Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex: Two Official Agents, One Choice You Don't Have to Make

May 7 · 8 min read · For a long time my AI coding workflow was a junk drawer. Aider, Continue, OpenClaw, three different VS Code plugins, an .envrc with API keys for providers I'd forgotten I had. Then in April 2026, Anthropic tightened the rules on third-party clients h...