If you follow the coding-agent race, you've heard the story: Codex surged this year — faster, cheaper, more autonomous, and neck-and-neck with Claude Code on the benchmarks. Plenty of developers reach for it first now. On speed and cost, I get it — until I tried to move one of my own agent skills…

Fun fact: My Claude Code usage reached USD 3,000 in September, 2025. That's because I've been running Claude Code inside a 24/7 agentic loop to power my side project. While I sleep, the loop evaluates, spawns subagents, and keeps moving forward. When I wake up, progress is already made. But the…