I’ve been using Claude consistently since like last year july so I’m a pretty hardcore user, but recently I tried using ChatGPT because of Sol, and I feel like ChatGPT produces much more readable output first of all, even compared against Fable, but more importantly, ChatGPT seems to do its research better? When I’ve used Claude I’ve gotten a lot of details missed from the articles and for example wiki content (for a videogame mod) that it visited, and it frequently says it got blocked by some automation policy, while ChatGPT seems to be able to just get me stuff I need? And the output is also much more readable. I’ve been using Opus 5 with Claude and there’s not even a question there if Sol is better at output, because I legitimately can’t understand what the fuck Opus is trying to say a lot of the time. It’s like a bunch of mangled text that tries to sound very clever but Opus forgot to de-ai-ify it or something. Like LLM’s have their own weird optimized thinking language sometimes and it’s like Opus can’t translate it back into English properly… ChatGPT meanwhile has such good output that I was able to make it write a first draft for a manual with the only instruction being “use direct language”, and I barely had to fix anything after. But in terms of research it really seems like Claude tends to miss so many details too, while ChatGPT is sent into some direction to look into and it properly looks at many angles and explores treads if it can’t find what you need directly. Is there something I’m missing for Claude to be better at this? Keep in mind I’ve been using Claude for over a year now so I’m not a new user, I used to think it was better for everything, but it feels unusable for exploration/search/research/writing compared to ChatGPT. submitted by /u/therottenworld
Originally posted by u/therottenworld on r/ClaudeCode