.

@awakecoding Of course. I'm biased, being an uncultured American. 😉

@adbertram More like natural language interfaces, which isn't strictly English 😉 One advantage of LLMs is you can prompt in the language of your choosing

Will we all eventually just have English-language interfaces? I use Claude Code/Codex daily and rarely leave. Need a service it doesn't know? Make a CLI + skill. Why context-switch when you can ingest every service in one spot? Even visually: "Claude, render this visually.