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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 ryoshu »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #3

I've been using ChatGPT (Thinking). I like how it has learned how I do stuff, and keeps that in mind. Yesterday, I asked it to design an API, and it referenced a file I had sent in, for a different server, days earlier, in order to figure out what to do. I'm not using it in the same way that many folks do. Maybe if I get to that point, I'll prefer Claude, but for my workflow, ChatGPT has been ideal. I guess the best…

Oof. I turned the history referencing off. I use ChatGPT for wildly diverging topics and it will bring things up that have zero relevance to what I'm currently looking for if history is on.

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Post by ronsor »

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.

GPT-4o is discontinued now

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Post by gadflyinyoureye »

jkukul wrote: post #17
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 :)

That's fair. I just use the free dreg models. Unlimited tokens with those.

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Post by bottlepalm »

I don't think vibe coders know the difference, but often when I ask AI to add a feature to a large code base, I already know how I'd do it myself, and the answer that Claude comes up with is more often the one I would have done. Codex and Gemini have burned me too many times, and I keep going back to Claude. I trust it's judgement. Anthropic models have always been a step above OpenAI and Google, even 2 years ago it was like that so it must be something fundamental.

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Post by bonoboTP »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #15

> 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 at…

They are heavily dogfooding. Coding is needed to orchestrate the training of the next Claude model, data processing, RL environments, evals, scaffolding, UI, APIs, automated experiments, cluster management, etc etc. This allows them to get the next model faster and then get the next one etc.

Making a model that's great at other kinds of knowledge/office work is coincidental, it doesn't feed back directly into improving the model.

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Post by pgm8705 »

I also have always gone back to Claude after trying new models... until GPT-5.3-Codex, specifically with the new Codex Mac app. I've been pretty much full time with it for a few weeks now and have not missed Claude Code. It can over complicate things at times, but for the most part, it is providing working solutions on first go and following coding patterns that already exist in my app. With Claude, it would frequently knock out a feature with acceptable code quality, but be completely broken and require a round of debugging.

I'm even getting by without hitting limits on the $20/month plan, whereas I needed to be on the $100/month one with Claude.

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Post by tayo42 »

TZubiri wrote: post #2

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

Could be both?

I've been leaning more towards claude. A lot of the LLM tropes seem to be ChatGPT really? I feel like claude doesn't do as much of the overly intense "its this -- not that" pattern and isn't constantly acting like my hype man. Claude code has been nice 90% of the time. I haven't tried to many competitors though.

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