Why I Switched from GitHub Copilot to Claude Code Max
TL;DR GitHub Copilot is an autocomplete engine. Claude Code is a junior engineer who can read your entire repo, run commands, edit files, and execute multi-step plans. After a year with Copilot and a month with Claude Code Max ($100/month for the Max plan with Opus), I moved my primary workflow to Claude Code for infrastructure and backend work. Copilot still wins for inline code completion in the editor. Claude Code wins for everything else – debugging, deployment, refactoring, writing tests, and any task that requires understanding context across multiple files. ...