Claude Code, Codex, Cursor: which one are you actually using day to day?
Not which model benchmarks best.
Which one is actually open on your machine right now? And what did it replace?
One thing I noticed this week: almost everyone on our team has independently converged on Claude.
Nobody coordinated it. It happened one person at a time.
Some of us are technical. Most aren't. We still ended up in the same place.
I actually think we found the best workflow.
The only thing I can't tell is whether we arrived there independently...
...or whether we all read the same corner of the internet and naturally converged on the same tools.
Curious what everyone else is actually using:
• What's open on your machine today?
• What did it replace?
• Where do you still not trust it?
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claude exclusively. chatgtp free tier is too low credits to be useful. Gemini for personal stuff as it has no project/business knowledge. claude still fails with stupid things such as uploading a file to Google Drive, renaming new versions of files with different filenames.
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@andreas_jablonka Claude is fantastic, except when they launch an update and all my projects get messed up.
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Yeah, I am a Claude evangelist now lol
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@ben_kahan Yes, I know you are!
Claude Code, Antigravity 2.0, and Codex are all always open on my machine. I use Claude Code intensively for coding and Codex for automation tasks. Antigravity is used mainly to interact with Google products given the deep integration.
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@nzouat What pushed you toward Codex on the automation side? Wondering if it is reliability on long unattended runs or something else.
@lucasjpols Yes, in my opinion, Codex is exceptionally adept at autonomously executing tasks with minimal human intervention. Additionally, Codex comprehends the assignment more effectively than Claude Code, resulting in a more flawless and seamless execution, with fewer errors. Once I provide it with instructions, I don’t have to constantly repeat myself when asked to perform similar tasks.
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lol - we did all merge at our own pace, didn't we? I think Claude wins because of how easy it made it to integrate with all of our tools - it became an essential part of our daily workflow.
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@tmaleh_ Looking for an early credit reset lmao
I’m also mostly using Claude Code day to day. It replaced a lot of the manual searching and back-and-forth debugging I used to do myself.
Where I still don’t fully trust it is making bigger architectural decisions or changes across a large codebase without reviewing everything myself. It’s great at speeding up execution, but I still want to be the one making the important tradeoffs.
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@stephanie_t0317 Claude cowork is life changing.
I've consistently used Codex to create frontend developments for web applications. To be honest, I would prefer using Claude Code because of their prettier frontend designs, but I'm not interested in paying for another AI tool and Codex does the job.
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@tarqiya_forgah Fair!
Initially, I switched over to Claude because of its UI/UX design, and I like the times new Roman. I stayed a customer because of how much better it was though.
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@thomas_digaetano Claude cowork all day!
I mostly use ChatGPT for general purpose, recent news, and ask basic questions to get informed. However, Claude has a better writing style, coding performance, and most businesses use it because it integrates with their workflow. At the end of the day, I use ChatGPT because it's free and Claude's free messages gets ended quickly lol.
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@reda_roqai_chaoui You need to try Claude Cowork!
claude code, basically all day. what it replaced was the constant tab-switch to docs/stack overflow mid-flow, that's mostly gone now. still don't trust it on anything that touches a real database migration, i want eyes on every line before that runs
claude code, replaced cursor for me about two months ago. still don't trust it on anything that touches money or auth logic, i read every line of those diffs twice. everything else i just skim now, which honestly took longer to get comfortable with than switching tools did.
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@sabber_ahamed Migrations and auth seem to be everyone's two red lines, haha.