Tried Claude against ChatGPT for coding Python scripts last week

I needed to rewrite a messy script that scrapes real estate data from Zillow. Gave both AI tools the same prompt with my broken code. Claude caught the recursion error in 2 minutes flat while ChatGPT gave me a bandaid fix that broke again after 50 results. Claude actually explained why the original logic was flawed instead of just patching it. Has anyone else found one AI better than another for specific coding jobs like this?

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cooper.max16d ago

Honestly that recursion thing is interesting. Did you notice if Claude was better at explaining why the fix worked or just faster at spotting the original bug?

willow67216d ago

Yeah, spotting the bug was way faster. Explaining why took some prodding though.