alt Hacker NewsI 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 was like that so it must be something fundamental.
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Claude is good with code but I've found gemini is good for researching topics.
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.
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.