Lenny Rachitsky compares Claude, Codex, and Gemini as distinct personalities: Claude is a communicative CTO-like collaborator, Codex an introverted but highly effective coder, Gemini a brilliant but chaotic designer. Using multiple models together lets you leverage their different strengths.
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Each model has such distinct characteristics. Claude, she would be the perfect cto. She's very communicative. She's very smart. She doesn't just go with the flow and do whatever you tell her. She's very opinionated, but also super collaborative, which is, I think, why I'm always drawn to Claude, because I need to do so much learning. But then there's also Codex. I always imagine it as the best coder within the company who comes to the office with a hoodie and sandals and sits in a dark room, and you basically only bother him. When you have the worst bugs and you say, listen, we have this bug, and it will just close the door for two hours and come out and say, I fixed it. It's like, really not communicative, but it solves all the worst problems. Gemini is like a crazy scientist who's super artsy, talented at designing, but if you sit next to it and watch it work, it's terrifying. Like, you would fire that person instantly. You can see the steps it's taking. Like, you'll say, I want you to redesign the top of the dashboard. You're looking at its thought process, and it will say, oh, first things first. I'll delete the dashboard. And then it'll be like, nope, that's. That was a mistake. I'll bring it back. And then it will say, oh, can I edit the database? You're like, no, do not edit the database. You're just doing a redesign. And then it will end up designing something beautiful. I think that using all these models, playing to their strengths and mitigating their weaknesses by using other models is a game changer for me.
