Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

Re:Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI by bottlepalm on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:41AM (#47168425)

I 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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Re:Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI by dandiep on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:53AM (#47168625)

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 trade on product management and design, not just coding.

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Re:Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI by quaintdev on Thursday February 26, 2026 @12:09PM (#47168847)

Claude is good with code but I've found gemini is good for researching topics.

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Re:Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI by seedium_tech on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:53AM (#47178251)

Totally agree

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Re:Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI by colechristensen on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:49AM (#47168570)

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.

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Re:Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI by geldedus on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:46PM (#47171084)

The title is about developers, not vibe coders (no, it is not the same thing)

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Re:Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI by tracker1 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:45PM (#47172396)

I'm there with you, but only been using it a couple months now. I find that as long as I spend a fair amount of time with Claude specifying the work before starting the work, it tends to go really well. I have a general approach on how I want to run/build the software in development and it goes pretty smoothly with Claude. I do have to review what it does and sanity check things... I've tended to find bugs where I expect to see bugs, just from experience.

I keep using the analogy of working with a disconnected overseas dev team over email... since I've had to do this before. The difference is turn around in minutes instead of the next day.

On a current project, I just have it keep expanding on the TODO.md as working through the details... I'd say it's going well so far... Deno driver for MS-SQL using a Rust+FFI library. Still have some sanity checks around pooling, and need to test a couple windows only features (SSPI/Windows Auth and FILESTREAM) in a Windows environment, and I'll be ready to publish... About 3-4 hours of initial planning, 3 hours of initial iteration, then another 1:1:1:1 hours of planning/iteration working through features, etc.

Aside, I have noticed a few times a day, particularly west coast afternoon and early evening, the entire system seems to go 1/3 the speed... I'm guessing it's the biggest load on Anthropic's network as a whole.

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