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Friday, January 02, 2026

Settling on Claude

I've settled on Claude as my subscription AI of choice. I use Claude Code for programming so I'm pretty familiar with it. I was using ChatGPT but I don't like its rumoured upcoming erotic mode. Claude's company Anthropic has an on-staff philosopher which gives me some confidence that they will do the right thing. I like how Anthropic will be profitable soon while OpenAI seems to be getting into a lot of debt.

Claude can't do image generation so for that I will need to rely on Gemini or ChatGPT.