I run an AI-powered startup, and we canceled our ChatGPT plan months ago. Claude feels more like the promise of AI.

• Sidhant Bendre canceled his AI startup ChatGPT subscription and switched to Claude last year.

• Claude performed better and user wave I’m switching from ChatGPT to Claude.

• ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, failed to meet revenue and user growth targets. reports.

This article, as told, is based on a conversation with Sidhant Bendre, the 26-year-old co-founder of Oleve, an AI-focused consumer software portfolio company based in New York. His remarks have been edited for length and clarity.

I used ChatGPT for about two years before switching to Claude as my preferred model and ending my company’s business relationship. ChatGPT subscription.

When we launch Our company OleveWe were already using AI, so we’ve always relied heavily on it in our workflow, from coding to marketing to our hiring process. ChatGPT was our first model. That changed after Anthropic released the 4.5 model pack for Claude last fall.

We have not been suspended from ChatGPT; We were drawn into Claude.

Claude initially had fewer bugs when generating code than ChatGPT

We haven’t had any major disappointments at ChatGPT that forced us to switch, but I think one of the promises of AI is to speed up our work, and Claude allowed us to move faster because we spent less time getting it right.

Mainly when using ChatGPT, I noticed that the content it generated did not sound very human. this would be excessive use of emojis I felt really challenged and in a place where I couldn’t do it. I haven’t used ChatGPT carefully in a while, but when I go back to test the prompts in the mockup I still get overly detailed responses.

Claude is better at imitating human writing. Even before Claude’s 4.5 pack was released, we had heard students talking about how good the model was at work. imitating their writing style after feeding with samples.

With Claude’s codingWe were able to automate most of our development time with the plans we already had. Now we can focus more on the product itself rather than spending so much energy on the build time.

How models understand nuance is the biggest difference

The biggest difference between the models seems to be isolating context and taking nuances into account.

If I give Claude a large research document and I search for something small, he almost always understands when to be concise, while also providing appropriate context and highlighting what I want more detail about.

Sometimes it felt like ChatGPT was overcompensating for poor decisions about what to focus on by offering more content. If I’m currently using it, I usually have to ask multiple times to summarize or restructure it to be shorter.

We integrated artificial intelligence Once we switch to Claude, we’ll be incorporating it into more of our workflows. When I knew the payoff was worth it, it made more sense to invest the time and energy it took to do it.

Claude gave us his problems

Lately Claude has been telling us about his own problems with errors. Some of our messages or chats disappear and it is annoying.

It’s not perfect. I still occasionally feel like I’m hallucinating in the model’s printouts, causing my trust in Claude to waver a bit. Even with a web search on new scripts, I have to push those scripts back to fix them myself Opus 4.6 model.

I’m still a big fan of Claude’s suite, but I’ll switch if something better comes along

I didn’t pay much attention to the bigger one OpenAI and Anthropic contention. If ChatGPT releases a suite of products that will add significant value to me, I’d give it a try. I don’t feel too attached to Claude to try something else.

I think the biggest thing for me was that Claude was much more like what the AI ​​promised. All of the models have provided significant value, but more often than not, I feel like it takes my busy daily tasks off my plate and gives me time to think about the big picture.

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