I agree the homepage is a weak sell, but an independent operator in Europe IS value. If it doesn’t really make a difference otherwise, why not choose a home server that is governed by and supports your home region of Europe? (obviously there are other things that would make a difference, but you gotta start somewhere)

Isn’t it bascially the same thing? You type what you want into the input box and it does what you ask for.

I guess I'm asking if their CLI tool is the same or if it functions different. I've never used anything besides CC so I wouldn't know if it's basically the same thing

Claude code can be configured with custom /slash commands and other details that don't necessarily transfer over to codex. /remote-control in cc is really great for walking away from my computer and continuing from my phone, for instance.

GPT-5.4 was already better than Opus 4.6 on a lot of areas, especially correctness and tricky logic. I’m eager to see if 5.5 is even better.

What is the switching cost besides launching a different program? Don’t you just need to type what you want into the box?

source? There have also been a bunch of people here saying the opposite

With Opus it’s hard to tell what was due to the tokenizer changes. Maybe using more tokens for the same prompt means the model effectively thinks more?

Look up independent tests of the new tokenizer for opus 4.7. I don’t think it was double, more like 140%ish of Opus 4.6.

People subscribed to chatgpt before there was codex. Why wouldnt a Claude subscription stand on its own without Claude Code? In fact it’s probably a smart move for Anthropic to split it out.

Because Claude Code provides me more value than simply a chat agent. Claude Code is the only thing I pay for. I can do chat things with the free tier across all the LLMs.

Their enterprise API customers are literally competing to see who can throw the most money at Anthropic. Anthropic has very little reason to focus on a $20/month user, and with their current momentum (especially since enterprise deals are long-lived) they could remove Claude Code from the Pro plan without any revenue hit. In fact, it may be a huge revenue boost given the strength of the Anthropic brand.

Agreed that it’s 100% marketing. In some ways Anthropic is more of a for-profit corporation than OpenAI which is at least partially owned by a non-profit.