It's primarily the simplicity with which I can work on multiple things. Claude code is also very good with using tools and stuff like that in the background so I just use a browser MCP and it does stuff by itself. I hook it up to staging bigquery and it uses test data. I don't need to see all these things. I want to look at a diff, polish it up in my IDE, and then git commit. The intermediate stuff is not that interesting to me.
This suddenly reminded me that I have a Cursor subscription so I'm going to drop it.
But of course if someone says that Cursor's flow suddenly 2x'd in speed or quality, I would switch to it. I do like having the agent tool be model hotpluggable so we're not stuck on someone's model because their agent is better, but in the end CC is good at both things and codex is similar enough that I'm fine with it. But I have little loyalty here.
That makes sense. Personally I have rarely gotten truly satisfactory results with such a hands-off approach, I cannot really stop babysitting it, so facilities to run it in the background or be able to do multiple things at once are rather irrelevant to me.
But I can see how it might make sense for you. It does depend a lot on how mainstream what you are working on is, I have definitely seen it be more than capable enough to leave it do its thing for webdev with standard stacks or conventional backend coding. I tend to switch a lot between that and a bit more exotic stuff, so I need to be able to fluidly navigate the spectrum between fully manual coding and pure vibe coding.
This suddenly reminded me that I have a Cursor subscription so I'm going to drop it.
But of course if someone says that Cursor's flow suddenly 2x'd in speed or quality, I would switch to it. I do like having the agent tool be model hotpluggable so we're not stuck on someone's model because their agent is better, but in the end CC is good at both things and codex is similar enough that I'm fine with it. But I have little loyalty here.