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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
#72I 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…
The title is about developers, not vibe coders (no, it is not the same thing)
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#73I’m quite happy with the Codex app.
I am too, and haven't really given Anthropic's stuff a fair shake as a result, and am so curious if I'm missing out or if it's the same shit different pile.
I fired up Codex yesterday and asked it to do a security review on an UE5 project i'm working on with Claude. It found some things that Claude already knew about. But nothing made me feel confident it could _write_ UE5 C++ code as well as Claude. I guess it's worth a shot testing it on a minor feature, but what other people are saying here gels with my experience as well.
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#74I 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 nothi…
Wow, I'd always considered claude more of a software tool and never really gave it a chance at regular chat, but yeah after one session I think I'm a convert for exactly #2.
I'm fine with charts, but ChatGPT is so long-winded and redundant. "When would I use such-and-such pattern?" "That's exactly the right question to ask! ... What you're really asking ... Why that's interesting ... Why some people find it critical ... Option 1 ... Option 2 ... Consideration ... Table comparing to so-and-so ... The deep reason ... What it all boils down to ... The one-line answer (tight!) ... The next thing you need to know ... I can also draw a useless picture for you. Would you like me to do that?"
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#75I started using Codex 5.3. Compare to Opus 4.6, it's more precise in pinning down bugs and more concise with code. Opus can be best described as distracted and easily agreeable. Codex actually digs deeper for root causes and push back when I'm wrong.
Interesting, I started playing a little with Codex yesterday and it did find some bugs Claude already knew about it, and seemed pretty matter of fact about it. I might have to point it at some of the harder bugs and see how it goes.
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#76I 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…
I'm there with you, but only been using it a couple months now. I find that as long as I spend a fair amount of time with Claude specifying the work before starting the work, it tends to go really well. I have a general approach on how I want to run/build the software in development and it goes pretty smoothly with Claude. I do have to review what it does and sanity check things... I've tended to find bugs where I expect to see bugs, just from experience.
I keep using the analogy of working with a disconnected overseas dev team over email... since I've had to do this before. The difference is turn around in minutes instead of the next day.
On a current project, I just have it keep expanding on the TODO.md as working through the details... I'd say it's going well so far... Deno driver for MS-SQL using a Rust+FFI library. Still have some sanity checks around pooling, and need to test a couple windows only features (SSPI/Windows Auth and FILESTREAM) in a Windows environment, and I'll be ready to publish... About 3-4 hours of initial planning, 3 hours of initial iteration, then another 1:1:1:1 hours of planning/iteration working through features, etc.
Aside, I have noticed a few times a day, particularly west coast afternoon and early evening, the entire system seems to go 1/3 the speed... I'm guessing it's the biggest load on Anthropic's network as a whole.
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#77I 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 nothi…
Wow, I'd always considered claude more of a software tool and never really gave it a chance at regular chat, but yeah after one session I think I'm a convert for exactly #2. I'm fine with charts, but ChatGPT is so long-winded and redundant. "When would I use such-and-such pattern?" "That's exactly the right question to ask! ... What you're really asking ... Why that's interesting ... Why some people find it critical…
I like Claude a lot for general and technical questions... I like xAI for some of that as well, especially for very current event summaries.
I will say with Claude that I often have to make sure to give it the context of a question for it to give me answers I'm looking for. I find in general it does better when you include the why's behind a decision or question.
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#78Could 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…
I do in similar way, connect claude code to litellm router that dispatches model requests to different providers: bedrock, openai, gemini, openrouter and ollama for opensource models. I have special slash command and script that collect information about session, project and observed problems to evaluation dataset. I can re-evaluate prompts and find models that do a job in particular agent faster/cheaper, or use automated prompt optimization to eliminate problems.
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#79I'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…
The past few weeks, Claude has started doing that as well... ie recognizing my preference to use Deno for scripting or React+mui when scaffolding a ui around something.
I've been using the browser/desktop for planning sessions on pieces of a larger project I'm putting together and it's been connecting the dots in unexpected ways from the other conversations.
I think the one disappointment is that I can't seem to resume a conversation from the web/desktop interface to the code interface... I have to have it generate a zip I can extract then work from.
Re: Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
#80There 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…
The sometimes hot garbage I get from the AI results for technical questions in the past year or so has me not even considering them from the start... I've tried github copilot (whatever the default engine is) and OpenAI and just found it annoying. Claude is the first one that I've felt was more productive than annoying and I just started using it.