One of many reasons I left Apple. My manager's manager would say stuff like this all the time, and then when I actually made my PR he would basically have me redesign stuff from scratch. It made me dread working on projects because I knew that no matter what I did I would be forced to rewrite it from scratch anyway.
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Do you mean codex or Claude code standalone without cursor? Codex is OpenAI’s coding tool competing with Claude.
Based on my limited experimentation Claude code is better. I haven’t used any of these coding agents with an ide only from the cli.