Which AI platform is best

[chml]

I've been a very light user of AI so far but have mainly used ChatGPT. I've asked it for help with a landing page and it seemed quite 'difficult' to help in the way I wanted (but that could just be me and my prompts!). I asked Grok for something similar and it seemed to get it right off the bat but I thought Grok was just an Elon Musk megaphone but I could be completely wrong!
What is the best AI platform that people are finding out there at the moment or are they all much of a muchness?

Thanks

[wombleh]

GlasgowGPT

[Slyjoe]

I like Grok, I've used it as a travel agent and local guide for planning the next camper van tour of Europe.
Talk to it like a person, and it comes back with a very detailed driving and sightseeing plan.

[chml]

wombleh said:

GlasgowGPT

I thought this was a piss take until I googled it haha

[chml]

Slyjoe said:

I like Grok, I've used it as a travel agent and local guide for planning the next camper van tour of Europe.
Talk to it like a person, and it comes back with a very detailed driving and sightseeing plan.

It seems to be very good so far but I don't know 'safe' it is but that might just be because I've ever seen it on X

[TheBinarySheep]

depends what you want to do with it. i'm using Claude Code for software dev. then a mixture of ChatGPT and Claude for other stuff.

recently tried gemini cli, it's quicker than claude code but not as in-depth.

i was paying for Windsurf and Cursor until i started using Claude Code.

[danb79]

I use ChatGPT and Gemini a lot for work (and personally) - you have to feed it information; tell it about you, our expectations, how you think / operate / talk, your humour, your likes/dislikes etc and it'll learn about you and then come back with more tailored responses

I'd use it a lot for critiquing candidate CVs, more so when I was dealing with a difficult role and needed to break a candidate down a bit more; or change-up the spec to source a different kind of candidate. The more niche dev roles and tech stacks would give it a good platform to scorecard candidates which came in really handy

[LimaDelta]

I have a paid Anthropic AI/Claude Pro Plan account which is pretty good for what I need. ChatGPT is the most well known and Siri uses that for some stuff, and Whatsapp now has Meta AI bundled with it, which my children use a lot for various things. Both of those are free.

[cobra kid]

How do academic institutions deal with this stuff nowadays?

"chatgpt, write me an essay on........."

Seems too be good to be true!

[LimaDelta]

cobra kid said:

How do academic institutions deal with this stuff nowadays?

"chatgpt, write me an essay on........."

Seems too be good to be true!

It's ok, they are using AI for marking too.

[.:ian:.]

Dave Plummer seemed to think Claude was good for coding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AJoByRGkgU

He didnt try GlasgowGPT though, so maybe thats better

[Dogwatch]

.:ian:. said:

Dave Plummer seemed to think Claude was good for coding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AJoByRGkgU

He didnt try GlasgowGPT though, so maybe thats better

I was going to suggest that video too. Interesting.

[wombleh]

chml said:

wombleh said:

GlasgowGPT

I thought this was a piss take until I googled it haha

It's great entertainment, I've not analysed it for serious usage over the others though

[TimmyMallett]

Why don't you ask them?

[juice]

Dogwatch said:

.:ian:. said:

Dave Plummer seemed to think Claude was good for coding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AJoByRGkgU

He didnt try GlasgowGPT though, so maybe thats better

I was going to suggest that video too. Interesting.

We use cursor quite a lot. We had this old webforms app for vacation that someone wanted a change on (to display the holiday calendar out to 12 months for the whole firm). Would have taken the devs ages to review the code and then change it. Cursor did it in 40 mins

[lizardbrain]

I'm not sure I could tell the difference these days. They are all pretty good

Currently I use the free tier of chat GPT for random questions purely cos the Mac app has the nicest global shortcuts.

Google gemini 2.5 for more serious work stuff via paid workspace account.

Grok 3.0 for any discussion requiring 'personality' via X

cluade 4 for coding via cursor subscription

Edited by lizardbrain on Thursday 17th July 09:23

[Joey Ramone]

LimaDelta said:

It's ok, they are using AI for marking too.

No, we're not

[sideways sid]

Perplexity seems like a good bet as it uses many of the LLM's already discussed, so you can choose which is most suitable for your usage or let it choose.

Pro version available for USD15 if you search on Reddit, too, although the others may be available on similar terms.

[chml]

I'm obviously way behind the curve on this as I haven't even heard of some of these - I think it's time for me to go down some YouTube rabbit holes!

Thanks guys, this has been enlightening!

[AlexC1981]

Does anyone else find the chummy AI interfaces really annoying? I want AI to respond in a concise and professional manner. The way the computer on Star Trek TNG speaks would be perfect.

I asked one a simple question the other day and it rambled on all friendly and chatty, then had the cheek to ask me a question at the end!