Claude
24 recommend 25 criticize 11 moved to it 13 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Codex to Claude”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities”pid0x17, 2026-09-15original comment ↗
“claude was able to diagnose that the 2013 rail is around 11.44v (outside of the 10v range iirc)”jlawrence6809, 2026-09-02original comment ↗
“So far all the suggestion that Opus 5.0 offered me, always aligned with what i wanted.”benjiro29, 2026-08-13original comment ↗
“Clause writes scaffolds quick and flawless anyway”search_facility, 2026-07-26original comment ↗
“I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours.”boron1006, 2026-07-14original comment ↗
“I think Claude writes much better Code.”mschuetz, 2026-06-27original comment ↗
“Claude Cowork is something non-tech employees can make use of much easier than Cursor.”basisword, 2026-06-16original comment ↗
“both Gemini and Claude have been fantastic at helping me build custom plugins that make it do exactly what I want it to.”Jordan-117, 2026-06-09original comment ↗
“was quite solvable with 4.7.”teruakohatu, 2026-05-28original comment ↗
“Claude has taken lead in coding task but GPT 5.5 has come stronger.”kramit1288, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“But yet they can afford to pay Anthropic $200/mo forever?”lrvick, 2026-10-30original comment ↗
“I've mostly switched from Claude to Codex because I find the harness so buggy and annoying that I avoid it when I can.”overgard, 2026-10-14original comment ↗
“at the end both models swore that the code is perfect and well designed and nothing is lacking.”username_my1, 2026-09-28original comment ↗
“Claude always spoke to me with a suspicious side eye as if I was trying to do something naughty.”declan_roberts, 2026-09-22original comment ↗
“after I cancelled my Claude subscription because it found tge responses verbose, condescending.”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“Anthropic has really lost the plot even in user-facing output.”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I switched from Claude to Codex because Claude just doesn't do what you actually tell it to half the time.”coderenegade, 2026-09-12original comment ↗
“I think this reveals an unacceptable level of paternalism: Anthropic fundamentally believes that it possesses a moral authority superior to the people actually paying…”read full quote
“I think this reveals an unacceptable level of paternalism: Anthropic fundamentally believes that it possesses a moral authority superior to the people actually paying for the API.”
“I recently switched from Claude to Codex because I was blowing through my Claude limits.”jeffreyrogers, 2026-08-23original comment ↗
“At some point one has to wonder if it's still worth using anthropic's models if we need to babysit 100% of its output with another vendor's model.”bob1029, 2026-08-20original comment ↗
“I switched from claude to gpt when 5.6 came out for the same reasons.”justinbaker84, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“I hit this feeling with Claude one too many times and switched from Anthropic Pro to OpenAI Pro.”ferris-booler, 2026-08-10original comment ↗
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- ChatGPT → Claude (3 hackers)
- Claude Code → Claude (1 hacker)
- Codex → Claude (1 hacker)
- Cursor → Claude (1 hacker)
- Gemini → Claude (1 hacker)
- GitHub Copilot → Claude (1 hacker)
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- OpenAI API → Claude (1 hacker)
- OpenAI models → Claude (1 hacker)
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