Codex is smarter than Claude Code
After seriously using Codex for a few days, it definitely seems smarter than Claude Code. But Codex is just awful at design. I have tried to make good designs using Codex multiple times, and it just doesn't work. In fact, I tried creating a few new pages for my Vemgram project that I am mainly working on these days, and even though the site has a design system set up, Codex is still unable to create designs that match the aesthetics of the rest of the website.
I am very much disappointed by that.
For this reason, nowadays, I have started using OpenCode whenever I need to design something. I love the newly launched models like Kimi K2.5, Qwen 3.6 Plus, and GLM-5.1 models inside OpenCode. These open-source models are almost as good as Opus 4.6/4.7 when it comes to design.
Apart from this, I am hearing rumors that OpenAI is about to launch GPT-5.5 and also that it's great at design. If that's the case, I won't regret subscribing to Codex Pro at all.
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