Andrew Wilkinson(@awilkinson):Sam (@sama), I love Codex. But there's this one really dumb/subtle problem. Claude Code FEELS faster. I think this is primarily because as it does each thing, it immediately slams a text update into the terminal/app, whereas Codex keeps everything contained/compressed into a line that has that little side to side fade effect. It's almost like chain of thought - you were doing it in ChatGPT just not showing it, and when you added it people felt like it was smarter/faster. I think it would be worth adding a more verbose mode / experimenting with revealing more of what Codex is doing so that you viscerally feel it ripping.

2026.08.03 15:13

Sam (@sama), I love Codex. But there's this one really dumb/subtle problem. Claude Code FEELS faster. I think this is primarily because as it does each thing, it immediately slams a text update into the terminal/app, whereas Codex keeps everything contained/compressed into a line that has that little side to side fade effect. It's almost like chain of thought - you were doing it in ChatGPT just not showing it, and when you added it people felt like it was smarter/faster. I think it would be worth adding a more verbose mode / experimenting with revealing more of what Codex is doing so that you viscerally feel it ripping.

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