Xeophon ✓ @xeophon · 10h
This would also explain why experienced devs like to use GPT over Claude. GPT is tool-shaped, Claude is friend-shaped. GPT is obedient and will follow your detailed specs, while Claude allows for vagueness
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Peter Steinberger ✓ @steipete · 17h
Did some statistics. My productivity ~doubled with moving from Claude Code to codex. Took me a bit to figure out at first but then 💥
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August (4,376 commits)
- sweetistics (3,612) – X/Twitter analytics app starts!
- poltergeist (245) – Test automation
- Tachikoma (208) – New project
- vibetunnel (110), steipete.me (105)
September (3,056 commits)
- sweetistics (2,950) – Main focus
- inngest (36), bslog (34)
October (7,371 commits)
- sweetistics (7,341) – Peak intensity!
- tmuxwatch (16)
November (7,189 commits)
- sweetistics (2,892) – Continued
- oracle (1,342) – AI bundling tool
- mcporter (491), clawdbot (493) – MCP/Discord tools
- codexbar (388) – Menu bar app
- Trimmy (254), Tachikoma (236)
- wingman (187), poltergeist (137), Peekaboo (135)
- tmuxwatch (111), RepoBar (90), markdansi (70)
December (7,667 commits)
- clawdbot (2,160) – Discord bot heavy dev
- sweetistics (1,421)
- summarize (928) – Summarization tool
- codexbar (663)
- RepoBar (556) – Menu bar app
- Peekaboo (311), oracle (246), gogcli (149)
- vibetunnel (117), bird (107), homebrew-tap (103)
- CLI explosion: sonoscli, brabble, imsg, gifgrep, markd... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet arguing Claude Code vs. Codex/GPT preference reflects a "tool-shaped vs. friend-shaped" character distinction — GPT as obedient spec-follower, Claude as tolerant of vagueness — quoting developer Peter Steinberger's commit-count statistics claiming productivity doubled after switching from Claude Code to Codex. Relevant to Nathan's model-individuation and Claude-character threads, and to the practical "coworker vs. autocomplete" framing already in project memory (cf. Opus 4.7 "smart coworker" note) — this is an outside data point suggesting some developers get more raw throughput from Codex's obedience than from Claude's collaborative style.
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