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Why not? You can select Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, and others.

Claude Code is a CLI tool which means it can do complete projects in a single command. Also has fantastic tools for scaffolding and harnessing the code. You can define everything from your coding style to specific instructions for designing frontpages, integrating payments, etc.

It's not about the model. It's about the harness

This would make some sense if VS Code didn't have a terminal built into it. The LLMs have the same bash capabilities in either form.

Claude Code is a CLI tool which means it can do complete projects in a single command

https://github.com/features/copilot/cli/

Huh? There is nothing stopping copilot from doing an entire project in one go.

Ive done it 10s of times.

"Copilot has done 10 tool calls, do you want to continue" or whatever was the bane of my existence before our company approved Claude for use.

Like I asked you to do this task, then you spent time looking around and now want me to pat you on the back so you can continue?

The model is the engine, the framework is the rest of the car.

With Copilot Microsoft has basically put the meanest leanest triple-turbo'd V8 engine in a rickety 80's soviet car.

You can kinda drive it fast in a straight line if you're careful, but you can also crash and burn really hard.

it's not a model limit anymore, it's tools , skills, background agents, etc. It's an entire agentic environment.

Github copilot has support for this stuff as well. Agent skills, background/subagents, etc.

Implementation differences do matter. I haven't found Copilot to have as many issues as people say it does, but they are there. Their Gemini implementation is unusable, for example, and it's not because of the underlying models. They work fine in other harnesses.

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