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Claude Abandons Long Analysis Tasks And Refuses System Setup Unlike Codex

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I no longer use Claude for doing per record analysis because it will either give up declaring it will take too long or just stop abruptly in the middle. Codex will happily work on it for hours until everything gets done. Another use case is system management or setting up new box (for example, copy ssh keys) where I absolutely would not use Claude because it almost always becomes paranoid, becomes extremely stupid and refuses a lot of things. To think about it, I am using Claude less and less these days because it’s hard to find use case where codex is sub-optimal but very easy to find use case where Claude will just refuse.

12:02 AM · May 17, 2026 View on X

@sytelus @fifty_chris per record and auth/perms related things, useful - thank you

Shital ShahShital Shah@sytelus

I no longer use Claude for doing per record analysis because it will either give up declaring it will take too long or just stop abruptly in the middle. Codex will happily work on it for hours until everything gets done. Another use case is system management or setting up new box (for example, copy ssh keys) where I absolutely would not use Claude because it almost always becomes paranoid, becomes extremely stupid and refuses a lot of things. To think about it, I am using Claude less and less these days because it’s hard to find use case where codex is sub-optimal but very easy to find use case where Claude will just refuse.

7:02 AM · May 17, 2026 · 672 Views
7:19 AM · May 17, 2026 · 535 Views

I no longer use Claude for doing per record analysis because it will either give up declaring it will take too long or just stop abruptly in the middle. Codex will happily work on it for hours until everything gets done.

Another use case is system management or setting up new box (for example, copy ssh keys) where I absolutely would not use Claude because it almost always becomes paranoid, becomes extremely stupid and refuses a lot of things.

To think about it, I am using Claude less and less these days because it’s hard to find use case where codex is sub-optimal but very easy to find use case where Claude will just refuse.

Sholto DouglasSholto Douglas@_sholtodouglas

When do you reach for other models instead of Claude? What can we do better? Hit me with all of your frustrations. dms open. If you can give me detail (e.g. specifics/transcipts) - it'll help a lot in finding out exactly what we need to do to improve the next model

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