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Comparison24 July 20266 min read

Vera vs ChatGPT: Two Different Jobs

ChatGPT is better than Vera at nearly everything Vera is not for. Here is the line between them, written without pretending one of them wins every row.

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This is not an argument that one of these is better. It is an argument that they are answering different questions, and that most people who use both have worked that out already.

Where ChatGPT wins, plainly

Breadth of knowledge, long documents, code, research, and running on every device you own rather than only an iPhone. If the job is thinking or writing, that is the tool, and it is not close.

What it does not have

Your week. There is no calendar of yours in it, no task list, no habit streak, no record of how the last fortnight actually went. So when you say you are exhausted, it can be sympathetic and general, because general is all it has.

What Vera does with the same sentence

It already knows you have slept badly most of the week, skipped a couple of sessions and had a launch on Thursday. The reply is about you rather than about tiredness, and that difference is the entire product.

Most people use both

One for thinking, one for the week. That is a perfectly sensible answer and there is no need to pick.

Have a look at the thing itself.

A cast of characters sharing one memory of your week. Free to download, and free to keep using.

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