I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won
Jory Pestorious, a former Claude Code devotee, explains why he switched to Codex Desktop. He argues that portability is insurance, not a goal, and that integration beats DIY setups. He dissects hype around tools like Prime Agent and Ponytail, and details his current setup with OMP and Codex, concluding that Codex won by demanding less attention, not by offering more control.
Codex did not win by giving me more control. It won by asking for less of my attention.
- throwup238
Twenty years ago this would have been “I Wanted to Own My VIM config, Then [Insert IDE] Won”.
The perennial question is, have you gotten any actual work done or are you now just configuring Codex Desktop?
> Then the seams became my job.
Has Codex started overusing “seam” too? I thought that was a Claude-ism.
Really the AI generated title image should have given it away. Shame on me I guess.
- steve-atx-7600
Maybe I’m missing something. How is codex desktop more feature rich that Claude desktop? Aren’t they about the same now? I actually found codex desktop cloud mode to be more difficult to use in the codex desktop vs Claude because i have to create a new “environment” per GitHub repo in the same org at work.
- indigodaddy
Did Codex Desktop also help write this article?