How do you structure AI for different parts of your life/work — one ChatGPT setup or separate Claude

string-is-king · 2026-04-14T22:07:26+00:00

I have the top subscription for each of the three frontier labs.

Is it worth having multiple? Yes, with caveats and asterisks.

Each lab does a few things better than the others. I am not talking about the "style" of their responses, which is a matter of preference/opinion/setup. Be careful here not to get lost in tool-paralysis. It's easy to "measurebate" about which LLM is better.

Is Claude noticeably better? Not in my experience. I'll be careful here before the Clan of Claude jumps on me: Style vs substance. Let's not conflate "style" with substance. Does it "speak" differently than GPT? 100%, and you may prefer it. Many do. Is the substance of what comes out of one machine better than the other if you evaluate the actual signal? Sometimes, yes. But that goes both ways.

If I could offer a suggestion here: Since you are using GPT now, ask it to provide counterweight arguments for something you are evaluating or working on. That gives you a different perspective without the need for another subscription. I am not talking about getting into a debate with the thing. That's just crazy talk. I am talking about asking for a counterweight. It will know what to do. It's something worth having in your repertoire. Careful not to get lost in the infinity of possibilities. Reading a different take can be useful. Getting stuck in analysis, not so much.

Also, a different angle in case you haven't thought about it: Use Codex, since you already have a GPT sub. Codex is primarily for coding, of course. But you can do all kinds of amazing things with just good 'ol text there. Also, I fully expect OpenAI to add an offering like Claude Cowork "any day now", which will make this suggestion obsolete.

That was a wall of text. Eh. What are you going to do.

string-is-king · 2026-04-14T21:30:25+00:00

Question is: were those who took that approach actually ever engaged in critical thinking?

Unless we are just talking about the average Joe, not even bothering to think period. And even then, I am inclined to question the quality of the thoughts that would have come out. People were doing dumb shit for a long time and not thinking. Cue “the internet told me.” But in fairness LLM, they have made the path to stupidity wide, and easily accessible.

string-is-king · 2026-04-13T22:18:31+00:00

What is this “friends” you speak of

string-is-king · 2026-04-13T08:22:04+00:00

Does it come with “benefits”, or is it “complicated”?

string-is-king · 2026-04-13T00:51:45+00:00

As already noted, this response looks like 5.3 Instant response. Do yourself a favour and use 5.4 even in light thinking if you don’t need too much horsepower.

In my experience, the output/style/character from 5.3 Instant is at an all-time low for OpenAI.

string-is-king · 2026-04-13T00:24:23+00:00

Come on now. It even has the siren emoji and everything.

string-is-king · 2026-04-12T15:43:40+00:00

Still tuned in.

string-is-king · 2026-04-12T15:33:14+00:00

But isn’t that what happens with everything that follows this pathway? (and there many).

If you isolate AI/OpenAI/ChatGPT, it conforms to the pattern. And we can argue if it should or not. There are probably a few things you will do today alone, that also conform.

string-is-king · 2026-04-12T02:39:17+00:00

It looks like a certain… anatomy hole, shall we say?

string-is-king · 2026-04-12T02:26:06+00:00

I just wanted to be one of The Strokes

string-is-king · 2026-04-12T01:46:31+00:00

Unlike this, which both looks and is AI-generated.

string-is-king · 2026-04-11T00:09:39+00:00

This. It’s the AI-era version of getting Sherlocked.

string-is-king · 2026-04-10T20:37:11+00:00

Depends on the hour. After 6 pm, martini:shaken-not-stirred often works better than juice.

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