I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong. I was using Sonnet 4 with GitHub Copilot. Recently a week ago switched to Claude Code. I find GitHub Copilot solves problem and bugs way better than Claude Code. For some reason, Claude Code seems very lazy. Has anyone experience something similar?

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riazrizvi 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I use ChatGPT, and I have used Claude several times. I’ve not found Claude to be better. I’ve come to the conclusion that all these posts asking why Claude is so good at coding, are all part of some marketing approach. I think it’s tied to how Claude prefers to hook into repos, I think maybe it’s tied to a business strategy of acquiring a mega code dataset. So they are especially motivated to push this narrative vs say OpenAI or other players.

(I don’t use any clients that answer coding questions by using the context of my repos).

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tcoff91 3 days ago | parent [-]

If you aren’t using a client that automatically uses the context of your repos then you don’t understand why people like Claude. You need to use the Claude Code CLI in order to really get the best results.

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riazrizvi 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I’m not in the market for a solution where I need to trust some company with my IP. I understand that Claude also wants to serve my use case, so I take these headlines at face value as also applying to me, since they don’t qualify themselves with ‘Claude Code CLI’.

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tcoff91 2 days ago | parent [-]

‘Claude Code’ refers to the CLI.

	▲	riazrizvi 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh. I stand corrected.

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libraryofbabel 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The consensus is the opposite: most people find copilot does less well than Claude with both using sonnet 4. Without discounting your experience, you’ll need to give us more detail about what exactly you were trying to do (what problem, what prompt) and what you mean by “lazy” if you want any meaningful advice though.

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sojournerc 4 days ago | parent [-]

Where do you find this "consensus"?

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rsanek 4 days ago | parent [-]

read HN threads, talk to people using AI alot. I have the same perception

	▲	sojournerc 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Got it, anecdata.

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StephenAshmore 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It may be a configuration thing. I've found quite the opposite. Github Copilot using Sonnet 4 will not manage context very well, quite frequently resorting to running terminal commands to search for code even when I gave it the exact file it's looking for in the copilot context. Claude code, for me, is usually much smarter when it comes to reading code and then applying changes across a lot of files. I also have it integrated into the IDE so it can make visual changes in the editor similar to GitHub Copilot.

	▲	syntaxing 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I do agree with you, Github Copilot uses more tokens like you mentioned with redundant searches. But at the end of the day, it solves the problem. Not sure if the cost out weights the benefit though compared to Claude Claude. Going to try Claude Code more and see if I'm prompting it incorrectly.

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cosmic_cheese 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I haven’t tried other LLMs but have a fair amount of experience with Claude Code, and there definitely times when you have to be explicit about the route you want it to take and tell it to not take shortcuts.

It’s not consistent, though. I haven’t figured out what they are but it feels like there are circumstances where it’s more prone to doing ugly hacky things.

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wordofx 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have most of the tools setup so I can switch between them and test which is better. So far Amp and Claude Code are on top. GH Copilot is the worst. I know MS is desperately trying to copy its competitors but the reality is, they are just copying features. They haven’t solved the system prompts. So the outcomes are just inferior.