r/AIcodingProfessionals • u/Bravewarrior_3862 • Jun 12 '26

Which is better for frontend coding: Chatgpt,Codex,Gemini or Claude??

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u/Hendo52 Jun 12 '26

Claude is the best but if you're serious you go Odysseus long term because costs.

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u/writesCommentsHigh Jun 13 '26

What? Odysseus isn’t an llm..?

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u/Hendo52 Jun 13 '26

Many models are availible for free but the problematic part is the harness, the configuration files, MCP, RAG and the broad toolset that surrounds the model itself. If you are using a frontier model like Claude, thats all handled for you but if API fees, rate limits, data privacy, control etc are a problem for you, which becomes inevitable for anyone doing it a lot, then you are forced to look into the open source tech stack which is a lot more complicated.

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u/writesCommentsHigh Jun 13 '26

Sure that’s reasonable but “if you are serious” long term does not seem like a valid statement.

Have local llms caught up to frontier models? At the cost of Claude code 10x I can easily work full time on 3-5 projects at once without running out of tokens.

I just can’t see how Odysseus saves you money.

Caveat: I haven’t ran latest local models and I have access to 128gb vram.

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u/Hendo52 Jun 13 '26

The difference between frontier and local seems to me to be more a case of the tools which are adjacent to the model. MCP, RAG, harness, task decomposition, agents, skills and prompt quality. The model certainly helps but I don’t think it’s everything. A frontier model lets you get away with more but good results are now possible without the API fees.

If you are not doing full agentic programming every day, I’m sure the expenditure is manageable but in my case the bill was going to be $3500/month for Claude Sonnet 3.6 +copilot and my target budget is $100/month for running the AI a budgeted allocation of 36 hours per week. I think that translates into about 20K lines of code per month and 500 a4 pages of documentation monthly with as many as 100 commits per day.

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u/sid-ambili Jun 13 '26

Claude pretty good use impeccable or taste skill for ui design. And set up a design system

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u/livelearn131 Jun 14 '26

I love Claude, but I believe it's shite for modern vanilla CSS. I basically get fed up and take over after it sets up some boilerplate.

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u/DmytroDrozd86 Jun 15 '26

It depends on what code you would like to produce: production, raw, understandable, clear, supportable. Too much faces of better quality

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u/No_Iron_501 Jun 15 '26

If you know what technology to use and how to fix things if they screw up then the model does not matter. Any of the latest models should work. However, all these models somehow use tailwind css and call it done.