Sarah Chieng(@MilksandMatcha):I made Claude compete against itself. The smartest model does not automatically make the best agent. To prove it, I took the same Opus 4.6 model, initial prompt, and empty repo and but it inside two different coding harnesses: Claude Code vs. @FactoryAI Droid. The task: clone Excalidraw from scratch, inspect the original in a browser, implement its key interactions, and verify the result. Factory Droid: 8 minutes, 20 tool calls, $1.60 Claude Code: 19 minutes, 40 tool calls, $1.87 The only difference was the harness. Get Free Factory credits here:

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I made Claude compete against itself. The smartest model does not automatically make the best agent. To prove it, I took the same Opus 4.6 model, initial prompt, and empty repo and but it inside two different coding harnesses: Claude Code vs. @FactoryAI Droid. The task: clone Excalidraw from scratch, inspect the original in a browser, implement its key interactions, and verify the result. Factory Droid: 8 minutes, 20 tool calls, $1.60 Claude Code: 19 minutes, 40 tool calls, $1.87 The only difference was the harness. Get Free Factory credits here: