Claude Code
14 recommend 21 criticize 4 moved to it 19 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“I've found the cross-session context and memory in claude code much more helpful which can lead to better outcomes faster.”j0ej0ej0e, 2026-08-29original comment ↗
“We switched from looking at an UI (claude webui) and waiting for code generation to using claude exclusivlie on the cli and claude doing a lot more stuff in the…”read full quote
“We switched from looking at an UI (claude webui) and waiting for code generation to using claude exclusivlie on the cli and claude doing a lot more stuff in the background with smaller prompts.”
“I switched to Claude Code and VSCode for any edits.”murlax, 2026-08-01original comment ↗
“Over time I found that it would rarely fail to one-shot my request”czxtm, 2026-07-02original comment ↗
“having them in the pair cc + models is what matters”NitpickLawyer, 2026-04-30original comment ↗
“The vast vast majority of my code is written by Claude Code, so I don’t write much.”goodoldneon, 2026-03-30original comment ↗
“While Claude is clearly superior in many aspects”javiercr, 2026-03-27original comment ↗
“I switched from a basic prompt wrapper to structured tool use with Claude Code and the quality of output jumped overnight.”jbetala7, 2026-02-12original comment ↗
“I just had Claude Code create one that was highly idiosyncratic to my needs.”arjie, 2026-02-03original comment ↗
“I recently switched from $10 Github Copilot to $20 Claude Code and so far haven't seen any benefits.”arowthway, 2026-01-20original comment ↗
“Claude Code essentially converted my configs in a matter of minutes”arnvald, 2026-01-10original comment ↗
“Execution Layer (Claude Code): Used for heavy lifting—implementing the cron jobs, refactoring API patterns, and writing the test suite.”kanchanepally, 2025-12-30original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“The tui is actually hurting my main usage of them which is controlling agent programmatically.”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I moved from Claude Code to Codex for ROI and code quality reasons”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“I can't do that with Claude Code without feeling overwhelmed and starting to heavily procrastinate”pid0x17, 2026-09-15original comment ↗
“It ALWAYS wanted to 'grep' things.”ghoul2, 2026-09-02original comment ↗
“Yep, switched from CC to 5.6 Sol.”brotchie, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“I frequently max out my weekly usage”8cvor6j844qw_d6, 2026-07-11original comment ↗
“I switched from Claude code to the GitHub copilot app recently.”zabil, 2026-05-23original comment ↗
“The attitude of 4.7 is what is more problematic. Difficult to enforce checking stuff before answering”Frannky, 2026-05-03original comment ↗
“I switched from CC to Codex a few days ago. I get limited much less and the code quality is similar, so not looking back”mpaepper, 2026-04-23original comment ↗
“Bugginess in the Claude Code CLI is the reason I switched from Claude Max to Codex Pro.”tlonny, 2026-04-09original comment ↗
“Not bad per se but a bit too locked in and when I was looking at the raw prompts it was sending down the wire it was also quite lets call it "opinionated".”Havoc, 2026-03-14original comment ↗
“I definitely see a lot of these anti-patterns in the code that CC writes. Many of these can be caught at the time the code is written without needing to wait for a PR…”read full quote
“I definitely see a lot of these anti-patterns in the code that CC writes. Many of these can be caught at the time the code is written without needing to wait for a PR review.”
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- Claude Code → GitHub Copilot (1 hacker)
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- GitHub Copilot → Claude Code (2 hackers)
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