My New Best Friend Is ChatGPT
By Adrian Sutton
I’ve switched from Claude to ChatGPT as my main AI assistant. For work I’ve been toggling between the two but I only need to pay for one subscription personally. The current Claude subscription just ran out so now my new best friend is ChatGPT…
The biggest issue with Claude is that they just don’t seem to have enough capacity for what they’re selling. Response times have become quite long and are dominated by the time before any tokens actually get spent, clearly just waiting to be allocated some GPU time. Plus I’ve regularly had problems where they rate limit all responses even though I’m well within my paid for quota. It’s annoying enough that AI plans have completely opaque, and unquantified token allowances, but to not actually be able to use what you pay for is ridiculous. I don’t expect ChatGPT will be perfect, but its certainly a lot faster from my early experience.
The Claude Mac app is also terrible, but I’ve heard very good things about the ChatGPT app, and again early indications are promising. I may still use the codex CLI tool, but the Codex app feels like its at least worth a try. The ChatGPT app already feels far richer and more responsive.
I’ve also started experimenting with omp as a harness (thanks for the tip
Rodrigo!). I’m not sure if it’s particularly better or worse at the moment but I
like the idea of using a third party harness so I can more easily switch models
without having to switch UIs and convert from CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md etc. It’s
slightly surprising that I haven’t found working in traditional IDEs with their
AI integrations to work particularly well. That may have improved since I last
tried it, and I certainly miss having a really great IDE, but somehow the many
parallel AI agents doesn’t fit well with a traditional IDE. There’s very likely
a real opportunity for however can really crack the right way to build a great
AI-first IDE. Plenty of people are working on it and some look like they have
potential but I haven’t seen anything that really feels right to me yet.
So many levels of experimentation in this new world… Still fun!