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Ask HN: Is Claude Code good enough already?

7 points by calflegal ↗ HN
I've started to have a sneaking suspicion that claude code has already reached a key level of what I will call 'quite amazing'. When Google released Gemini 3 and Antigravity, I tried them out. They're good, great even. But, as a software dev, I'm back to trusty Claude Code. I really like it. More than anything, I really hope it can stay where it's at with performance and price and become profitable so that I'm allowed to keep it!

I don't particularly care about SWE bench or how much higher the next model scores on it. Perhaps that's not very futurist of me.

How do you feel about this?

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afspear
At this point, I'm not so concerned about the interface (claude code vs github copilot, etc, etc.) Sometimes I need to use one over the other because of...reasons. But I do seem to be coming back to the Anthropic models in particular. My rule of thumb is turning out to be:

1)How long is this taking? 2)Was it the right solution?

The first is pretty easy to get a feel for. The second is also a feeling I'm developing over time, but I am starting to trust the Anthropic models for all my coding.