Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
by Anon84 on 2/2/2026, 11:58:58 AM
https://www.theverge.com/tech/865689/microsoft-claude-code-anthropic-partnership-notepad
Comments
by: phito
Well yeah, it is just better. At my work we have a copilot license, but we use it to access Claude Sonnet/Opus model in OpenCode.
2/2/2026, 12:22:10 PM
by: onion2k
Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to "<i>1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.</i>" You can't do that if you write the code yourself. That means they'll always be chasing the best model. Right now, that's Opus 4.5.
2/2/2026, 12:38:58 PM
by: kcb
And probably running on their macbooks...
2/2/2026, 1:17:49 PM
by: andyjohnson0
<a href="https://archive.ph/vc3Cn" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/vc3Cn</a>
2/2/2026, 12:20:08 PM
by: fastThinking
So Copilot is for customers, Claude is for getting actual work done?
2/2/2026, 12:42:28 PM
by: dataviz1000
I installed Claude Code yesterday after the quality of VSCode Copilot Chat continuously is getting worse every release. I can't tell yet if Claude Code is better or not but VSCode Copilot Chat has become completely unusable. It would start making mistakes which would double the requests to Claude Opus 4.5 which in January is the only model that would work at all. I spent $400 in tokens in January.<p>I'll know better in a week. Hopefully I can get better results with the $200 a month plan.
2/2/2026, 12:44:31 PM
by: bakugo
Explains why Windows updates have been more broken than usual lately.<p>But I guess having my computer randomly stop working because a billion dollar corporation needs to save money by using a shitty text generation algorithm to write code instead of hiring competent programmers is just the new normal now.
2/2/2026, 12:49:43 PM
by: pjmlp
That isn't going well for Satya.
2/2/2026, 1:13:42 PM
by: dude250711
We can certainly see, every Windows update requires flipping a coin now.
2/2/2026, 12:33:53 PM
by: oefrha
I try GitHub Copilot every once in a while, and just last month it still managed to produce diffs with unbalanced curly braces, or tried to insert (what should be) a top-level function into the middle of another function and screw up everything. This wasn’t on a free model like GPT 4.1 or 5-mini, IIRC it was 5.2 Codex. What the actual fuck? Only explanation I can come up with is that their pay-per-request model made GHC really stingy with using tokens for context, even when you explicitly ask it to read certain files it ends up grepping and adding a couple lines.
2/2/2026, 1:14:41 PM
by: fragmede
32 comments and no mention of codex or windsurf or cursor.
2/2/2026, 1:19:09 PM
by: lloydatkinson
I have found that Claude Code is better in every way I've used it. I like to use LLM's just as an advanced refactoring tool, especially where plain string search isn't enough. Anyway, my first experience of Copilot was it plainly lying that it deleted files I asked it to, and it insisted the file no longer existed (it did).<p>The difference between the two is stark.
2/2/2026, 12:41:12 PM