I've also had the exact opposite experience with tone. Claude Code wants to build with me, and Codex wants to go off on its own for a while before returning with opinions.
I've also had the exact opposite experience with tone. Claude Code wants to build with me, and Codex wants to go off on its own for a while before returning with opinions.
Its likely that both are steering towards the middle from their current relative extremes and converging to nearly the same place.
also my experience in using these two models. they are trying to recover from oversteer perhaps.