Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

phito wrote: post #3

Well yeah, it is just better. At my work we have a copilot license, but we use it to access Claude Sonnet/Opus model in OpenCode.

The Copilot-Cli is not so bad,

https://github.com/features/copilot/cli

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by dude250711 » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC

We can certainly see, every Windows update requires flipping a coin now.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by onion2k » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 12:38 PM UTC

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code." You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

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Post by lloydatkinson » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 12:41 PM UTC

I have found that Claude Code is better in every way I've used it. I like to use LLM's just as an advanced refactoring tool, especially where plain string search isn't enough. Anyway, my first experience of Copilot was it plainly lying that it deleted files I asked it to, and it insisted the file no longer existed (it did).

The difference between the two is stark.

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Post by nrawe » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #6

Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to " 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. " You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.

I've not heard that goal before. If true, it makes me sad to hear that once again, people confuse "More LOC == More Customer Value == More Profit". Sigh.

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Post by fastThinking » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

So Copilot is for customers, Claude is for getting actual work done?

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Post by dataviz1000 » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 12:44 PM UTC

I installed Claude Code yesterday after the quality of VSCode Copilot Chat continuously is getting worse every release. I can't tell yet if Claude Code is better or not but VSCode Copilot Chat has become completely unusable. It would start making mistakes which would double the requests to Claude Opus 4.5 which in January is the only model that would work at all. I spent $400 in tokens in January.

I'll know better in a week. Hopefully I can get better results with the $200 a month plan.