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by Anthropic
Who uses, recommends or left Claude, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
10 people
That said, the last six months I’ve been primarily using Claude. I’ve been really happy with it.
His annual post locking in the tools he will use for the coming year, app by app, with the reasoning for each choice.
2026-01-31·macsparky.com ↗
What amazes me about these interactions is not just that Claude could help me solve the problems, but how it walked me through the process, explaining each step.
A long post walking through how he actually uses large language models day to day as a solo software founder.
2024-09-20·thebootstrappedfounder.com ↗
Super cool way to use Claude https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
2026-09-14·x.com ↗
But Claude isn’t just a replacement-level SwiftUI developer. Claude is actually good.
Post about building a personal macOS Markdown viewer with an agent, and what Emacs culture predicts about that.
2026-05-12·sockpuppet.org ↗
So, for most people, just stick with Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT
His periodic guide to which AI system a general reader should pick and how to use it.
2025-06-23·oneusefulthing.org ↗
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate
A post on running two AI coding agents side by side.
2026-07-25·x.com ↗
I’m going to be speaking about Claude directly, because it’s the tool I use the most, but a lot of this should apply to other platforms as well.
Opening of his guide to getting started with Claude for software development.
2026-01-07·steveklabnik.com ↗
Claude is currently my main AI tool. I use the Claude desktop app, and Claude Code via Opencode.
His post "Uses (September 2025)", listing the tools, services and equipment he uses day to day.
2025-09-06·duncanmcclean.com ↗
Claude's performative "this request was sooo dangerous that we downgraded to Opus" is wearing me down I ask it straightfoward questions, nothing shady, nothing complicated, and it tells me it's too dangerous for Fable. What BS.
2026-09-13·x.com ↗
I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright
Complaining that Claude's safety guardrails refuse benign requests.
2026-08-31·x.com ↗
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