Did Claude Code Just Kill ChatGPT Codex?
Let's learn how to use Claude Code📅 2025-10-21
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[00:00] Clawed Code on the web just got released. First major question is that is this any better than Codeex or Cursor AI? In addition, I'll show you how to set this up and make sure you get the most value out of it. So, if that all sounds good, make sure to leave a like right off the bat and let's jump in. Welcome back, y'all. In this video, we're going to be checking out Cloud Code. If you want to get updates like this as fast as possible, make sure to check me out on X. Already did a whole post on it, but I'm interested to see this. Essentially, TLDDR, what's the use case of this Corbin? You can code anywhere. Idea being that you don't necessarily have to have the code in your IDE or your local computer. You
[00:30] could in theory just connect to the internet, put in a little request, and then it's going to use cloud-based services in order to push the relevant code changes, which is cool. But obviously, if anyone accesses your Claude account, and they have access to your repo, then your code's cooked. But let's check it out. So, like any of these AI coding platforms, we're going to connect with GitHub. I'll make sure to also leave a 40-minute guide of everything you need to know about GitHub in the description down below. As obviously with all these little AI coding bot things, you're going to need to know how to use GitHub. It's a fundamental skill you got to have in
[01:01] this new age. In the vibe coding age, authorized claude. So, first it's going to prompt us with the level of security. I'm going to go with trusted network access. This is going to allow us to download specific packages in order to run applications. Although if you're working with a real software's codes repository, I would encourage you to either choose custom access or no network access as you are putting your code at risk in theory by giving it the ability to access the network. But in reality, it might not be that deep in your situation. I'm just saying from experience, specifically when working
[01:31] with real company code, there is usually VPNs involved. Usually, you can only access that code through a specific network. But if none of that really matters to you, then don't worry, just go recommended. trusted network access. Next, we're going to select our repository. So, we got a bunch of different options here. And in the short term, it seems like it will only have access to public repositories that are currently associated with your account. So, things like this public repo where I built out an entire cloud skill, it has direct access to, but I want to give access to specific private repos. So, I'm going to do install GitHub app. Now, when installing it this way, now we have
[02:01] the ability to granularize by the type of repository or do all. For now, I'll do all install and authorize. So, what it does is when I do that, it takes me back to the settings page, but let me show you how to revoke access if needed. So, going back over GitHub here, let's just say you've used it and you're like, Corbin, I absolutely hate cloud code. Then all you need to do is come up here to your settings. Also, make sure to throw me a follow resource code every single week. Just download my code #freecode Corbin. Go to your settings here, scroll down to where it says applications, and you can see all the relevant applications that are currently
[02:32] integrated into my GitHub portfolio. Hit configure. And then right here is simply where we can change its specific access or alternatively get out of my repo cloud and uninstall it or suspend it. Let's check it out though. We are going to use test app here. Uh test app simply is a repository that is a React app. Literally just did one command of just install a React front end and ended up with this. And to be honest with you, I don't even know why this is private. So let me actually make this public real quick. So I guess you'll learn something real quick in GitHub. to make a repository public. Go to settings,
[03:02] scroll all the way down, change visibility, change to public. I want to make it public. And the reason I made it public is you can simply come to my profile here, description down below, steal my code, find the repository that says test app. You can download it yourself and then do these little tests that I'm about to show you. So once I have it selected, here we have the environment. The environment is specifically where we set high-risk variables. This right here is when your application leverages different secret variables or high-risisk variables like API keys. For example, OpenAI's API key. Maybe you have like a hybrid app that uses Anthropic and OpenAI. You would
[03:33] simply put the API key here. If in your relevant code directory, you reference it in your EMV, which I know I don't have one here, but it's a test app, but you know, or not. EMV.v, you know, if you have any type of high-risk variables there, you will simply put there. If that only makes sense, check out my courses here, and I'll show you how to build out a software from scratch. And when I say courses, not like there's a payw wall. YouTube has this new feature. If you go to my profile and there's like a tab called courses now, all of it's free and it's lesson by lesson. I know courses has like a really bad negative stigma
[04:04] around it. So let's just call them learn AI with me AI fun. So let's show off one of its features here such as parallel task. So I'll go and show this in the test app here. I'm going to first request dark UI. Second, I'm going to request this counter go up by two and down by two every time I press this button. So boom. And then I'll be like, okay, this is going off. make UI dark. Boom. Again, so what this is essentially doing is it allows for parallel task. And then what each task will do is try to create its own PR. Obviously, we can
