three hours without Claude and I've relearned vim, read two man pages, and almost remembered why we used to write comments in code

If anything Claude writes too many comments. Instead of clean code it dumps walls of text describing a given 'if' as a 'user-grained access-gated control-correcting flow-valve'.

You say Claude, I too would prefer not to read reams of comments or an essay everytime I revise the plan in plan mode, but do you know if any other tools are better than it? I've never used Codex, but I remember Claude Web's natural conversational approach being a welcome sight compared to ChatGPT's overly-formatted listicles.

My experience is Codex is much better but less creative. I use its agent through GitHub Copilot or the agent interface from JetBrains. Try the GPT Sol 5.6 on medium, it gives me good results

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Just need to learn how to exit it now.

Just remember simple

    :!pkill -KILL vim

There are always 12-page tutorials to do it: good ol'e search engines should be able to bring one up!

Just ask ChatGPT.

hopefully Claude will be back to assist with that

I took a walk.