Comment by true_religion

I recently discovered Claude, and it does much better than Codex or Gemini for python code.

Gemini seems to lean to making everything a script, disconnected from the larger vision. Sure, it uses our existing libraries, but the files it writes and functions it makes can’t be integrated back in.

Codex is fast. Very fast. Which makes it great for a conversational UI, and answering questions about the codebasw or proposing alternatives but when it writes code it’s too clever. The code is valid but not pythonic. Like the invention of one line functions just to optimize a situation that had could be parameterized in three places.

Claude on the other hand makes code that is simple to understand and has enough architecture that you can lift it out and use as is without too much rewriting.