“AI is jagged intelligence, as they say, where it’s incredibly smart at some things and incredibly dumb at others. And it’s structured very differently than humans in that when you’re using Claude, you’re using the same AI model—even if you have 10 instances of it running. So 10 of them talking to each other doesn’t really improve its thinking in the same way that 10 humans talking to each other do, because those humans are trained on 10 different datasets.
Humans are just inherently very creative and think out of bounds. Whereas the AI agents are trained on the same data distribution. They’re literally running the same model. It’s like 10 people with the same brain and the same dataset talking to each other. Sure, just through thermodynamics they might have some different ideas and come up with something slightly different, but they’re generally going to think the same. So all you’re doing when your 10 agents are talking to each other is you’re just throwing 10 times as many tokens at the problem. It’s like saying take 10 times as long if you need to.
Now there are different models like Codex, and Gemini, and Grok Code, which are trained slightly differently. Not that different, but they’re slightly different. And so they might have some different insights.
Claude has really good visual presentation through a system called Artifacts and Claude is very good at talking to me at the level that I’m at. So it’s very tuned to figure out from your question and your conversation what you’re capable of understanding and what level you’re asking the question at. It’s very good at meeting you at that level.
ChatGPT is still the OG. It’s very good all around.
Gemini is very good at search because it has the Google crawl underneath. It’s a frustrating product—it’s constantly timing out on the app and losing the connection and forgetting the plot. But it’s very fast and it’s got a great search index. So if the question I’m asking is really a search question underneath, then I use Gemini.
Gemini also has access to YouTube. So if you think your answer is lying in a YouTube video—and there’s a lot of YouTube videos—then Gemini has the data advantage of YouTube. So Gemini is really getting by on data advantages. It doesn’t feel like the best model to me, but it has the best underlying data.
And then Grok is the one I can count on to tell me the truth. It’s like the least neutered, least nerfed. It’s got access to X, so it’s very good at news. And it’s very good at technical problems. So if you’re asking a deep, difficult problem in the scientific/mathematical domain, then I think Grok is actually quite good—not that the others aren’t, but I just think Grok is standout there. And that reflects the biases of the companies that created them and trained them and are driving them.
Currently all four of the leading frontier models have a place.”
Full episode: https://youtu.be/lIUEJqIDPcA
