Comment by jillesvangurp
19 days ago
I've come across only a few of those. I'm not familiar with Antigravity. That's what I mean with poor marketing. I've tried out AI Studio, which is alright but not quite Codex level good as far as I can see.
Honestly this smells a bit like the situation they had a few years ago with a lot of different teams in Google inventing new chat and video call tools. All of which then flopped and got discontinued. Google exporting their own internal chaos. How many coding tools can you have in one company?!
OpenAI and Anthropic seem more focused currently. I mostly focus on OpenAI's codex because I don't want to maintain two subscriptions. Switching tools is a bit disruptive and not something I want to do every few days/weeks.
Wouldn’t it make a lot of sense to have a single subscription that gives access to all coding agents, with the ability to switch between them based on preference or task? Constantly juggling tools and subscriptions is pretty disruptive.
20 euro per month is pretty hard to beat for Chat GPT Plus (which includes Codex). Right now a lot of this stuff in this space is highly experimental and constantly changing. I've been using codex web since before the summer, Codex cli for the last few months and Codex desktop app for the last few days. Before that, I was copy pasting blobs of code from Chat GPT and only looking at single code files.
The whole agentic coding revolution didn't really start moving until Claude Code rolled out almost a year ago now. Anthropic deserves kudos for that. Initially it was limited by small context sizes and wasn't that effective on large code bases. So, I stuck with ChatGPT and OpenAI; mainly because Claude for Desktop was a bit underwhelming and I felt OpenAI had their shit together a bit more in terms of UX, which I think matters at least as much as model quality for being able to effectively use AI. Arguably, since about the summer, Codex and Claude Code are well matched in terms of features/capabilities. Some prefer one or the other or use both. Coded had a reputation of being maybe slightly better with larger code bases. I don't think that is valid anymore as of the last few model releases.
Since about the gpt 5 generation of models released around last summer, I'm able to work on whole git repositories with codex. Our backend is about five years old; about 85K lines of code. Not huge but big enough that there was no way in hell LLMs were able to make sense of it before that. I only did the first big pull requests with codex on this backend in the last two months. This stuff is still very new.
I'm sure that with a lot of tool juggling and experimentation I could have gotten there a few weeks/months earlier But not much more. And I don't actually have time to be constantly fiddling with tools and trying out a lot of stuff. I don't need to be the first to try everything out.