Why hackers moved from Claude to Codex
4 hackers described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I've mostly switched from Claude to Codex because I find the harness so buggy and annoying that I avoid it when I can.”overgard, 2026-10-14original comment ↗
“I switched from Claude to Codex because Claude just doesn't do what you actually tell it to half the time.”coderenegade, 2026-09-12original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Claude to Codex because I was blowing through my Claude limits.”jeffreyrogers, 2026-08-23original comment ↗
“I have also switched from claude to codex a few weeks ago.”toenail, 2026-04-12original comment ↗
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Claude vs Codex
| Claude | Codex | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 24 | 18 |
| Hackers who criticize | 25 | 4 |
| Moved away from it | 13 | 1 |
| Moved to it | 11 | 12 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Claude
“But yet they can afford to pay Anthropic $200/mo forever?”lrvick, 2026-10-30original comment ↗
“at the end both models swore that the code is perfect and well designed and nothing is lacking.”username_my1, 2026-09-28original comment ↗
“Claude always spoke to me with a suspicious side eye as if I was trying to do something naughty.”declan_roberts, 2026-09-22original comment ↗
“after I cancelled my Claude subscription because it found tge responses verbose, condescending.”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“Anthropic has really lost the plot even in user-facing output.”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
Praise for Codex
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I moved from Claude Code to Codex for ROI and code quality reasons”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“Current experience of just leaving a Codex Agent chug until a stable solution is completed is still mind blowing to me.”5555watch, 2026-08-19original comment ↗
“I still haven't moved from Codex GPT5.5.”ilitirit, 2026-08-14original comment ↗
“I just switched from Llama.cpp to Llama swap with the help of codex. It was great.”monksy, 2026-06-12original comment ↗