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CodexSoftware

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Who uses, recommends or left Codex, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Peter Steinberger
Austrian software developer, founder of PSPDFKit and creator of the OpenClaw agent; writes about AI coding agents at steipete.me.
liked

Codex is more like the introverted engineer that chugs along and just gets stuff done. It reads much more files before starting work so even small prompts usually do exactly what I want.

Explaining what he prefers about Codex over Claude Code.

2025-10-14·steipete.me ↗

Federico Viticci
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009; co-host of AppStories.
recommended

I believe that a Mac mini with Codex running on it is the best bang for your buck if you’re building an always-on agentic setup based on a frontier model that can do just about anything you throw at it.

An essay on running an always-on agentic coding setup, and where the iPad falls short of the Mac for it.

2026-06-30·macstories.net ↗

Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette and co-creator of the Django web framework; writes about LLMs and data tools at simonwillison.net.
uses

I generated the concept image using ChatGPT Images 2.5, then pasted the image into Codex and told Astra to turn that into a Blender file

2026-09-10·x.com ↗

Ben Thompson
Founder and author of Stratechery, a subscription newsletter and podcast network analysing the business and strategy of technology.
uses

So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate

A post on running two AI coding agents side by side.

2026-07-25·x.com ↗

Sebastian Raschka
AI research engineer working on LLMs; author of the Ahead of AI newsletter and of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
uses

I have to admit that I still primarily alternate between Codex and Claude Code as my daily drivers, for now

A walkthrough of running coding agents against local open-weight models; he names the models and tools he uses.

2026-06-27·magazine.sebastianraschka.com ↗

Peter Steinberger
Austrian software developer, founder of PSPDFKit and creator of the OpenClaw agent; writes about AI coding agents at steipete.me.
uses

So pretty much everything runs on high. GPT 5.2 and codex are close enough that changing models makes no sense, so I just use that.

A post on how his day-to-day building changed once agents, not typing, became the bottleneck; this is the model he settles on.

2025-12-28·steipete.me ↗

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