According to multiple developer accounts on Hacker News and personal blogs, OpenAI's Codex is requiring 3 times higher token usage than Claude for the same coding tasks, with one user spending $150 in credits to fix a single production database bug. Developers are questioning Codex's value proposition given the increased token consumption and associated costs. The reports indicate efficiency regression compared to competing models.
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- Press[Read article](https://annanay.dev/fixing-db-with-codex/)
- Social[HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978163)
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