Replicate vs Claude Code: Which Is Better in 2026
Last month, I spent four hours trying to deploy a custom image generation model for a client's e-commerce app. I had the weights, I had the Dockerfile, but provisioning the GPU infrastructure, handling the API routing, and managing the cold starts turned into a complete nightmare. The next day, I needed to refactor a 12,000-line Python codebase to comply with a new data privacy API standard. Two very different problems, requiring two very diff