alt Hacker News> I am a huge fan of Copilot CLI. It just feels so logical and low-friction to use compared to Claude Code.
Honest question, can you ellaborate? If given the option, I use OpenCode but what do you find in Copilot CLI that makes you prefer it to Claude Code?
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gwerbin • today at 11:19 AM
Not OP but Copilot CLI is really straightforward, almost minimal in some sense. It's a lot like OpenCode but stripped down.
I also use the Copilot ACP server inside Pycharm and that works decently well too, although it has some annoying bugs, but if you're a Jetbrains user you're used to annoying bugs.
It's a combination of small things really. The mentioned ability to easily call on various models in the same prompt, having agent definitions be able to orchestrate other agents just by mentioning it in the description, doing things like goal/loop automatically.
There is also IMO a distinct difference in "tone" in the dialogue. Claude seems to impersonate a human a bit more than I like.
Claude is of course very good as well and does a few things better than copilot too, but overall I'd prefer to use Copilot.