Introduction I've been seeing more developers say that Codex has become easier to use, more cost-effective, or simply a better fit for some workflows than it used to be. This is not a "Claude Code is bad, everyone should switch" article. I still use Claude Code at work, and if cost were less of a factor in my personal setup, I would probably be using both more actively. If you're already comfort
The setup I was building an AI article generator. Four phases: Research — pull live SERP data, extract entities, score competitors Brief — Claude Sonnet writes a structured brief from the SERP Draft — section-by-section drafting in a fixed persona voice Polish — adversarial review pass that flags AI tells End-to-end: 6–8 minutes. Each phase: 60–180 seconds. Multiple LLM calls per phase. Token st
Hello everyone! I wanted to write this article to share my experience with agentic coding without Claude and Codex, I started dabbling with agentic coding a few months ago when Claude had decent limits on the 20$ plan, You prompt the agent: I want e2e tests, and it will study the codebase and implement them. When I've started hitting limits on Claude code, and this is not a secret that they reduc