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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 WarmWash »

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…

It's more likely that anthropic feels that if they can crack just programming, then their agents can rapidly do the legwork of surpassing the other labs.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

ryoshu wrote: post #21
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.

Yup. I can see that being a problem. My use is pretty linear, so that isn't an issue. I think that you might be able to establish different "contexts," though I haven't tried.

I will see whether or not I can “wipe the slate clean,” between projects.

I would also NEVER use it for any confidential/proprietary stuff that can’t leak.

The project I’m working on is not open-source, but we don’t really care too much, if it leaks. I don’t send in any credentials; just source.

Right now, it’s helping me design tests in Postman, to validate the API.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by istillcantcode »

I prefer Googles. I can only afford the free models. I normally copy and paste my stuff into 4-5 models and compare the responses. Its probably a waste of time, but very mentally satisfying. I mostly program as a form of mental stimulation instead of trying to become a billionaire. Taking this perspective, using AI agents is not really the same experience, and less mentally stimulating than programming.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by mrdependable »

I use Claude for a few reasons.

1) I don't want to give OpenAI my money. I don't like how they are spending so much money to shape politics to benefit them. That seems to fly in the face of this being a public benefit. If you have to spend money like that because you're afraid of what the public will do, what does that say?

2) I like how Claude just gives me straight text on one side, examples on the other, and nothing else. ChatGPT and Gemini tend to go overboard with tables, lists, emojis, etc. I can't stand it.

3) A lot of technical online conversation seems to have been hollowed out in recent years. The amount of people making blog posts explaining how to use something new has basically tanked.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by sidrag22 »

There is also the very lame auto win category that i happen to fall into...

I dont trust openai, or google. google has beyond proven that they aren't trustworthy well before the LLM coding tool era. I am legitimately not even giving them a chance.

Sadly I am assuming anthropic will at some point lose my trust, but for now they just feel like the obvious choice for me.

So obviously i am a terrible overall observer, but i am sure i am not alone in the auto win portion of devs choosing anthropic.

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Post by j2kun »

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…

> Google doesn't have that same pressure.

I doubt it. Gemini is heavily used internally for coding with integrations across Google's developer tooling. gemini-cli is not meaningfully different from claude code.

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