Everyone keeps asking the same question. Claude or Codex? Which one should I pick?
It is the wrong question.
You do not have to pick. Three files and one log entry let Claude Code and Codex hand work back and forth on the same project, without overwriting each other.
A few episodes back we did a full Codex walkthrough on its own. This week on the One Shot Show, Wyndo (The AI Maker) and I put it next to Claude. We talked through where they differ, and then did something most comparison videos never do.
We ran a single project through both of them, live, and let them hand the work back and forth.
By the end, the calculator we built had been touched by Claude, then Codex, then Claude again. Neither agent overwrote the other. Neither got confused about what had already been done.
The trick was not a better model. It was a bridge.
Does Codex read CLAUDE.md?
Codex does not read CLAUDE.md directly. Codex reads a separate file, AGENTS.md, at the project root, while Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md. Adding an …
