thoughts: Claude Code friction while Codex is capped
Almost running out of my weekly Codex / GPT token usage, so I switched to Claude for a few hours.
Somehow the experience feels much higher friction.
It likes to spend a long time thinking even for relatively simple tasks. For example: "write this devlog for me." It already had detailed guidance (ProjectSpire Devlogs CLAUDE.md) plus example documents in the same folder.
If it were GPT, it probably would have been done in seconds. Claude spent nearly a minute still "flabbergasting..." until I stopped it and asked what it was doing. Its response was essentially: "I was reading unnecessary documents."
Then there's the terminal behavior.
I wanted it to run some git commands, but it kept doing cd project-root && git ... everywhere. I genuinely do not understand why, because it can already execute commands from within the project context directly.
I explicitly told it: "cd into the project root once and then run git commands directly without repeating cd." Nope. It still kept issuing (cd ... && git ...) commands until I corrected it a second time.
I'm genuinely having a hard time getting used to working with Claude. Curious what other people's experiences have been.