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Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?

A Hacker News user asked which AI coding tools developers use, with commenters reporting they use Claude Code or Codex depending on employer access and preferences, noting trade-offs in laziness, guidance needs, and design intuition.

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Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else? 3 points by JohnDSDev

32 minutes ago

| hide | past | favorite | 2 comments Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or a different vibe coding/agentic engineering tool for most of your work? Why?

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[–] At work we only have access to claude / kiro. I only use it via cli since I find this to be the most flexible setup as claude can find stuff anywhere, read, write and run programs etc. reply blinkbat

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[–] claude - org pays for it. org used to pay for both, and i preferred codex back then (~3mo ago). i find claude to be significantly lazier or require significantly more guidance. it does, however, have better design and ui/ux intuition. reply

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