Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Claude Code Performance Variations
Users are discussing the varying performance of Claude Code depending on factors like coding style, comparison to Gemini, and the nature of the project.
So I built a complete game engine for the Neo Geo (1990 arcade hardware) in 3 days using Claude Code. Physics engine, Z80 audio driver in assembly, parallax scrolling, spring-based UI animations, full asset pipeline. Here's what went into it ...
So far Claude code is performing at the same magnitude as Gemini cli. Just confirmed that my entire timeline of tpot influencers are all super average engineers. I actually feel a lot better. I encourage you to run the same a/b test on a variety of different code bases (large
It depends a lot, we have all kinds of things. Some I iterate on in Gemini beforehand, others I plan directly in claude-code. In general, we try to use a single repo, but if it's something more cross-functional, we work with the context from all the repos together and add the