This article does a good job of comparing functionality between codex and claude, but I see very little discussion here or elsewhere about the actual UX of the CLI tools. Codex is absolute garbage when it comes to the look, feel, and overall polish of the CLI experience (no syntax highlighting, no proper diff displays, no vim mode, poor visual differentiation of user vs agent messages, etc). Claude is a tiny bit better. However, both fall flat on their face compared to some open source agentic TUIs like Opencode, Crush, etc.
I was just focusing on a few specific things in the Claude Code 2 release notes, namely they added two features /rewind and /usage, and I was disappointed in both. It's also probably a little too long as is. And yeah I've heard a lot of people complain about the Codex CLI experience though in a previous post I mentioned many Redditors like this repo to improve it:
qafy|5 months ago
waprin|5 months ago
https://github.com/just-every/code
I haven't tried Crush nor even heard of Opencode so I'll have to check them out, thanks for the feedback.