Hand Claude Code a website and an ad budget to run on its own
A web developer gave Claude Code a baseline site, ad accounts with a budget, and scraping tools, and lets it make marketing decisions every four hours.
Port your Claude Code skills to Codex and compare
A Rails developer used Codex more than Claude Code for a week and had Codex convert his Claude skills.
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- BeginnerOur rating
- Time to build
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- Engagement
- 248 HN points281 comments · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
Lucian Ghinda pointed Codex at his Claude skills folder to convert them, then worked in both.
How it went
He found Codex left fewer comments in Ruby code and favored many small focused sessions.
Worth knowing
Personal impressions after one week.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- Codex
- Claude Code
Steps
- Open the repo in your coding agent and describe the goal and constraints.
- Ask for a plan first, then let it implement in small, reviewable steps.
- Run the tests or the app after each step and feed errors back.
- Review the diff before merging.
Starter prompt
Read every skill in ~/.claude/skills and convert each one to the Codex format, keeping the same behavior.Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393051 ↗ (opens in new tab) Aug 21, 2026 · 248 points, 281 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
- Web: allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-cl ↗ (opens in new tab) Aug 21, 2026
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