Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GPT-4.5 for Coding: Which AI Model Wins in 2025?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GPT-4.5 for Coding: Which AI Model Wins in 2025? When GitHub’s Copilot team published its 2024 developer survey, one statistic stood out: 92% of respondents said they now use AI coding assistants at least weekly, but only 38% said they trust the output without review. That gap between adoption and trust is the battleground where Anthropic and OpenAI are fighting for developer mindshare in 2025. I spent the last three weeks running both Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.5 through a battery of real-world coding tasks—not synthetic benchmarks, but the kind of messy, production-grade work that actually ships. Here’s what I found. ...