It really is, for complex tasks. Claude excels at low-mid complexity (CRUD apps,...

ttul · 2026-04-08T03:52:42 1775620362

I find that more experienced devs are more likely to prefer Codex… anecdotal but… it’s a thing.

xvector · 2026-04-08T04:26:24 1775622384

This is because no one bothers to set thinking to high, as it now defaults to medium in CC.

Once you set thinking to high it works just as well as 5.4 even for pretty complex tasks

jeswin · 2026-04-08T05:20:13 1775625613

I have always used Claude at max thinking levels since it launched. It has never been up to the task. For clarity, the task being this: https://github.com/tsoniclang/tsonic

Meanwhile, there are half a dozen other projects (business apps, web apps etc) where it works well.