That's a similar story for me at $DAYJOB. We have copilot for our IDEs and it is so much worse than Claude code or any other CLI integration option. We're so restricted on adopting the features as fast as they are turned on. I try to use it during the day and end up frustrated that the agent mode is restricted and returns "I can't complete that for you" or something similar when asking for pretty reasonable actions.

I've been cranking out personal apps with Claude Code in contrast and my brain is exploding with ideas for day job, but this is such an organic space that the speed that corporations move at they are using the cool tool from last year has left me demoing personal work to coworkers and hoping that starts to move the needle on getting better tooling. I understand the governance and privacy concerns for $DAYJOB, and as such every tool needs to get approved by a slow human process.

We also have OpenAI access and I have found myself using that for research more so than copilot as well, maybe we just picked the worst tool because of that MS vertical integration...

All I have is copilot as well, but with that I can configure Aider to use the copilot openai endpoint, and through that access most of the good models with a capable CLI tool. It’s a pair-programming experience more than an agentic one but I need to stay close to the code anyway.