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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 »

geor9e wrote: post #58
genghisjahn wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Is this because Anthropic models are worse at those tasks, or more expensive, or what?

They are great, but they are expensive. I can run those against the cheaper ollama cloud models for things that are basically requirements gathering and review of a plan. The Product Designer Agent and the Product Manager basically argue for a few rounds and give an artifact that the coding agents pick up.

It could all easily be anthropic models and would work well, but running this swarm eats up all my anthropic tokens and these other models are good enough for the roles I've given them.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by sjsjzbbz »

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’re doing a lot of dev hostile stuff:

- limiting model access when not using claude code

- claude code is a poorly made product. inefficient, buggy, etc. it shows they don’t read the code

- thousands of open GitHub issues, regressions introduced constantly

- dev hostile changes like the recent change to hide what the agent is actually doing

However, they are very good at marketing and hype. I’d recommend everyone give pi or opencode a try. My guess is anthropic actually wants vibe coders (a much broader market).

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by anonzzzies »

Gemini is supposed to have this huge context; Gemini cli (paid) often forgets by the next prompt whatever the previous was about and starts doing something completely different , often switching natural or programming language. I use codex and with 5.3 it is better but not there compared to cc for us anyway; it just goes looking for stuff, draws the most bizarre conclusions and ends up lost quite often doing the wrong things. Mistral works quite well on smaller issues. Cerebras gml rocks on quick analysis; if it had more token allowance and less rate limiting , it would probably be what I would use all the time; unfortunately, on a large project, I hit a 24 hour block in less than an hour of coding. It does do a LOT in that time of course because of its bizarre speed.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by nozzlegear »

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…

That was exactly why I had been a paying Anthropic customer as well – I trusted them more than I trusted OpenAI or Google. But I canceled my subscription this morning after the news that they've ditched their core safety promise [†], and they look likely to fold to the Pentagon's demands on autonomous weapons/surveillance as well.

[†] https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-...

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by mowmiatlas »

Well CC is awesome, there's that.

Codex is awesome too. Opencode is awesome as well. It's so easy to transition from one tool to another especially when one command in project root is what it needs to get up to speed.

But I actually feel like asking Opus to review Codex and vice versa gives me best results. Opus does push back on some reviews comments, sometimes Codex is overselling a feature, but at least to me it feels like I have more points of control, and different perspective even if I could simulate it with two terminal sessions lol

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Post by bigbadfeline »

scuff3d wrote: post #42
TZubiri wrote: post #2

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

Given my own experiences with LLMs, I'm convinced about half the comments on any given thread are just bots told to hype

That's about right, my estimate is 50% to 70% depending on case.

On the other hand, isn't it clear that people will be more productive with whatever agent they have experience with? That's my reason for going with open source agents and the attempts of Big LLM to kill that workflow only reaffirm my decision.

Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

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Post by mark_l_watson »

genghisjahn wrote: post #41
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…

very cool!
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