Neil Henning6d ago
I wrote up a thing about the AI coding agents https://www.neilhenning.dev/posts/five-stages-grief/
Five Stages of Grief With the Rise of AI

I tried copilot in VS Code sometime in 2025 and was thoroughly disappointed with its ability. It felt like a really bad auto-complete at best, making plenty of mistakes and generally being utterly irritating to actually use with its need to constantly pop in as I was typing with long form coding suggestions that were often wrong. I was already predisposed to being negative about AI due to the usual mix of reasons and wrote off all the AI coding tools as useless.

Neil Henning
Show threadSebastian Schöner

@neilhenning I can relate very much. Thanks for writing this! Collective therapy is the only way to make sense of this.

Also, try Codex instead of Claude some day. And try Pi with Codex. There's a lot to see out there.

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Show threadNeil Henning6d ago

@sschoener I've yet to hear a good thing about Codex - only Claude! Whats good about it?!

What are you doing with Pi? That was next on my list!

Show threadSebastian Schöner6d ago

@neilhenning In my experience Codex is faster than Claude and follows directions more directly. Claude is more the creative type. "Codex is Claude but for programming", as a friend used to say.

Pi -- it's nice that it is such a malleable environment. You can just Pi to write an extension for itself to implement whatever behavior you'd like your coding harness to have, and BAM, it exists.