Claude Moves Fast. Codex Ships.

I gave two big coding tasks to both Claude and Codex. Claude finished in about one hour. Codex took about eight. That sounds like a clean win for Claude until you look at what came back. The Claude output was fast, confident, and useless. Bad assumptions, broken code, missing integration points, half-followed rules, and a shape that would make the codebase harder to maintain even if I patched it into working order. I threw it away. The Codex output took a full workday. It read the repo. It follo