chatgpt is dogshit anyways and only surviving due to being the first and being free. So they have to burn money to stay relevant and hopefully not lose users to better models. GPT-5 is essentially a cost saving model and is the start of enshittification of the industry.
I use Claude for dev related stuff and it only provides limited queries so they can keep their model accurate since costs are limited.
Gemini already produces way better results than chatgpt ever did and is really good at research.
Perplexity can be a decent search engine.
Even AI is better than chatgpt in most things although I’d rather not use it.
What model do you recommend for brainstorming creative pursuits? As an adult with a “Serious Job™”, it’s hard for me to find anyone that has an interest in being creative. I find LLMs to give me enough feedback to help me flesh my ideas out.
For writing in English, GLM 4.5 is pretty good, open weights, and free or very cheap (free if you want just a chat interface, go to z.ai; cheap if you want API access, I’d recommend OpenRouter). It’s imo the best non-closed source LLM for writing in English. DeepSeek can be good for that too, but I’ve found that it can sometimes produce sentences that flow a lot worse (you can use DeepSeek for free via their website as a chat interface). For other creative pursuits, I’m not sure - if you give me an idea of what you’d want out of one, I can try to give you advice.
chatgpt is dogshit anyways and only surviving due to being the first and being free. So they have to burn money to stay relevant and hopefully not lose users to better models. GPT-5 is essentially a cost saving model and is the start of enshittification of the industry.
I use Claude for dev related stuff and it only provides limited queries so they can keep their model accurate since costs are limited.
Gemini already produces way better results than chatgpt ever did and is really good at research.
Perplexity can be a decent search engine.
Even
AI is better than chatgpt in most things although I’d rather not use it.
I find it hilarious that it does straight up worse than qwen or deepseek, which have been out for months now, on basic tasks.
What model do you recommend for brainstorming creative pursuits? As an adult with a “Serious Job™”, it’s hard for me to find anyone that has an interest in being creative. I find LLMs to give me enough feedback to help me flesh my ideas out.
idk I just use my brain for that kind of stuff. I use AI only for knowledge hunting.
For writing in English, GLM 4.5 is pretty good, open weights, and free or very cheap (free if you want just a chat interface, go to z.ai; cheap if you want API access, I’d recommend OpenRouter). It’s imo the best non-closed source LLM for writing in English. DeepSeek can be good for that too, but I’ve found that it can sometimes produce sentences that flow a lot worse (you can use DeepSeek for free via their website as a chat interface). For other creative pursuits, I’m not sure - if you give me an idea of what you’d want out of one, I can try to give you advice.
GLM is great. I liked 4 a lot, and 4.5 hasn’t been a disappointment.