
What's great
I just use the free tier, for personal projects. Does everything I need, and more.
vs Alternatives
I've tried some alternatives like BitBucket, but keep coming back to Github.

What's great
I use Claude (on the web and mobile) and Claude Code every day, with great results. While I still use Gemini and (rarely) ChatGPT in parallel, Claude is my go-to now. It seamlessly goes back and forth between regular chat and deep research, is really good at web search, and returns nuanced, logical results, including telling me when I'm wrong. And Claude Code with Opus 4.5 (and now 4.6) handles everything I throw at it.
What needs improvement
Very little, TBH. The models themselves improve frequently, and the tooling improves rapidly. Especially Claude Code gets major new features on a weekly basis.
vs Alternatives
I used ChatGPT for years, Gemini for at least 1 year, and other tools. Claude has emerged as my go-to solution.

What's great
Some UI quirks and minor bugs, but very powerful overall. I really like how it handles implementation plans and walkthroughs. I think it will be great a couple months from now.
What needs improvement
Mostly needs some bugfixes and UI polish. E.g. sometimes one of the panels obscures an Accept/Reject button, so it's hard to see the app is waiting for user input. And when allowing certain commands, I haven't been able to make this stick yet. There's an allowlist for commands in the settings, but this doesn't seem to work for me.
vs Alternatives
Cursor never quite resonated with me, but I need to give it another shot. Claude Code is great with Opus 4.5, but way too expensive. Antigravity is very close to Claude Code, and as a paid Google AI Pro subscriber I haven't bumped into any limits yet. I actually like Copilot quite a bit as well.







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Github Copilot
Claude Code