Why hackers moved from Claude to ChatGPT
5 hackers described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I just switched from Claude to openAI.”declan_roberts, 2026-09-22original comment ↗
“For non-coding LLM use cases ChatGPT is what I subscribe to now after I cancelled my Claude subscription because it found tge responses verbose, condescending.”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“I switched from claude to gpt when 5.6 came out for the same reasons.”justinbaker84, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“I hit this feeling with Claude one too many times and switched from Anthropic Pro to OpenAI Pro.”ferris-booler, 2026-08-10original comment ↗
“I switched from Opus 4.6 -> Opus 4.7 -> GPT 5.5 and tried Flash 3.5 tonight”kaspermarstal, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
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Claude vs ChatGPT
| Claude | ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 24 | 13 |
| Hackers who criticize | 25 | 9 |
| Moved away from it | 13 | 6 |
| Moved to it | 11 | 6 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Claude
“But yet they can afford to pay Anthropic $200/mo forever?”lrvick, 2026-10-30original comment ↗
“I've mostly switched from Claude to Codex because I find the harness so buggy and annoying that I avoid it when I can.”overgard, 2026-10-14original comment ↗
“at the end both models swore that the code is perfect and well designed and nothing is lacking.”username_my1, 2026-09-28original comment ↗
“Anthropic has really lost the plot even in user-facing output.”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I switched from Claude to Codex because Claude just doesn't do what you actually tell it to half the time.”coderenegade, 2026-09-12original comment ↗
Praise for ChatGPT
“it can synthesize things I've said before in passing to show patterns over time, which is the killer app”satvikpendem, 2026-10-30original comment ↗
“GPT 6 (can't remember if it was Sol or Astra) and Fable 5.1 both recommended FaaS like Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda which fit fairly well with the requirements.”nijave, 2026-09-26original comment ↗
“Prior to AI being good enough to do this on its own, I used Canva, and before that it was Photoshop”al_borland, 2026-08-25original comment ↗
“It is better at following instructions and boundaries set during prompt.”m3h, 2026-06-30original comment ↗
“Claude has taken lead in coding task but GPT 5.5 has come stronger.”kramit1288, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
Other moves from Claude
Other moves to ChatGPT
- Canva → ChatGPT (1)