103 engineers on Hacker News describe using Claude first-hand: 40 endorse it, 10 regret it, 13 are mixed.
“you cannot access their inference servers without going through their client software or paying the API pricing. It is really annoying”
regret · personal · thibsrn · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Claude Opus 5.5 for particular tasks that justifies its cost... Opus 5.5 is still a great workhorse as of today.”
endorse · production · reacharavindh · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“claude can fully drive the ui and testing on the phones via adb as an example”
endorse · production · 1 yr · BatteryMountain · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't seen any increase in safeguards triggering or any negative effects in how quickly agents are able to make progress”
endorse · personal · pierrekin · 2026-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude on a very large Java protocol proxy product and it's been able to do amazingly useful things for me.”
endorse · production · dboreham · 2026-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For Claude it took 10 minutes to solve it.”
endorse · production · zsoltkacsandi · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“those choices are already been made implicitly by Claude, and while it give you the impression that you understand the codebase”
mixed · production · mablopoule · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“anthropics' models outperform the output consistently but for 20x or more of the price of Mistral”
endorse · personal · berkes · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We still have subs because its nice to have something that works when Claude doesn't, it was already approved”
mixed · production · jeremyjh · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the harness of guidelines I've been using recently make Claude not produce _complete_ garbage”
mixed · personal · pscanf · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This has been working very well mainly thanks to the prompts and docs we made it read”
endorse · production · Roark66 · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've spent more money on Claude this year than I've given to a lot of other tech companies, combined.”
endorse · production · josephg · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The flexibility of being able to change anything at any time so I can see what I want to see is really nice.”
endorse · personal · deepsquirrelnet · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After about 30 minutes I hit a 5 hour limit. The next day I tried again and the same thing happened. And it felt much slower to boot.”
regret · personal · LeFantome · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude has also been helping a lot with Windows, sifting through voluminous system logs”
endorse · personal · leptons · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Deepseek can do 90% of the job but a claude reviwer/spec writer is a brutal improvement.”
endorse · production · mlcruz · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“AI has been a big help to me in writing it”
endorse · personal · bartleeanderson · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Some copypasta/context I often feed it is that I am the only user, no production data exists”
mixed · personal · fluidcruft · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude was able to troubleshoot it all. Would have taken me a bunch of time to untangle it myself.”
endorse · personal · vondur · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The value Anthropic's Team Premium seat (which we use) provides is so disproportionate to its cost that I don't understand why they don't raise the price.”
endorse · production · InsideOutSanta · 2026-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still have way too many vibe coded tests that passes and break in production despite they should have failed but Claude fixed the test by mocking the test to pass.”
regret · production · motbus3 · 2026-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my company using Codex and Claude help us a lot with our software.”
endorse · production · testerius · 2026-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is one place where LLMs have truly helped out with testing.”
endorse · production · gvsg · 2026-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“sometimes Claude made it faster by incurring expensive costs, or doing a migration that would be risky in prod”
mixed · personal · SpicyLemonZest · 2026-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A year and a half ago it took our dev maybe six weeks of struggling with LangChain to approximate what Claude + MCP server can do today.”
endorse · production · hadlock · 2026-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If it wasn't for Claude assistance I probably would have given up on it by now.”
endorse · personal · VladVladikoff · 2026-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude will make mistakes but they're largely "reasonable". In some ways that's worse as they're more believable.”
mixed · personal · sandcat_ · 2026-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The worst part of Claude is paying for it and every month they ruin their lead.”
regret · personal · Larrikin · 2026-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a Claude for planning and generation... Our metrics say we are about 2x. Productive, at a cost of about $300 per dev per month.”
endorse · production · K0balt · 2026-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a Claude for planning and generation, sol for adversarial review. Our metrics say we are about 2x. Productive”
endorse · production · K0balt · 2026-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Preference is Claude Opus and Codex whatever the latest model is.”
endorse · production · thraway3837 · 2026-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I saturated 7 accounts the last 2h alone, it's because they haven't entirely rethought their workflows yet”
endorse · personal · pixel_popping · 2026-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude recommended this once and it worked great.”
