Edit: maybe Cursor forced this and Microsoft is taking its choice to open license VS code on the chin. Will be interesting to see the strategy with Visual Studio going forward.
Makes sense that MS would partner with Anthropic since their tool-use for productivity (Claude Code) seems superior. I personally rarely code with ChatGPT, almost strictly Claude.
Even the bench marks don’t seem all that helpful.
I often would use Claude to do a “make it pretty” pass after implementation with GPT-5. I find Claude’s spatial and visual understanding when dealing with frontend to be better.
I am sure others will have the exact opposite experience.
Overall, I think Google has a better breadth of knowledge encoded, but Anthropic gets work done better.
I had the same experience recently with: - Ticketmaster - Docusign - Vercel
Probably a handful more I forgot.
I believe the main reason is because it prevents fraud.
But I see a deeper motive that phone numbers are more friction to change and therefore our “real” numbers become hard-to-change identity codes that can easily be used to pull tons of info about you.
You give them that number and they immediately can look up your name, addresses, age, and tons of other mined info that was connected to you. Probably credit score, household income, etc.
Phone numbers have tons of “metadata” you provide without really knowing it. Like how the Exif data in a photo may reveal a lot about your location and device.
verdverm•1h ago
They lost me when they expired my money and then tried to take more without asking