I was very skeptical about anything not OpenAI for a while, and then discovered Claude code, Anthropic blogposts, etc. It's basically the coolest company in the field.

Claude Code and its ecosystem is what made me pick Anthropic over OpenAI for our engineers, when we decided to do seat licensing for everyone last week.

It's a huge asset.

I appreciate Claude not training on my data by default. ChatGPT through the browser does not give you that option.

Same here. Until I read more about them and actually seem sketchy too. All about “safety” reasons not to do certain things.