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Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by noname120 »

Oreb wrote: post #59
ben_w wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been my experience too. I'm using the recent free trial of OpenAI Plus to vibe code, and from this I would say that if Claude Code is a junior with 1-3 years of experience, OpenAI's Codex is like a student coder.

Does it depend on what type of programming you do? Doing Swift/SwiftUI work, I have exactly the opposite experience. I’ve been using both recently, and I want to use Claude alone (especially after the last week’s events), but Codex is just so much faster and better.

Do you use GPT-5.3-Codex Extra High or another model?

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by coldtrait »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #177
coldtrait wrote: post #153

As someone who can't afford to care about ethics and pay a monthly subscription fee, is there anything in the regular Claude chat that beats OpenAI?

It’s the best platform for serious work. ChatGPT swings between writing degenerate free use shit and telling you that you should wait until marriage. Lots of moralism to it, really tries to censor you and manipulate you, even in normal conversations. Generally smart and capable, but the whiny attitude gets old. Grok has zero filter, but is dumber than the others. Definitely built around cheapness. Caps answers at abo…

Thanks, I'll try more of Claude. Back in the day when I first tried it out I easily burned through message limits every day. I've been mulling over paying for Claude Code but I just keep using the free tier of Antigravity and some from my Pro plan.

I happen to have a Gemini Pro subscription that I got through my network provider in India, but i use it only for coding and Nano Banana slop. And occasionally live audio/video chat from my mobile which is actually the best use case I've seen so far although it gets old pretty fast and isn't great beyond basic tasks.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by coldtrait »

ericol wrote: post #154
coldtrait wrote: post #153

As someone who can't afford to care about ethics and pay a monthly subscription fee, is there anything in the regular Claude chat that beats OpenAI?

I regularly (Say, once a month) do a comparison of results across all Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. Just for reasons, not that I want to see if there's any benefit in changing. It's not "fair" in that I pay for Claude [1] and not for the others, so models availability is not complete except for Claude. So I did like things at time in the form of how they were presented, I came to really like Sonnet's "voice" a lot over…

Thanks for your perspective.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by andai »

Does this actually work?

In ChatGPT there's a page where you can just list all memories. Doesn't it seem more reliable to copy paste that, than asking the LLM itself to repeat it (and saying "continue" over and over until it finishes?)

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by bluGill »

codechicago277 wrote: post #247
bluGill wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are no universial morals. Anything - everything you think is evil some culture (possibly in history) thinks is good). I can't even think of something good that I'm confident everyone would agree is good. there are some people (companies are run by people) that are so bad I boycott them. Most bad I treat like society cannot work without accepting them anyway.

There’s no possibility or need for morality to be universal, and societies have improved their ethics many times throughout history. Your take is nihilistic and presupposes that moral progress isn’t possible, even though we’ve seen objective moral progress many times.

Morals / ethics change of course. However that is not objective progress, only subjuctive. You think it is objective because you agree with the new system. Slave owners of the past would call it a regression that they can't live their lifestyle. Of course I agree with the new standards (at least here) and so am glad they can't.

edit: yes, nillistic - but sometimes you have to go there

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

Peaches4Rent wrote: post #248
peteforde wrote: post #98

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ChatGPT knows what's in my bar and what types of base liquors I love and/or can't drink. It knows what fruit, syrups and mixes are in my fridge. It knows that my friend is allergic to mint. It knows that when I ask for recommendations, I tend to want a choice between spirit forward, tiki, martini and herbaceous. ChatGPT knows the broad strokes of the 3-4 main hardware projects I have on the go, and depending on the q…

It it just me who's getting freaked out by this? I know it's a boiling frog situation, but seeing it spelt out feels so icky vs how google ads feel. I really want my personality data deleted from big tech... Sigh

Hackers: I won't give my data to Google! I'll use a niche OS on a niche rooted phone, and it's OK that my bank's app won't work.

Also hackers: that comment.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by Terretta »

thunky wrote: post #239
toss1 wrote: post #172

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If each of us individually or as corporations should not be in the business of deciding what it "evil", who should be in that business? Everyone SHOULD continuously consider, decide, and live by moral judgements and codes they internalize, and use to make choices in life. This aspect of life should NEVER be outsourced — of course, learn from and use codes others have developed and lived by — but ALWAYS consider deepl…

> If each of us individually or as corporations should not be in the business of deciding what it "evil", who should be in that business? This is easy imo. Two methods: 1. The law. It should not be legal for the US Govt to murder people at will. If it is legal, then of course they'll use tools to make it easier. Maybe AI, maybe Clippy. If they can't use AI then they'll fall back to using some other way of doing it li…

It's illegal to drive drunk or read your cell phone and hit strangers head on.

Nevertheless, it wasn't lawmakers, it was car makers who innovated to build-in airbags and seatbelts and lane assist and and and ... under the theory that though it's illegal, bad things are done anyway, and guardrails still matter.

Colloquialism: "belt and suspenders".

Many, like Volvo, go above and beyond the requirements to make their vehicles safer, and then having demonstrated these guardrails, some become law as well (even as other makers in the industry kick and scream about being forced to, and riders rebel against buckling up).

As we haven't solved this stand off for a century, we are unlikely to resolve it within the pace needed by expansion of AI. In this scenario, Anthropic is Volvo.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by dang »

neya wrote: post #48
Joeri wrote: post #13

I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat. I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure t…

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