I took a 2 week break from AI stuff and loved Claude going into, and come back and see tons switching to codex or cursor or what have you. Can someone explain to me the rundown of events of what has happened?

I have been using Gemini 2.5 pro preview 05-06 and using the free credits because imma brokie and I have been having problems at coding that now matter what I do I can't solve and gets stuck so I ask Gemini to give me the problem of the summary paste it to Claude sonnet 4 chat and BOOM! it solves it in 1 go! And this happened already 3 times with no fail it's just makes me wish I can afford Claude but will just have to make do what I can afford for now. :)

I was doing some research and came across Claud AI, can anyone who has already used both Claud and ChatGPT tell me if it is better and how it differs from chatGPT?

I don't think I've ever seen a product degrade so fast on its customers as I'm seeing with Claude Code.

Two weeks ago this could solve very complex problems and now today it can't even correctly change colors of an app.

Very disappointing to see what anthropic is doing to their customers

Even though other companies have consistently surpassed Claude in programming rankings, Claude has always been the best

Been a ChatGPT pro user since atleast 7 months. Been using it every single day for coding and other business tasks. I feel a bit sad to say that it has lost is charm to a certain extent. It's not as powerful as I feel Claude is right now. I was not quickly impressed by the claims people were making about Claude but then I went ahead created an account and gave it a couple of problems ChatGPT was struggling with and it handled it with expertise which I instantly felt. Kept using it for a while and for the problems ChatGPT 4o was behaving like 3.5, it gave me solutions which were grounded and clear. Debugging is much more robust with Sonnet.

I hope ChatGPT gets its grip back as it has got more incentives for pro users but since last two days Claude helped me save a couple of hours. I have begun thinking about migration, atleast for a time being. Or keep pro for both tools.

Wanted to put it out there.

Edit: I just subscribed to Claude Pro. Keeping both subscriptions for now. I have a couple of ongoing projects and I believe I have a use case for both. With the limits removed, I have worked on Claude more than ChatGPT, it's not been too long though, around an hour.

I may edit this post again in near future with my findings and for others to decide.

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Edit: January 23rd, 2025.

It's been seven months since I first posted, which seems to rank high for Claude vs ChatGPT searches. I wanted to update on my journey as promised.

After switching from ChatGPT to Claude, I never looked back. My entire coding workflow shifted to Claude, specifically Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I started with Claude Chat directly, but when Cursor emerged, I tried it and found it to be the most efficient way to code using Sonnet. These days, I no longer maintain a Claude subscription and exclusively use Cursor.

I only resubscribed to ChatGPT last month (just one month and no more) for real-time voice chat (language learning). I still use it for basic tasks like grammar checks and searches - essentially as a replacement for Google and as a general AI assistant - but never for coding anymore.

For those finding this through Google: it's now well-established in the dev community that Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the most capable and intelligent coding LLM. Cursor's initial popularity was tied to Claude, but it has evolved into a powerful IDE with features like agent composer and much more.

For non-coders: Claude 3.5 Sonnet is, in my opinion, a far more intelligent and precise tool than GPT-4o and even o1. While I can't list all examples here, for every single non-coding task I've given it, I've received more refined, crafted, and precise responses.

This shift was a game-changer for my productivity and business gains. To tech founders and small teams building products: unless ChatGPT specifically fits your coding needs, consider switching to Cursor. It has literally transformed my business and boosted profits significantly. Grateful to the Claude team for their work.

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Edit: Aug 20, 2025

Almost 6 months after writing the above, I want to update that I'm no longer using Cursor as my IDE, it's Claude Code now. This shift happened almost suddenly in June. Twitter was abuzz about Claude Code being much more powerful than Cursor, but I was reluctant since it's never easy to change your coding environment. But one night I thought, let me ask Claude Code to fix this issue I've been struggling with in Cursor. I loaded up $5 in my Anthropic dashboard, logged into my account with CC, and asked it to figure it out. And man, it was a breath of fresh air. It implemented such an elegant solution that Cursor wouldn't even come close to.

Now here's the kicker, in Cursor I was using the exact same model I used in CC: Sonnet 4. But as most devs know, Cursor uses various approaches to wrap, summarize, RAG and all that complex stuff. This, as many have experienced, ends up dumbing it down considerably. After this incident, I knew there was no going back. Especially when I discovered that you can use the same $20 subscription for both Claude web and Code.

So yeah, Claude Code is my main coding (and general) assistant now. I do use Claude web periodically, but with MCP support and other neat features in CC, it feels like it lives right in your machine rather than having to jump to a browser. And let me emphasize, it is significantly better than Cursor.

About GPT-5? Let me be brutally honest: it's disappointing. Doesn't come close to Claude. It's certainly better than GPT-4, but it feels like it's trying to be clever and intelligent without actually being so. On several occasions it gave me these polished-looking answers that turned out to be completely wrong. It also struggles to follow conversational context. I do use it regularly as a souped-up web search replacement, so it has its place. But the hype? Pure fluff.

Claude has been objectively dumbified. In order to prove it, you only need to checkout previous branches of features you coded with CC; reset them; use the same prompts, and try to code them again with Claude. It will produce a lot more bugs than before. (and, in my case, it completely failed to build the feature it had built before, even after many iterations).

