92 engineers on Hacker News describe using Claude Code first-hand: 40 endorse it, 13 regret it, 10 are mixed.
“I have personally been using the Claude Code Desktop App and was happy with it until they made it harder to pick a branch”
mixed · production · brabel · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I regret not making the switch sooner”
endorse · personal · senordevnyc · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We just recently use Claude Code to port an old Coldfusion site to Java Spring and it went amazingly well.”
endorse · production · linsomniac · 2026-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was surprised by the level of coordination they reached with very little guidance.”
endorse · personal · sybhn · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't like the structure that claude code sometimes comes up with, so I like starting it out and then it follows the pattern.”
mixed · personal · rovr138 · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Its way of working with git worktrees exclusively is something I was already doing in the Claude Code App, so I think they got this right.”
endorse · personal · brabel · 2026-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“been using claude code with omp and it makes such a difference”
endorse · personal · aryanthakor · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had no problem letting Claude code read iMessage and send iMessage from my Mac... its something I've been using a lot recently.”
endorse · personal · doctoboggan · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude Code/Codex has made my entire macOS environment as malleable as Emacs. That's huge!”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · GeneralMaximus · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“claude code helped me get access to the raw files from a scientific instrument we use in the lab all the time”
endorse · personal · Feuilles_Mortes · 2026-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in 20 minutes Claude Code + HF Cli recommended the best replacement small model”
endorse · personal · testycool · 2026-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If I ask Codex or Claude Code to build me an API endpoint that queries a database and returns JSON, including with tests, they're going to get that right.”
endorse · personal · simonw · 2026-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with Claude Code's help I managed to do it in a single afternoon.”
endorse · production · jonathanlydall · 2026-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“From there we used our agent skill to pull the analyses and pair them with Claude Code, and shipped a fix to our core logic.”
endorse · production · sailrock · 2026-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sometimes I even just point Claude Code / Codex at an open-source thing I want to vendor some functionality into my personal setup with and it gives me what I want.”
endorse · personal · arjie · 2026-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we quickly move to claude.ai/design for iteration and Claude Code to build. The code is the source of truth”
endorse · production · theanswa · 2026-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we switched to Claude Code, which for some reason prefers to use sed to read from files using line ranges”
regret · production · parasti · 2026-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one time I (foolishly) ran Claude Code on my server directly and it managed to completely bring down my entire elasticsearch cluster. never again.”
regret · personal · aspectrr · 2026-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would never trust it to design anything. Never again. But it can code pretty well given a very tight and limited scope.”
mixed · personal · jb1991 · 2026-05-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“hand it back to them with a Devcontainer and Claude Code so they can iterate on it themselves”
endorse · production · jeremyjh · 2026-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried using Claude Code's /plan mode but it's nowhere as rigorous, and there's still spec drift in the generated code.”
regret · personal · wenc · 2026-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude seems to be getting nerfed every week since we've switched.”
regret · production · 0.1 yr · zazibar · 2026-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I took its preliminary findings into Claude Code with the same model. But in mine it knows where every adjacent system is, the entire git history, deployment history”
endorse · production · hibikir · 2026-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude Code fails to install / initiate on Windows 10... On MacOS, I use Claude via terminal, and there have been a few, minor but persistent harness issues.”
mixed · personal · areoform · 2026-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our problems started when we moved to the claude code installer (it only affected the people who had updated) instead of using the npm version.”
regret · production · ojosilva · 2026-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Claude Code and Codex to do a proper, compliant port... Regardless, it was a great experience”
endorse · production · rozzie · 2026-03-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Getting it working in Claude Code was easy.”
endorse · personal · brian200 · 2026-03-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everyone had to use Claude Code, zero manual coding. This was agony to me, because I could see it making mistakes”
regret · production · sgarland · 2026-02-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some other projects that are done ~99% with Claude Code ... evolved to something that is best in class in their specific somewhat niche domains”
endorse · production · dgellow · 2026-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Before Claude Code, a full cloud migration could easily be a couple months. We migrated our whole stack to GCP in about a week.”
endorse · production · mfrye0 · 2026-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Claude Code, and it's been a relatively smooth transition from manual coding to GenAI agentic loops.”
endorse · production · lenerdenator · 2026-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OpenCode has LSPs out of the box (coming to Claude Code, but not there yet), has a more extensive UI”
regret · personal · atombender · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude code suffers from initial decision fatigue in my opinion.”
regret · personal · JoshGlazebrook · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can see Claude Code slowly degrading in quality every single day--and I use it every single day for many hours.”
regret · production · 1 yr · dnw · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I'm doing serious planned work aimed for production PRs, I have to use Claude.”
endorse · production · lmeyerov · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude Code daily for a few months now and I love it.”
endorse · personal · mbourmaud · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then ask Claude Code to do whatever I want. Good enough.”
mixed · personal · azuanrb · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for the last couple months. In many cases, it was superior... One thing about Claude Code, it delegates certain tasks to glm-4.5 air and that drops performance a ton.”
mixed · personal · csomar · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“definitely an improvement over the year I spent with Github CoPilot enabled on my personal projects”
endorse · personal · tracker1 · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude Code steers more towards a hands-off, vibe coding approach, which I often regret later.”
regret · personal · vanviegen · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Opus 4.5 running in Claude Code can pretty much run an experiment of this kind on its own, starting from a general idea.”
endorse · personal · killerstorm · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use claude code, running it inside a docker container (the project was already set up so that all the dev tools and server setup is in docker, making this easy)”
endorse · production · adzicg · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Claude Code and enjoy it.”
