In this video I break down Claude vs ChatGPT specifically for programming, because I genuinely use both—but for totally different reasons. I’ve been using OpenAI since the pre-ChatGPT days (back when it was DaVinci and there wasn’t even a chat UI), and I only really started paying attention to Claude once tools like Cursor shipped Claude 3.5 as a default and I noticed how ridiculously good it was at coding. So I walk through a practical comparison: models, pricing, context windows, and the day-to-day features that actually matter when you’re building real projects. I compare Claude 3.5 Sonnet against GPT-4o (best price-to-performance picks in their stacks), and the context window difference is a big deal: Claude’s 200k tokens vs ChatGPT’s 128k. Then I run real tests: generating a developer homepage using Artifacts/Canvas (Claude’s output is noticeably more polished in styling and layout), plus automation workflows in Zapier where GPT-4o tends to behave better for “general use” summaries. Finally, I show what it’s like inside VS Code/Cursor: for refactors and feature work across a codebase, Claude consistently gives me better results, while GPT-4o can overcomplicate, undercomplicate, or miss project-wide context.