Hayden Field

Hey, great to be here.

Never a lot going on, you know, every week is just a snooze.

Everyone I talk to loves Claude Code unequivocally.

But Codex, it's starting to grow on people.

It seems like, you know, they've seen a big usership spike.

You know, they're really pulling out all the stops on marketing to try to

get it into new hands.

They're really working hard.

So, you know, it's seeing an uptick.

It's just not the same.

And I mean, of course, it wouldn't be yet.

We'll have to see in a few months.

But something I have seen that's interesting is that like any...

You know, pop star who's on top for too long, Taylor Swift or whoever, people will try to bring you down when you're on the top for too long.

And Claude Code is experiencing that right now.

You know, we're seeing a lot of shade thrown at it from like, you know, there are a couple like anecdotal posts on X that have gone viral lately like this.

You know, someone saying, oh, they banned me because of this or, oh, they banned my whole startup because of X, Y and Z. And then, you know, the Anthropic team will reach out and say, oh, hey, let's like try to fix this.

But by then the damage is kind of already done in terms of public PR.

So I've just been seeing a couple of like loose, you know, viral social media posts going around about how Cloud Code did this wrong and did this wrong.

But that only happens when you're at the top because people feel they don't have another choice.