alt Hacker NewsWhat happens if OpenAI collapses at this point? Is it just too big to fail given defense contracts and Microsoft?
The Sora sunsetting marked a big shift towards enterprise focus and meeting Anthropic on the enterprise battlefield, but almost all engineers I work with or know are using Claude at this point exclusively.
Anyone seeing differently?
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Nothing of note would happen if OpenAI collapsed. The same prompts will work with claude or gemini and the outputs will be good enough.
I've also noted that 90% of technical users I encounter are on claude or mostly-claude via cursor (switching models here-and-there).
Claude Code definitely has a head start, but there have been a few HN posts about a perceived nerfing of the intelligence and settings in the past month or so. Codex could capitalize on that weakness. They just introduced a $100 monthly 5x plan so they are at parity with the Claude Code plans. If Anthropic fiddles too much more with the settings then people will start to switch to Codex.
Seeing the same, Claude with every engineer. Even some non technical people moved to Claude from ChatGPT recently.
All our engineers use Claude but all the AI features in our app are built on OpenAI models
At work there’s only codex right now (no approval yet for anthropic - OpenAI access was easier/faster through Microsoft)
It was a pretty straightforward transition going from mostly using claude code, to now exclusively codex
The world would barely notice if both OpenAI and Anthropic “fail”. There is a lot of competition in this space
> too big to fail
genuine question, what do you think these words mean?
> Anyone seeing differently?
There have been a stream of HN posts (I'm noticed this mainly in the past few weeks) implying some people prefer ChatGPT/Codex to Claude.
Anecdotally, Claude on the $20/month plan can only run 1-3 queries per 4 hours before rate limiting, often stopping in the middle of a query. ChatGPT/Codex doesn't have this problem.