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Mat Sherman
Why Am I Not Loving Claude?
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I am not a developer. I am a sales/business guy who gets an obscene amount of value out of ChatGPT. It remembers who I am, seems to give me better answers than Claude, and I have the impression that it’s a leading model, whereas Claude is top 10—maybe top five, but not top three. With that said, all I hear online is that Claude is better on all fronts. It’s better for coding, more ethical, and will last longer than ChatGPT. I even hear it has better models. If that’s the case, why do I feel like it pales in comparison to my ChatGPT experience? Why does my own experience not align with the broader appeal I see for Claude every day? Is it because I don't code or am I just using it poorly?
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steve beyatte
@mat_sherman what sorts of stuff do you feel like it doesn't do better? For me @Claude by Anthropic is better at writing. That's out of the box, no special prompting "write me a blog post", "write me an email", etc. type of stuff. It does a better job of not sounding artificial and not sounding like AI. They also had Projects first so I added a good amount of external documentation in various projects that it does a good job of context-handling for. I know @ChatGPT by OpenAI does this now, too but because Claude did it first, I tend to use it more. Sonnet is the default coding model such that it's the out of the box default for @The Windsurf Editor and @Cursor . It's the best at this IMO. What else do people like/not like about Claude?
Mat Sherman
@claude @chatgpt @the @cursor @steveb So I think that my main issue is that whatever I ask Claude to do, I ask ChatGPT to do and it's 10% better. Not 25%, but a solid 10%. It goes into slightly more detail. Or is there a world where my mind has just drunken the ChatGPT KoolAid and it's actually the same quality and i'm just very biased? Also for a while, it seemed like ChatGPT just had more capability. Like crawling the web or a site. I know Claude will eventually have that stuff, but I am an impatient early adopter. I don't know, but I'm going to try Claude again and repot back results in this thread. I would prefer to use Claude, but i need to feel like it's better.
steve beyatte
@mat_sherman The ChatGPT team has built more and much faster. In a world where the models get commoditized (which seems like a given), then the original cry of 'AI wrappers have no moat' is going to be proven wrong exactly because of your sentiments.
Elena Tsemirava
For some tasks (like working with numbers, formulas, and calculations), I use ChatGPT. For writing texts, I prefer Claude. Maybe it's just a matter of personal preference.
Mat Sherman
@elenat yeah that makes sense. at the end of the day, I feel like all of these models will end up pretty similar, echoing what @steveb said above.