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Comment by bogdanoff_2 | Hacker News Reader

To all the people in the HN comments saying negative things about Claude: why don't you just use other models instead?

Work only allows the tools they buy. So at least for me, I am stuck with Claude. At home for personal projects I am a fan of DeepSeek v4 Flash.

Claude is all we have at $work, if you don’t count MS Copilot (and you shouldn’t count MS Copilot).

Imagine being “incentivized” to aggressively use a tool for your job, and that tool produces thousands of lines of text in Olde English which you need. You’d be griping too, methinks.

Copilot is fine? Just use it through whatever harness you want like OpenCode.

I think you are referring to GitHub Copilot, which is fine (even though their context windows are artificially truncated and their dev tooling leaves a lot to be desired). I was making fun of the Copilot that’s shipped with MS stack. “Hey summarize my Teams meetings and try not to fuck that up too badly” - that one.

For me, there are two reasons: it’s what my work provides, and for some tasks, I want the absolute best model for coding.

Having said that, I just subscribed to ChatGPT yesterday, as I've become impatient with Claude for a text-dense project I'm working on.

Anthropic has done their utmost to put Claude front and centre for professionals in multiple industries. This includes extremely tedious marketing campaigns. I'm sure they can handle a few negative comments from people they've snared, by hook or by crook.

Don't much care for the misdeeds of the alternative

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