endorse · personal · tim-tday · 2026-06-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have now used Claude - still using it sparingly - to implement features in much less time than I'd need myself”
endorse · personal · ACS_Solver · 2026-04-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Claude a lot for a few sociological experiments and I've noticed that token consumption has increased exponentially in the past 3 weeks.”
mixed · personal · areoform · 2026-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using sqlx + postgres very successfully with claude in the last couple of months.”
endorse · personal · kykat · 2026-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude.ai web, mobile, and Desktop? Much harder, because of auth.”
regret · personal · brian200 · 2026-03-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They are pretty good at writing code after I thoroughly described what to do, step by step. If you miss a small detail they get loose”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · zsoltkacsandi · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude is better at interactive develop-test-iterate because it's much faster to get a useful response, but it isn't as thorough”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · baq · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Anthropic Max for most of this year after checking out some of these other models, it is clearly overpriced”
regret · personal · skippyboxedhero · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Claude Opus 4.5, and it's the best out of the models I have tried.”
endorse · personal · vivin · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been very impressed with Claude 4.5 and have been using it daily at work.”
endorse · production · diamondap · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since I've been using Claude I've learned a lot about Rust by having it build things for me”
endorse · personal · kevin42 · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The primary limiter for our firm's wholesale adoption of Anthropic are their monthly caps. The business accounts have a cap!”
regret · production · Terretta · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use both Claude and Codex on a fairly large ~10-years old Java project”
mixed · production · mazswojejzony · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've noticed a tendency for it to create tests that prove themselves... I much prefer it over writing tests manually, but you have to be very careful.”
mixed · production · SketchySeaBeast · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude and Codex to create bespoke systemd services for my random tools”
endorse · personal · ewoodrich · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude constantly tried to use it to debug issues so I gave in and had it write a pretty basic one.”
mixed · personal · UncleEntity · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a simple Claude prompt to review team PRs... it's been really solid so far.”
endorse · production · CodingJeebus · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was willing to pay the $20 out of my own pocket to keep using it for work tasks. That forced me to rethink my stance.”
endorse · production · chasd00 · 2025-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has worked out splendidly so far, my regrettable dumping of that huge PR on OCaml maintainers notwithstanding.”
endorse · personal · joelreymont · 2025-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run all our PRs through automated (claude) reviews automatically, and it helps a LOT.”
endorse · production · stickfigure · 2025-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've run out of context window space. Despite my best efforts to write good /compact instructions, when it's ready to roll again some of the nuance is lost and the implementation suffers.”
regret · personal · agotterer · 2025-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude tended to mock everything because it didn't have context about how we run services, build environments, etc.”
regret · production · diwank · 2025-06-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude 3.7 not only found the correct issue with first answer (after thinking 39 seconds)”
endorse · personal · Uninen · 2025-02-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switch between Claude and Gemini Flash, using Claude for more complicated tasks.”
endorse · personal · gman83 · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For my team which is software development, we favour Claude. It's obviously rather anecdotal but it has been much better at Go than ChatGPT.”
endorse · production · devjab · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Claude for writing code but GPT-4o for answering coding related questions, because I noticed that ChatGPT is much less prone to hallucinations than Claude is.”
mixed · personal · mike_hearn · 2024-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With Claude on Bedrock I can use LLMs in production without sending customer data to the US.”
endorse · production · reubenmorais · 2024-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Also, Claude is magnitudes superior to ChatGPT anything.”
endorse · personal · written-beyond · 2024-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found Anthropic's Claude quite useful (Sonnet 3.5) when I had to work on a legacy code base”
endorse · production · chilldsgn · 2024-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we were super frustrated with Claude on our team, having been on it for months”
regret · production · yinser · 2023-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have happily been using Claude Instant in production for a couple of months now”
endorse · production · 0.2 yr · tarvaina · 2023-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude to answer more code related things if they come up.”
neutral · personal · einhard · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This allows us to use several different model families through Claude, cursor and codex without having to copy paste everywhere.”
