Switch to Claude without starting over

Post by jacquesm » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 10:03 AM UTC

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…

Post by jacquesm » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

AlecSchueler wrote: post #58

KellyCriterion wrote: post #30

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> there really is no moat. For ChatGPT and Gemini, yes. But for Claude, they have a very deep & big one: Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt. Yesterday I used my tokens til noon, so I tried some output from Gemini & Co. I presented a working piece of code which is already in production: 1. It changed without noticing things like "Touple.First.Date.Created" and "Touple.Se…

> Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt. Yesterday I used my tokens til noon, so I tried some output from Gemini & Co. I presented a working piece of code which is already in production: One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code. It could be that this wasn't a like for like com…

Post by jacquesm » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 10:07 AM UTC

rustyhancock wrote: post #36

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…

I know this is necessarily a very unpopular opinion however. I think HN in particular as a crowd are very vulnerable to the halo effect and group think when it comes to Anthropic. Even being generous they are only very minimally a "better actor" than OpenAI. However, we are so enthralled by their product that we tend to let the view bleed over to their ethics. Saying we want out tools used in line with the US constit…

Post by rustyhancock » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC

earthnail wrote: post #41

rustyhancock wrote: post #36

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I know this is necessarily a very unpopular opinion however. I think HN in particular as a crowd are very vulnerable to the halo effect and group think when it comes to Anthropic. Even being generous they are only very minimally a "better actor" than OpenAI. However, we are so enthralled by their product that we tend to let the view bleed over to their ethics. Saying we want out tools used in line with the US constit…

Well, they did stand up to the US administration and lost a lot of money in the process. That takes courage. They clearly were being bullied into compliance, and they stood their ground. You can see the significance of this is you look at German Nazi history. If more companies had stood up to the administration, the Nazi state would have been significantly harder to build. In my opinion, what Anthropic did is not a s…

Post by rustyhancock » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 10:11 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #75

rustyhancock wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know this is necessarily a very unpopular opinion however. I think HN in particular as a crowd are very vulnerable to the halo effect and group think when it comes to Anthropic. Even being generous they are only very minimally a "better actor" than OpenAI. However, we are so enthralled by their product that we tend to let the view bleed over to their ethics. Saying we want out tools used in line with the US constit…

It's not high. But it is higher.