ME:: nobody mentions the considerable cost for LLMs and the considerable amount of time you need to experiment to see if an LLM works for you. Time and money require privilege and wealth; Federico Viticci:: The AI App Experience Matters More Than Benchmarks Now - MacStories
Discovered: Nov 30, 2025 07:55 (UTC) ME:: nobody mentions the considerable cost for LLMs and the considerable amount of time you need to experiment to see if an LLM works for you. Time and money require privilege and wealth; Federico Viticci:: The AI App Experience Matters More Than Benchmarks Now - MacStories <– QUOTE: Which brings me to my takeaway: from my perspective, despite a stronger baseline, there is still no single LLM that “does it all” these days. Beyond my nerdy experiments, I generally alternate between two modes: Claude for most work-related tasks, and either ChatGPT or Perplexity for web search. The combination of these two modalities gives me everything I need from modern LLMs, and it provides me with the mix of performance, design, and app integrations I like best. ... Ultimately, choosing between any LLM at the frontier of AI right now is a highly subjective matter that comes down to cost, workflow, app ecosystem, design, and, yes, pure “vibes”. Personally, I try to avoid fixating on benchmarks and instead prioritize these qualities in my decisions