Jacob Marks

I ended Moving from ChatGPT to Claude with "more once I've actually used it." I've used it. The answer isn't simple because chat and coding are different enough to warrant separate conclusions. I'll preface this with noting that these are my observations and not scientific conclusions. Overall Claude's setup friction was real. Claude depends on more non-Anthropic services than you'd expect and Pi-hole blocks a significant number of them silently. I ended up building an allow list and publishing it before I could use Claude reliably. ChatGPT has never required any of that. I also happened to start evaluating Claude during an outage, which didn't help first impressions. Not everyone runs Pi-hole, but enough technically-minded people do that it's worth noting. Anthropic's availability is noticeably worse than OpenAI's. The status dashboard reflects a steady stream of incidents. ChatGPT is install and forget. Claude required fighting to g...

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