alt Hacker NewsYup, OP is conflating so many things that the comparison has all the scientific rigor of the Pepsi Challenge.
For a developer using an LLM on a daily basis, the experience is about much more than just the resultant code.
There’s everything from:
- how often you had to manually steer the model
- how frequently you needed to course-correct
- how much detail you had to provide up front
- how was the interaction process (sycophantic, etc)
- how well did it handle MCP and external tooling?
- how effectively could it pull in additional information from external sources such as the web?
- how fast did it produce code?
- how much did it cost?
Many of my friends who are devs use things like OpenCode CLI with Openrouter because they switch between the various SOTA models so often. Just because you saw a Claude "meetup" doesn't prove anything other than somebody chose the name because it resonated more than "Generic LLM Meetup".
the answer is : I usually let it do its thing with bypass permission and I run the max plan so nothing really matters except the "result". I think Claude is faster and has better UX integration with vscode but I wouldn't use it without GPT 5.5 XHigh as reviewer.Claude is just sloppy. Eventually I think it will not matter much in 1 -2 years. Most AI models will be good enough for most tasks so you may need the best of the best only if you do very complex stuff (i.e. optimizations etc)