Comment by CountSessine
13 hours ago
It’s actually kind of startling just how bad, as measured by open issues, Codex is. There’s a huge issue with conversation locking that nullifies one of Codex’s key advantages (GUI<->CLI interoperability) and last night I learned that conversations can get into a permanently-locked state where even shutting down every Codex process won’t unlock a conversation.
You add to that all of the weird confusion over Chat/Work/Cloud Work/Work Local modes and marooned conversations, broken connectors (will OpenTable ever work? Will the Chrome connector ever be reliable on restart?) questionable UI decisions, and I start to worry a whole lot less about being replaced by AI.
It’s not even that Astra is bad at coding - it’s magnificent at coding. But it’s like it’s pure Id - all energy and first order logic but no taste or reason or preference. I guess that’s what we’re supposed to be doing now.
Just use opus 5.5 for any code that needs to actually be merged.
And yet Astra is as good if not much better coding than opus 5.5, both in the code generated and its guardrails. In fact in the last 3 weeks at work I’ve had opus 5.5 histrionically freak out about examining security issues with our app multiple times. What good is that?
It’s just that Codex, the harness, is hot garbage. I’m going to invest some time in using Astra with OpenCode to see if I can live with that but going back to Anthropic is very low on my preference list.