// BLOG // 11 DE ABRIL DE 2026 // 2 MIN LECTURA
Three AI models in parallel, and why I keep all three
Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, side by side — what each one is actually best at, and the one habit that makes the combo work.
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I keep three frontier models open in my browser most days: Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. People ask me which one I’d pick if I had to pick one. The honest answer is that the question is wrong.
The right question is: what is each of them good at, and what is the cheapest way for me to use all three?
Where each one earns its keep
After enough sessions you stop thinking of them as products and start thinking of them as colleagues with very different temperaments.
- Claude is the colleague I trust with code and long context. It’s my default for anything that needs careful reading of a large repo, careful rewriting of prose, or careful refusal of a bad idea. The harness I work with most often is built on top of it.
- ChatGPT is the colleague who’s seen it all. Wide world-model, fast on arbitrary little tasks, the best for “I just need a sanity check” or “what do you call this thing in Spanish.”
- Gemini is the colleague with the best raw reasoning on certain math / proof / planning tasks, and a very different bias from the other two — which is sometimes exactly what you need.
The habit that makes the combo work
Triangulation.
Almost every non-trivial decision I make with AI assistance, I throw at two of the three. Not because any one model is unreliable — they’re all remarkable — but because the second model’s first draft of an answer surprises me roughly one time in three. That’s the one in three that matters.
It’s the cheapest second opinion you can buy. It costs me thirty seconds and saves me from confidently shipping a coin flip.
What I don’t do
- I don’t run side-by-side benchmarks. Benchmarks are for the model people. My job is to ship.
- I don’t pick a “winner of the month.” Frontier models are leapfrogging each other on different axes. The combo is the answer.
- I don’t use any of them as an oracle. They’re great colleagues. They are not an authority.
That’s the honest version of the workflow. Try it for a week and you’ll probably tune the weights differently from me — that’s fine. The point is to have more than one in the room.