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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 genghisjahn »

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.

I use Claude Code as an orchestrator and have the agents use different models:

  product-designer   ollama-cloud / qwen3.5:cloud
  pm                 ollama-cloud / glm-5:cloud
  test-writer        claude-code  / Sonnet 4.6
  backend-builder    claude-code  / Opus 4.6
  frontend-builder   claude-code  / Opus 4.6
  code-reviewer      codex-cli    / gpt-5.1-codex-mini
  git-committer      ollama-cloud / minimax-m2.5:cloud
I use ollama pro $20/month and OpenAI $20/month. I have an Anthropic max plan at $100/month.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by colechristensen »

bottlepalm wrote: post #25

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…

Codex and Gemini don't do as good a job or can't do what I ask them.

The complexity of a project vs. getting lost and confused metric, Claude does a lot better than every time I've tried something else, that's it.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by verdverm »

WarmWash wrote: post #35
verdverm wrote: post #16

Dev, very happy with Gemini, especially flash Googles AI products suck hard though

Antigravity is pretty good, gemini CLI is rough though

I really dislike antigravity, I can get a better experience with a vs code extension (I did before anti even came out)

$2B, best pork ever, it's not even theirs to begin with, so in a lot of senses, it's not a Google product

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by azinman2 »

sidrag22 wrote: post #39

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, bu…

I believe anthropic is the only one that lets you opt out of training based on your chats for the developer subscription plans? Is that right?

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

WarmWash wrote: post #31
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.

Hmm that makes some sense to me as well, like buying eco upgrades early in an rts game. But that assumes that better programming leads to more-generally-competent AI, which I think is tenuous. The thing that sparked this recent AI summer was not better programming, so why would better programming lead to the next/ongoing big improvements?

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by dandiep »

bottlepalm wrote: post #25

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…

For me, Codex does well at pure-coding based tasks, but the moment it involves product judgement, design, or writing – which a lot of my tasks do – I need to pull in Claude. It is like Claude is trained on product management and design, not just coding.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by IAmGraydon »

Developers prefer Claude because that's their brand, a very intentional choice. If you have a very specific use in mind (like coding), you aren't going to go for the jack of all trades, master of none solution. You're going to go for the coding specialist, which Anthropic has squarely positioned themselves as. Props to them for it - they correctly predicted that LLMs can do many things, but perhaps the most valuable is coding as they're very well suited to it due to the rigidly defined syntax and high cost of engineers.
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