ChatGPT Projects or Claude Code for someone who can't really code yet?

Open · 413 views · asked 3 weeks ago by astrid_n · edited

I've built half a booking page by copy pasting from ChatGPT into VS Code. People keep saying Claude Code is better because it "sees the whole project". But the terminal scares me a bit and ChatGPT explains things nicely.

Honest opinions? Which one makes fewer mistakes for a beginner?

What I’ve tried

Tried Claude Code for one evening, it made a lot of changes fast and I lost track of what it did.

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carmen_v3 weeks ago · edited

I switched from copy-paste to Claude Code after two months. The big difference isn't smartness, it's that it can run your code and see the error itself. With ChatGPT you are the one moving errors back and forth.

Losing track is fixable: ask it to do one small thing, then look at the diff before the next.

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Seeing the error itself sounds very useful, I spend so much time copy pasting errors. astrid_n 3 weeks ago · edited

bytebarista3 weeks ago · edited

Copy-paste has one hidden advantage for a beginner: you read every line because you paste it. Nothing lands in your project you haven't seen.

I'd stay with ChatGPT until the copy-paste itself is what slows you down, then switch.

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Fair point about reading every line, I hadn't thought about that. carmen_v 3 weeks ago · edited

sanne_dev3 weeks ago · edited

Middle ground: Claude Code in plan mode only, for a week. It reads your project and proposes, you approve each step. Less scary than full auto.

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This sounds like a good way to try it without panicking. Will do that. astrid_n 3 weeks ago · edited

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ChatGPT Projects or Claude Code for someone who can't really code yet?

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