TL;DR: if you're considering buying the max subscription, I do not recommend buying it just yet. Wait until Anthropic can properly handle the increased traffic, and restore Claude back to its previous performance levels.

>> Come at me, Claude glazers, bots and virtual d riders.

I've been using the pro max 20x subscription for the last three months. I'm using both Claude Code and the regular UI interface to code, produce documentation, and debate coding solutions.

About a week ago, I started running into more and more bugs, and less and less quality responses from Claude, to the point that it started to look stupid and frustrating, and I found myself investing more time correcting it and debugging stupid bugs, than actually shipping features - the classical case of decreasing productivity for actual software engineers, where the only usefulness of an llm is to be used as snippet code producer and syntax Q&A.

I decided to objectively test Claude out, and went back to previous implemented feature branch, reset it to its starting point, got the prompts back (i have a gemini gem that i use to re-prompt engineer all my prompts before submitting them to claude, so getting all the prompts that i used to develop that feature was not hard at all: i just had to visit my gemini's history), and tried to fed the prompts, by the same order as before, to CC. Result: couldn't even get through the third prompt (~20% of the feature), since it produced much buggier code than before; i reset the branch, opened a new instance of CC, and tried again - only for it to produce bugs it hadn't produced before; i tried a thrid time, and the same thing happened.

It's objectively dumbified. the upvotes and downvotes in this subreddit are hilariously skewed by anthropic bots, and claude glazer that behave like religious fanatics.

Btw, I'm a claude fan; just not a fan of this version of claude, and the gaslighting, bot-based tactics employed by Anthropic. They should be transparent and honest about it.

EDIT: Anthropic finally admitted to having servers under strain, and actively trying to improve their infrastructure. In this post they addressed the limit rates that people also have been complaining about for the last week: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1m2gv92/weve_increased_api_rate_limits_for_claude_sonnet/

Hopefully, they'll also fix the reasoning skills soon. Once again: GASLIGHTING your own paying audience IS BAD! BE OPEN AND HONEST ABOUT IT, SO THAT PEOPLE WHO RELY ON YOUR PRODUCT ADJUST ACCORDINGLY, you greedy bastards !!!

I have been using Claude for the last two days and I'm impressed! Thinking of buying the Pro subscription, but before that I need to confirm whether Claude is the best AI Code Assist available right now.

The 200k context window is deflating especially when gpt and gemini are eating them for lunch. Even if they went to 500k would be better.

Benchmarks at this point in the A.I game are negligible at best and you sure don't "Feel" a 1% difference between the 3. It feels like we are getting to the point of diminishing returns.

Us as programmers should be able to see the forest from the trees here. We think differently than the normal person. We think outside of the box. We don't get caught in hype as we exist in the realm of research, facts and practicality.

This Claude release is more hype than practical.

I am listening to an interview at the moment with the developer who kicked off the claude code project internally (agentic SWE tool). He was asked how much of the code was actually generated by claude code itself and provided a pretty surprising number. Granted, humans still did the directing and definitely reviewed the code, but that is pretty wild.

If we look ahead a couple of years, it seems very plausible that these agents will be writing close to 99% of their own code, with humans providing the direction rather than jumping in - doing line-by-line work. Autonomous ML research agents are definitely fascinating and will be great, but these types of SWE agents (cline/CC/windsurf/etc), that are able to indefinitely build and improve themselves should lead to great gains for us as well.

I'd imagine this will be quite a contrast to these posts from 2023 and 2024:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/18ds9ke/does_your_company_pay_for_your_chatgpt/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1cy06us/ai_will_replace_us_all_but_in_the_meantime_my/

What a difference a day makes.

I created a project and started working on implementing some new features. Had Claude give me a simple sheet with some data to appear when a user wins - nothing complicated, and he cranked it right out. Then I asked him to insert it where it belonged in the navigation. A handful of updates to a single file.

And THAT is where everything fell apart. All of a sudden, he’s lost the ability to see whole files; he can only search and bring back fragments. At this point, he can’t even perform the most basic of assistance.

The AI was fine yesterday; today he’s suddenly limited to snippets and fragments of code that he searches. And I’m on the Max Plan too.

What did I miss? Did they run some kind of update overnight that destroyed the platform?

I’m DONE with Claude Code and just cancelled my MAX subscription. It has gone completely brain-dead over the past week. Simple tasks? Broken. Useful code? LOL, good luck. I’ve wasted HOURS fixing its garbage or getting nothing at all. I even started from scratch, thinking the bloated codebase might be the issue - but even in a clean, minimal project, tiny features that used to take a single prompt and ten minutes now drag on for hours, only to produce broken, unusable code.

What the hell happened to it? I’m paying for this crap and getting WORSE results than free tier tools from a year ago.

I srsly need something that works. Not half-assed or hallucinating nonsense. Just clean, working code from decent prompts. What’s actually good right now?

Please save me before I lose my mind.

I mean how the heck literally Is Qwen-3 better than claude-4(the Claude who used to dog walk everyone). this is just disappointing 🫠