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“Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8” by Zvi


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When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.

Now a lot more people are going crazy for coding agents, as well they should given how much better coding agents keep getting, but also Everybody Knows they are good and is focusing on actually using them. With the slower pace of news here it's no longer clear that the waits associated with doing these updates on their own are worthwhile, so I’m going to fold these updates into the weekly again for now unless there's a new major development.

Table of Contents

  1. Whoops, Sorry.
  2. Huh, Upgrades.
  3. Codex of Ultimate Computer Use.
  4. Rookie Numbers.
  5. I See What You Did There.
  6. Just a Ride.
  7. They Didn’t Want Our Jobs.
  8. Skilling Up.
  9. The Lighter Side.
  10. Whoops, Sorry

    Claude Code suffered in April from three distinct issues that have now been fixed.

    1. Default reasoning was changed from high to medium to deal with latency, but users disliked this and blamed it on the model. It was introduced on March 4 and reverted on April 7.
    2. A bug made it so that [...]
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      Outline:

      (00:38) Whoops, Sorry

      (01:45) Huh, Upgrades

      (04:13) Codex of Ultimate Computer Use

      (08:05) Rookie Numbers

      (09:12) I See What You Did There

      (11:38) Just a Ride

      (11:50) They Didnt Want Our Jobs

      (18:30) Skilling Up

      (22:08) The Lighter Side

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      First published:

      May 8th, 2026

      Source:

      https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BS27ZWW2qwDEq5anx/claude-code-codex-and-agentic-coding-8

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