Why hackers moved from OpenAI to Claude
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched from OpenAI to Anthropic over the weekend due to the OpenAI fiasco.”iso-logi, 2026-03-03original comment ↗
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OpenAI vs Claude
| OpenAI | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 1 | 24 |
| Hackers who criticize | 6 | 25 |
| Moved away from it | 6 | 13 |
| Moved to it | 1 | 11 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of OpenAI
“You don't want to call OpenAI GPT-6 and ask it to return your text with the SSN blanked out.”sroussey, 2026-09-29original comment ↗
“I switched from openAI to anthropic because OAI were the bigger clowns in the industry and didn't want to support them”ranguna, 2026-07-28original comment ↗
“I’m not going to use OpenAI products for these reasons among others.”dangus, 2026-05-30original comment ↗
“My entire company switched from open ai to entropic after the Department of War idiocy that happened a few weeks ago.”willio58, 2026-04-10original comment ↗
“I’m not sure how the OpenAI integration will work. I can see all sorts of red flags here.”mbreese, 2025-12-11original comment ↗
Praise for Claude
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Codex to Claude”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities”pid0x17, 2026-09-15original comment ↗
“claude was able to diagnose that the 2013 rail is around 11.44v (outside of the 10v range iirc)”jlawrence6809, 2026-09-02original comment ↗
“So far all the suggestion that Opus 5.0 offered me, always aligned with what i wanted.”benjiro29, 2026-08-13original comment ↗
Other moves from OpenAI
- OpenAI → Anthropic (4)
- OpenAI → GLM (1)