I was pretty impressed with how they’ve improved user experience. If I had to guess, I’d say Anthropic has better product people who put more attention to detail in these areas.
What do you do to avoid that?
I’d use a fast model to create a minimal scaffold like gemini fast.
I’d create strict specs using a separate codex or claude subscription to have a generous remaining coding window and would start implementation + some high level tests feature by feature. Running out in 60 minutes is harder if you validate work. Running out in two hours for me is also hard as I keep breaks. With two subs you should be fine for a solid workday of well designed and reviewed system. If you use coderabbit or a separate review tool and feed back the reviews it is again something which doesn’t burn tokens so fast unless fully autonomous.
When reaching a limits, I switch to GLM 4.7 as part of a subscription GLM Coding Lite offered end 2025 $28/year. Also use it for compaction and the like to save tokens.
Btw. I trust Microsoft / GitHub to not train on my data more (with the Business license) than I would trust Antrophic.
I've seen these tools work for this kinda stuff sometimes... you'd think nobody would be better at it than the creators of the tools.