[04:36] enable notifications as well. So if you want to just be scrolling through X or check me out on X, you can enable this. So I'll enable it. Essentially, what's going on here is we are creating two separate sandbox environments. What I mean by sandbox environment is it's installing all the relevant dependencies required to run your application. And when I say dependencies, I'm referring to your package.json here. Everything that's required to actually run and render your application, it's creating a little bubble for it to run it in just for safety reasons and so that it doesn't get a little crazy and it can run this in a cloud environment. So once
[05:09] this is going, we have two separate parallel tasks going. Obviously, I wouldn't set this up so that when you use this, these parallel tasks are counterintuitive. And what I mean by that is, for example, this task was create dark UI and then we put another task that says create light UI. You might as well pair that up into one type of task. So your prompt is more meaty up here rather than just two separate. So once a task is complete here, you can notice it as create PR. So I'm click that. And because it has access to a specific repository here, I can simply
[05:39] say create pull request. I know some of you are like Corbin, what about your comparison with codeex and cursor? I'm going to get there. I'm going to get there. Let me just show you the fundamentals. We get a nice little description here. modify counter button increase decrease by two. Nice create pull request. No conflicts and I can merge it for merge. I'm going delete the branch and then fundamentally we just got our first commit ever done with cloud code and merged into our main little app here. Obviously to pull this into our local code I'll simply do get most recent code from GitHub or you do like a git pull origin main. But it
[06:09] seems like nowadays we can literally just talk to the AI and it'll do it all for us. We don't need to know git commands anymore. It's fun. Or are we getting dumber? I don't know. So then next we have this still going. So we got the UI was a create PR right here. It's outlining everything that changed here. Nice. Create pull request. And this kind of gets into the second thing I wanted to talk about which is this can be quite excessive for small changes to do a PR every single time. So I'm going merge this real quick again. Delete branch. That's fine. We're going to see the changes pretty soon here. But notate that. Understand that when using cloud
[06:39] code here, okay, yeah, if it's going to be a small bug fix, fix the bug. Fix it. But if you're doing something bigger, then I would leverage more meaty prompts and jive down a bigger rabbit hole when leveraging this little chat feature right here. So obviously I don't have to create the PR yet, but we can create iterations of this and keep talking to Claude until we are satisfied with the results. And of course, again, you could in theory create the PR right now and then not merge it and then create iterations with reply to Claude. So I'm going to pull the most recent code again
[07:10] because we just merged two different PRs. There we go. You'll know it's successfully merged when you see this little thing right here. Hit commits. You can see it's getting pulled here. I say pull is just grabbing the code. So perfect. Coming back over to our counter. We have a dark UI. Plus two minus two minus two minus two plus two plus two. I'm a robot. 0 0 1 1 0 0 binary. Nice. But how does it compare to the other coding platforms? If you already find yourself entrenched in the clawed ecosystem, then yeah, you can leverage
[07:41] this. Here are some things that this doesn't have that Codex has though. What Codex has, and I'm actually going to release a video here pretty soon, so make sure to subscribe here of how to upgrade Codeex is it has something called versions and it has something called code review. Here's a TLDDR of what that means. Essentially, versions allows you to do, hey, I want a dark theme. It gives you three different versions of that for your front end. Three different little code differences, right? What does code review mean? It is extremely dope. Literally, you do at@cex in the PR and then Chad GBT will check
[08:11] your PR and point out bugs or situations that could break your application. A whole another video is coming out on that. So, just subscribe here. It should be coming out literally tomorrow, I'm pretty sure, after this one. So, where does that leave us with which tool to use to be honest with you, it's diversified. Eg. We use the tools that work best for whatever part of the pipeline of your software development you are currently in. So for example, if you absolutely love claude, I love cla code here. Or in theory, our base level could be okay local code, I work in the
[08:41] cursor IDE. When I'm mobile, maybe don't want to pull out my cursor IDE, I use cloud code. And when I push a PR, I use codeex to review that code. And then obviously it all just shows up here and you have your fresh new application. Let me know in the comments if you want me to dive into a video that really shows you how to use every single one of these tools in the most effective way because in reality it's not a one-sizefitit all situation. But without further ado, as you already know with these style of videos, make sure you leave a like. It is completely free. I'll see you in the next. Why do I feel like in one or two weeks, Claude Code is also going to come off a new ability that does code review. So then everything you watch in this
[09:12] video, you're going to be like, Corbin, hey, do you know, by the way, that Codex is not the only one that can do code review, but so can Claude. Well, my bad. I posted this video two weeks before type of video. Nice.