An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - with o3, Claude 4 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro as the models and Deep Research as a useful alternative mode. Today it's much more about agentic systems - "where the AI is capable of doing the equivalent of many hours of real human work in one go". Gemini has fallen off Ethan's list, since Google still doesn’
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Published: 27 July 2026
Source: Simon Willisons Weblog
Category: Field notes
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 28 July 2026
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