Why hackers move from X to Y.
What developers say when they drop one tool for another, in their own words. Every quote links to the original comment.
454 X → Y moves · 722 tools · 1467 comments from 1317 hackers · latest comment 2026-11-02
Latest moves
“I moved from Claude Code to Codex for ROI and code quality reasons, and now I’m finding Cursor is even better for my coding stuff.”
7 hackers moved“I just switched from Claude to openAI.”
5 hackers moved“Recently ditched VSCODE completely and switched from development on local machine to remote "vps" cloud.”
5 hackers moved“I've mostly switched from Claude to Codex because I find the harness so buggy and annoying that I avoid it when I can.”
4 hackers moved“I switched from Claude code to pi about two months ago and can’t imagine having to go back.”
4 hackers moved“I switched due some iTerm2 bugs and performance reasons”
4 hackers moved“I switched from openAI to anthropic because OAI were the bigger clowns in the industry and didn't want to support them, anthropic…”
4 hackers moved“While I just switched from OpenCode to Pi, I'm still unclear on which is better in terms of handling github issues/pull-requests.”
4 hackers moved“I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours.”
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Most recommended
- 1 Claude 24 recommend 25 criticize
- 2 Codex 18 recommend 4 criticize
- 3 Claude Code 14 recommend 21 criticize
- 4 ChatGPT 13 recommend 9 criticize
- 5 Zed 12 recommend 2 criticize
- 6 Gemini 12 recommend 5 criticize
- 7 Firefox 11 recommend 10 criticize
- 8 Neovim 10 recommend 2 criticize
- 9 Pi 9 recommend 1 criticize
- 10 VS Code 8 recommend 14 criticize
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