Claude Code vs Copilot: My 2026 AI Workflow

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Claude Code vs Copilot: My 2026 AI Workflow

How to adapt to the unstoppable AI wave and new agent-driven workflows

My last article wrapped up at the end of 2025. This means I haven’t put out anything new for a few months.

I have a few direct and indirect reasons for this.

Direct Reasons:

  1. Winter is when I take long vacations for skiing and outdoor activities. The snow conditions are perfect in January and February.
  2. I need to stay extra focused on work to make those long breaks happen.
  3. I used to spend a lot of energy on Copilot. Now I am moving to Claude Code. It takes a lot of time to fine-tune the new workflow.

Indirect Reasons:

  1. I noticed that fewer people read traditional or digital media in the AI era. This includes platforms like Medium.
  2. Most new learning principles and methods are actually the same as before. Only the tools changed.
  3. I can already delegate most tasks to agents. There isn’t much left to share.

One major point to watch is media influence.

I used to work in e-commerce. I know how traditional operations work. This includes things like SEO, ads, and CRM. But AI is taking over the entry points for media. In the future, people might not even browse stores. AI will just place the orders directly. Traditional methods will not be very effective then.

This is happening on platforms like Medium too. To be honest, my month-over-month views on Medium are dropping fast. My revenue reflects this as well. This is a huge turning point for content creators. We must adapt to this new digital transformation. If we don’t, we will get left behind.

Another key point is tool integration. Every coding tool uses the same models now. The winner will be whoever can build a better workflow.

Let’s look at Skills as an example. Claude Code launched Skills to fix a major pain point with MCP. Usually, listing an agent’s abilities eats up a lot of context. Skills provides an index instead. The agent only reads the details when it actually needs a specific ability.

This concept is simple. I was already using Copilot this way before Skills even existed. I wrote my own Markdown files for common commands like gh.md, jira.md, and confluence.md. I told the agent about these files in the system prompt and to check those files when it needed details.

This gave the agent clear instructions for platforms like GitHub or Jira. This is exactly what Skills does. Claude Code just made it a built-in feature. Copilot recently added a similar Skills concept too. These are not groundbreaking features. They are just workflow integrations. But these tiny tweaks are what created the massive agent ecosystem we see today.

I didn’t feel a massive jump in quality when I moved from Copilot to Claude Code. Instead, the whole process just felt smoother. Take Hooks for example. I used to spend a lot of time tuning Copilot to get them right. Claude Code has them built-in. This makes everything much easier.

These are my takeaways from working and learning in 2026. I can’t put together a fully structured report yet. But I can say one thing for sure. This AI wave is unstoppable.

Originally published on Medium