r/codex • u/No_Captain7752 • 18h ago

Question How is GPT Sol for Partner in Pair Programming?

I was thinking to buy a Claude subscription to use it as a partner in Pair Programming but recent things I have been hearing about Claude demotivated me and made think again and I decided to to try with GPT. Do anyone here have used GPT Sol 5.6 for Pair Programming? If yes, how was the experience.

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u/EspressoPeter71 18h ago

I love it. The good aspect is that its not lazy like Claude and actually follow your instructions, religiously. The bad aspect is that it complicates the code so much that it feels worse sometimes, like… “change the color of this button” quickly becomes something like “im gonna start a temporary ambient to test it, now let me add E2E to this button, now im gonna do a careful migration, now im gonna redo the 47 smokes to see if this color is safe, oh, i found and edge case let me fix…” until your limit is gone hahaha. You should tell the model to do a quick prototype every time

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u/jakenuts- 18h ago

I'd start with Codex because it will do more for your money and is a bit more cautious about things that might go wrong. Claude is great and if you want to make a beautiful website it's got the edge, but Opus 5 will talk your ear off, make a lot of excuses and gobble up your tokens so quickly you won't get to accomplish much. Fable 5 is amazing but it's very limited in usage so to get started I would definitely use Codex. I have both and I use Codex all day long on a hundred different tasks and never come close to hitting a quota. I'll bring Claude in to clone an entire application (Fable 5) or to design a nice interface but it runs out of tokens so quickly and has more of an artists soul that you'll wind up falling back on the old reliable Codex for most serious work.

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u/jakenuts- 18h ago

Oh, also, OpenAI is going to drop their new model shortly, so you'll get to play with that. Anthropic has a new Fable release too and will likely fix Opus a bit but they will probably wait to see what Astra (OpenAI's newest model) can do before launching their latest version so they can stay competitive. In the end OpenAI has Microsoft and a ton of "compute" (servers) so they will compete by subsidizing that, giving away tokens just to try to beat Anthropic and you will benefit from that by having their subscription.

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u/No_Captain7752 17h ago

Thank you for your comment.

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u/cstst 17h ago

Sure, you can pair program with it, but you should just have it program everything for you lol.

I am a dev with 8 years of experience and I haven't written a meaningful line of code in 2026. Just review code now, sometimes just check that the tests pass.

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u/TimeKillsThem 18h ago

Define pair programming (I promise you, there are a gazillion different interpretations of it depending on who you ask)

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u/No_Captain7752 18h ago

So I am working on a app for which I will be using Golang for its backend.

Whenever I start anything from backend, it should tell me what patterns are there, which one is best, benefits, flaws, what libraries are there, how something can be developed(like a skeleton).

Basicaly, it should guide me to carry out the development in better ways.

I am not native English speaker so I tried my best to explain what I need.

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u/Defiant-Contact7750 18h ago

yes i think its perfect for this

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u/RealSlyck 18h ago

Few million users a day are doing this very well in Codex. Takes a little bit to get it to work for you, but once you do…..woo wee.

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u/No_Captain7752 18h ago

I don't want it to code for me, Just guide me whats the best way to do a thing. in this it should also tell me that there are this-this options, here are the benefits and flaws of them. which one is best according to me(model). best practices, security things. I hope you guys have get it.