I've been running both OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 through their paces since they dropped within a week of each other this April, and I need to tell you something right up front: asking "which one is better" is the wrong question.
The right question is: "Which one is going to cost me a fortune in token bills, and which one actually finishes the job without hallucinating a dependency that doesn't exist?"
Last week, I was buildi
# Getting Started with Claude Code 4.8: A Practical Guide Last week, I was staring down a migration I'd been putting off for months. Our API layer had organically grown into a tangled mess of inconsi
# How to Use Claude Code 4.8 for Real Coding Work I had a migration problem. Three hundred and twelve files across a monorepo, all using a deprecated internal API wrapper that needed to be swapped ou
Last week, I spent three hours watching a coding agent go completely off the rails. I asked it to refactor a Python API—extract some routes, clean up the database layer, add a few tests. Simple stuff.