neutral · production · naw103 · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work I use Zed with a corporate claude subscription and it's a good setup.”
neutral · production · grep_name · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced it with an in-house CLI, docs, and a password manager, all driven by Claude”
neutral · production · aluxian · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had to go to Claude a couple times when it got stuck on something curly”
neutral · personal · trog · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes, Claude + skills is what we use too.”
neutral · production · abirch · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“so it goes claude ( with style guide) -> voice judge with argon -> claude adjusts.”
neutral · personal · ipkstef · 2026-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Claude and ChatGPT all the time for work”
neutral · production · yisraelgottz · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since the release of Fable I've been using Claude and OpenAI to try to tackle these open problems”
neutral · personal · creilly11235 · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Openrouter for API calls and Claude Max200 for CLI coding.”
neutral · personal · schmookeeg · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Lately I've been using a scratch Python file (or even a scratch repo) that Claude and I both edit.”
neutral · personal · davepeck · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“tell claude that he is free to take over that session with a given name.”
neutral · personal · littlecranky67 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we started using Claude at my work, it wasn't just with Anthropic-hosted instances of the service.”
neutral · production · lenerdenator · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 and literally find no reason at all”
neutral · personal · fantasticwaddle · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“primarily use Claude and antigravity”
neutral · production · harshalizee · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So we use ChatGPT or Claude, with extremely limited access to the tiny little shortcuts that stack up”
neutral · personal · tkdb · 2026-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude will automatically know to use that without invoking a skill.”
neutral · production · dmix · 2026-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I made claude rewrite the OOXML to behave, but that's an absurd thing to need to do!”
neutral · personal · mangecoeur · 2026-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use all 3 pro then either chat or claude will have a 5x max depending if they're the good thing to be using”
neutral · personal · irjustin · 2026-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think we spent $10k in claude credits and did the entire mypy -> ty refactor”
neutral · production · Syntaf · 2026-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a "context" repository that enables us to transition pretty seamlessly from model to model (usually codex to claude and back).”
neutral · production · NichoPaolucci · 2026-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Pro professionally and didn't hit limits most of the time.”
neutral · production · atraac · 2026-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens.”
neutral · production · 0.1 yr · zazibar · 2026-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to Claude a few months ago, mostly because the devs kept using it anyway.”
neutral · production · ATMLOTTOBEER · 2026-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every single bead (epic, ticket) and every single line of code has been written by AI (using a mix of claude, codex, cursor-agent/composer-1).”
neutral · personal · rahimnathwani · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Warning: Opus 4.5 did most of the work (but we use this in prod)”
neutral · production · dangoodmanUT · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I connected Claude to RecallBricks via MCP. Claude now retains memory across the entire multi-month build of RecallBricks itself.”
neutral · personal · tylerrecall · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used claude in the weekend to make a prototype”
neutral · personal · iparaskev · 2025-12-15 · 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?“The logger library which Claude created is actually pretty simple, highly approachable code”
neutral · personal · bikeshaving · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Claude Max with UE5 and while it isn't _brilliant_ with shaders I can usually get it to where I want.”
neutral · personal · nineteen999 · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched off per-token this week because we ran out of anthropic credits, we're on max plan now”
neutral · production · dhorthy · 2025-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I currently use Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, i even tried DeepSeek”
neutral · personal · fpia · 2025-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We integrated GPT-4.1 and Claude for content and semantic understanding”
neutral · production · buzzbyjool · 2025-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That so weird, it's seems like everybody here prefers Claude. I've been using Claude and openai in copilot”
neutral · personal · h_tbob · 2024-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using it for the past few hours with no issues.”
neutral · personal · jscottbee · 2024-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it with xml files recently (iOS storyboard files), and it seems to do pretty well”
neutral · personal · WhitneyLand · 2024-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Claude's batch API to filter down the dictionary to words that are commonly known.”
neutral · personal · friggeri · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“over our previous use of Mistral/Claude/OpenAI”
neutral · production · ivorbuk · 2024-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's a regular part of our testing when we build new features with LLMs.”
neutral · personal · phillipcarter · 2023-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?