endorse · personal · jaigupta · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everything gets redrawn over and over again, forcing terminals that don't handle OSC10/11 codes properly to rescroll from the beginning”
regret · personal · vmitro · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when conversation goes above 200 messages and then uses sub agents leading to somehow infinite rerendering of the message timeline”
regret · personal · codegladiator · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am very thoroughly impressed with the results, it grew to a nearly 10k LOC in a week”
endorse · personal · neoromantique · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“lately I've been going all-in on Claude Code, using things like rules and subagents.”
endorse · personal · ianbicking · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we used Claude Code to write some backend services and some frontend modifications. Took 2 days of tinkering. Has easily saved that much time”
endorse · production · dismalpedigree · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work 60+ hours a week with Claude Code CLI... Nothing remotely close has ever happened. I have been using CC since research preview.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · strangescript · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Lately, I've been using Claude Code skills/plugins.”
endorse · personal · radio879 · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've only noticed Claude Code getting significantly better on each model release.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · SatvikBeri · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude code is extremely good at creating and maintaining solid, everyday code”
endorse · production · rtp4me · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Claude Code extensively on a side project... two weeks and three full rewrites later, I ended up with a list”
regret · personal · tobyhede · 2025-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Started on Claude Code and like many of you, had that omg CC moment we all had.”
endorse · personal · mmaunder · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“claude-code is the best, gemini is very close and might have a better interface”
endorse · personal · verdverm · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude Code correctly debugged an issue for me, that was seen in production, in a large product.”
endorse · production · YZF · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do also try and use Claude Code for certain tasks. More often than not, i regret it, but I've started to zero in on tasks it's helpful with”
mixed · personal · queenkjuul · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using Claude Code / Codex 4+ hours a day... I frequently see (both) agents make wrong assumptions that inevitably take multiple turns”
mixed · production · ewoodrich · 2025-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can't imagine being solo indie and not leaning hard into Codex, CC, or Composer at this point.”
endorse · personal · wahnfrieden · 2025-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For me, though, it's not remotely close. Codex has fucked up 95% of the 50-or-so tasks I asked it to do, while Claude Code fucks up only maybe 60%.”
mixed · personal · veidr · 2025-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a variety of tests through Claude Code and the OpenAI API... we've noticed just how volatile Claude Code's performance can be.”
mixed · production · rumble_poster · 2025-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started using Claude code (CC) a couple weeks back and have some very positive outcomes.”
endorse · production · rtp4me · 2025-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even crazier I can feed those sprints to Claude Code (CI/CD tests all running) and it will do a very good job of implementing.”
endorse · production · phyalow · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we recently cancelled a few seats on claude code / codex as we simply were underutilising.”
neutral · production · anonzzzies · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently switched to Claude Code.”
neutral · production · guhcampos · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with my vx-maintainer expert, codex, opencode and claude-code as harnesses.”
neutral · personal · poelzi · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the actual agents I use Claude Code for my Claude subscription”
neutral · personal · peepee1982 · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude Code for months and still don't get it”
neutral · personal · olalonde · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've done spec-driven development with Claude Code for almost all of the past year.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · amk9978 · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I bought a new machine, installed claude code and asked it to setup herdr.”
neutral · personal · drTobiasFunke · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For LLM stuff I've been using eca, or claude code in a vterm or ghostel.”
neutral · personal · 9999gold · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude Code to build an open source parser-based interactive fiction authoring platform.”
neutral · personal · ChicagoDave · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ghosty + ssh + mosh + tmux + claude code (sometimes codex) for a while now.”
neutral · personal · mkw5053 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we all use claude code, because it's easier for billing to just have one invoice and everyone using the same.”
neutral · production · oscarestudillom · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also use it daily on a production codebase... mostly via the autopilot pipeline.”
neutral · production · axledbetter01 · 2026-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Well, at least since I've been using Claude Code, which is this year.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · CPLX · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've mainly been using claude code and a bit of Gemini/Amp/Droid”
neutral · personal · sixhobbits · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using GLM in Claude code with Claude code router”
neutral · personal · andai · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using https://github.com/isaacphi/mcp-language-server to do pretty much the same thing for quite a while now in Claude code.”
neutral · personal · jwr · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“leaves Claude code with plenty of quota for significant tasks”
neutral · personal · ineedasername · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex in parallel for a while.”
neutral · production · qiakai · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've documented and shared some code repos that I use to manage concurrent AI agents (Claude Code in my case).”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · snapwich · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Codex CLI heavily after moving off Claude Code”
neutral · personal · kordlessagain · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Although still using Claude Code w/ Opus 4.5 for dev work.”
neutral · personal · bearjaws · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“so Claude Code can immediately run and interact with using curl, jq”
neutral · personal · rodphil · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a CLI that automates solving GitHub issues with Claude Code. ... Been using it on my own projects for a week.”
neutral · personal · 0.02 yr · mikeouroumis · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude and Claude Code almost daily for the past year”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · quietinnovator · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude Code + Opus for side projects.”
neutral · personal · giancarlostoro · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My favorite set of tools to use with Claude Code right now”
neutral · personal · jdelsman · 2025-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Claude Code in the way you described”
neutral · personal · Jimmc414 · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“built a Claude Code workflow that generates comprehensive API documentation from minimal .bru files.”
neutral · production · ashwch · 2025-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?