claude code vs codex cli

curious if any professional devs have substantive opinions here. i am not a professional dev. i'm a hobby coder and PM small dev teams in my day job. opinions at work are fairly split. CC is (i think) objectively the better dev UX and all around tooling. have been hearing a growing sect that agrees 5.2 / 5.2-codex are the better models, however. hard to get actual opinions here between the rapid rate of improvement, and the astroturfing/brand loyalty between oai and anthropic users. for me - again, as a hobby coder - codex cli with 5.2/5.2-codex high seems like the better 'hands-off' option, in that it's often able to work for longer periods of time uninterrupted with more complete final results than CC and opus. it seems a bit more detail-oriented overall, at least out of the box. i still use CC more than codex, and if you get the tooling right + take your time to spec things out properly + work inside a well-documented codebase, i don't notice much of a difference between the two. in larger codebases with less documentation, codex seems to hit higher highs than CC with less config. anyone else feel the same way? feel different? looking for opinions from heavy users of both tools, most people who shit on one or the other seem to really only use one tool, and have an outdated opinion of the other.