virtuallymundo · 11 hours ago
Hey, so i'm primarily looking to test out app concepts, seeing how the ui design could look at front-end. Play around with features and ux type of mechanisms.
What's exactly the main differences or similarities or pros\cons with each of these 2 options 'just 'having fun' 'testing code' 'using the app locally by myself without shipping it'
3 comments
theperfectsol · 11 hours ago
For someone with a non-technical background who wants to have fun and ship MVPs quickly:
Codex if your priority is fast iteration, building from scratch, and staying in a conversational workflow.
Claude Code if you expect to spend a lot of time improving, extending, or maintaining larger projects.
If you eventually build products with thousands of lines of code, you'll likely find value in using both depending on the task.
virtuallymundo · 5 hours ago
cool, I read up on it a bit, seems cc is more so for working on well thought-out projects. would codex be able to ship apps to be used by my friends? and what about cursor having the option to switch btwn all of the ai llm's?
atmosx · 11 hours ago
None that should matter to you. Maybe you should start with something cheaper instead of SOTA e.g. Deepseek, Mistral, etc. They're not as good but not as bad as some say either. These cheaper LLMs will allow you to experiment much more until you get some sort of workflow on using LLMs and the switch to the expensive ones.
virtuallymundo · 4 hours ago
thanks Mistral's multiple products sections actually look good, lot can be done there (first time hearing of it given all the media given to american ai companies), any more like this? I try to stay away from chinese models, don't really know why but yeah
leros · 42 minutes ago
If you're non-technical and just wanting to play around with UI, I highly suggest you explore Claude Design. It's programming under the hood to make prototypes, but the coding is 100% hidden away from you. It can help you explore design ideas pretty quickly.