GitHub Copilot vs Claude Code: Which Is Better in 2026
Last week, I spent three hours debugging a distributed caching issue across fourteen files in a microservices repo. I tried Copilot first—it gave me solid inline suggestions for individual functions, but it couldn't track the data flow across my service boundaries. I switched to Claude Code, described the architecture, and it rewrote the cache invalidation logic across five files in about four minutes. I reviewed the diff, found one misse