Anthropic's Claude Code for VS Code has surpassed OpenAI's Codex extension in Visual Studio Code Marketplace installs and review volume despite launching later. OpenAI positions Codex as an IDE ...
You don't have to give anything up to use Claude Code, and it may make programming a lot easier for you.
I gave ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude the same browser extension project. Their strengths quickly became obvious.