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Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by johncessna »

ahofmann wrote: post #9
gadflyinyoureye wrote: post #5

Use to love Grok Code Fast 1 because it was free on GHCP. I gave it context but just let it churn on a solution. Claude is far better but a finite resource. I think OpenCode plus GPT-4o might be my next step.

What is GHCP?

github copilot

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by fgkramer »

ahofmann wrote: post #9
gadflyinyoureye wrote: post #5

Use to love Grok Code Fast 1 because it was free on GHCP. I gave it context but just let it churn on a solution. Claude is far better but a finite resource. I think OpenCode plus GPT-4o might be my next step.

What is GHCP?

GitHub Copilot

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

> Half their agentic usage is coding. When that's your reality, you train for it. You optimize the tool use, the file editing, the multi-step workflows - because that's what your paying users are actually doing. Google doesn't have that same pressure.

I wonder if this is a strategic choice — anthropic has decided to go after the developers, a motivated but limited market. Whereas the general populace might be more attracted to improved search tools, allowing Google/openai/etc to capture that larger market

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by jkukul »

gadflyinyoureye wrote: post #5

Use to love Grok Code Fast 1 because it was free on GHCP. I gave it context but just let it churn on a solution. Claude is far better but a finite resource. I think OpenCode plus GPT-4o might be my next step.

I hope you're not too invested into GPT-4o because it has been retired so you'll need to use a different model :)

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by smt88 »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #10

Could it be tooling like Claude Code? I just used Claude Code with qwen3.5:35b running locally to track down two obscure bugs in new Common Lisp code I wrote yesterday.

Qwen seems fine for analysis to me, but Opus 4.6 is far better to use as a sounding board or for writing code

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

ghqst wrote: post #7
TZubiri wrote: post #2

Was it ever confirmed that Anthropic did paid astroturfing? Or is this organic?

I think this is organic. I've observed the exact same thing over the last week: I tried Google Antigravity and really liked it when I was using my Claude quota. I ran out of Claude quota and tried Gemini 3.1 Pro and it was comparatively terrible at using the tools provided by the IDE. (but it's a useful model in the browser for chat)

+1, Claude is just better for me.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by dalenw »

ChadMoran wrote: post #4

Model aside, the harness of Claude Code is just a much better experience. Agent teams, liberal use of tasks and small other ergonomics make it a better dev tool for me.

I've heard a lot of people prefer OpenCode to Claude Code, myself included. Having tried both, I find myself having a much better time in OpenCode. Have you tried it?

I'll admit it lacks on the agent teams side but I tend to use AI sparingly compared to others on my team.

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