Coding in December: Claude Code for everything

With Opus 4.5, Claude Code is now clearly better than OpenAI Codex and Gemini CLI for nearly all coding tasks. It is smarter, faster and better at self-correction. It is also happy to run autonomously for longer—until the job is done.

Combine that with the better UI and additional features (skills, hooks and all the rest), and it's a no-brainer at the moment.

For me, it's a step change. Dan Shipper agrees.

I've still not made time to try Droid.