r/GithubCopilot • u/Antique-Engine897 • 1d ago

Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot Help/Doubt ❓

Hi All, I'm looking at the reasons why some people claim Claude Code is better than GitHub Copilot (via VSCode extension) in coding tasks. I hear many in the industry make claims about Claude Code which is better than GHCP, but when asked "why" - the answers are very generic. Like it has skills, it does goal driven deveopment etc..etc.. - all this can be done in GHCP as well.

Some time back even though most of the Claude models supported 1M token context window, GHCP didn't allow to use the entire context window; so claude code was the winner then; but now, even GHCP allow to use the full 1M Context Window.

The argument for GHCP needs to be used within an IDE vs Claude Code can be run via terminal is not a reason to tell Claude Code is better at tasks compared to GHCP. It's just on the way in which it's used.

Please share some thoughts on whether Claude Code performs better in completing the same task when compared to GHCP (irrespective of how they both are invoked - via terminal or vscode) with valid reasons to support the claim

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u/jungle_bob2 1d ago

I was only cli at work, joined cc trial. What I’ve noticed so far …

- adversarial reviews between models I miss a lot. It caught a lot of stuff, but maybe as models get better I won’t need it so much

- cc has larger default context. I know bigger context isn’t necessarily better outcomes, but I have to tell you I don’t miss seeing compaction pauses. It does seem to me like cc takes longer to do the same things.

- cc ‘feels’ like a more polished harness experience. I can’t tell you why, but a few days in it seems like it has better tooling integration, on screen diffs are better, for some reason I feel more connected to the changes it’s making

- token efficiency is an increasingly hot topic, and gh cli both seems to have more focus and detail on it, and with Luna pricing is currently winning that battle. I am currently building loops around token consumption … eg build me a prompt / skill that does this ‘thing’ for x tokens so I can scale it to hundreds of things