Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are the lead devs of CC at Anthropic who unsurprisingly talk their book and find so many ways to justify tokenmaxing.
As the product they deliver is greenfield and in the newest of domain spaces, there is a serious halo-effect to consider.
On a side note, at a company I know the devs are split between
Stick to Copilot inside visual studio
- suspiciously cheap Opus quotas there
+ they read their code
pi coding agent
+ control all the things my way
- each their own way
Claude Code
+ it's magic
- you mean it did that to my prompt!
Copilot's extreme subsidies end this month. Starting in June, you'll be paying API rates for all models.