I made Claude compete against itself
The smartest model does not automatically make the best agent.
I put the same Opus 4.6 model, initial prompt, and empty repo inside Claude Code and Factory Droid, then asked both to clone Excalidraw.
Factory Droid: 8 minutes, 20 tool calls, $1.60
Claude Code: 19 minutes, 40 tool calls, $1.87
The only difference was the harness.
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