Comment by ewoodrich
1 day ago
OpenCode also has an extremely fast and reliable UI compared to the other CLIs. I’ve been using Codex more lately since I’m cancelling my Claude Pro plan and it’s solid but haven’t spent nearly as much time compared to Claude Code or Gemini CLI yet.
But tbh OpenAI openly supporting OpenCode is the bigger draw for me on the plan but do want to spend more time with native Codex as a base of comparison against OpenCode when using the same model.
I’m just happy to have so many competitive options, for now at least.
Seconded. I find codex lacks only two things:
- hooks (this is a big one)
- better UI to show me what changes are going to be made.
the second one makes a huge diff and it's the main reason I stopped using opencode (lots of other reasons too). in CC, I am shown a nice diff that I can approve/reject. in codex, the AI makes lots of changes but doesn't pin point what changes it's doing or going to make.
Yeah it's really weird with automatically making changes. I read in it's chain of thought that it's going to request approval for something from the user, the next message was approval granted doing it. Very weird...
I think Codex is probably marginally stronger than Opus in my testing.
But it's much much worse at writing issues than Claude models.
You can't see diffs in git?
How you using hooks?
That’s a separate tool though. You don’t want to have to open another terminal to git diff every 30 seconds and then give feedback. Much better UX when it’s inline.
My main hooks are desktop notifications when Claude requires input or finishes a task. So I can go do other things while it churns and know immediately when it needs me.