It ranged from whether an epic v10 sport surf ski was a good fit for a newbie, to entra ID questions, to local data residency compliance laws, new jira alternatives, why schools ask for closed shoes, text to speech tool search. Many of these I use eg o4-mini-high for because I want it to ground itself: find material and compile something for me, but get me an answer fairly quickly.

Ones that don’t work but weren’t in the last 10: voice. It sounds amazing but is dumb as rocks. Feels like most of the GPU compute is for the media, not smarts. A question about floating solar heaters for pools. It fed me scam material. A question about negotiating software pricing. Just useless, parroted my points back at me.

I scale models up and down based on need. Very simple: gpt-40. Smarts: o4-mini-high. Research: deep research. I love Claude but at some point it kept running out of capacity so I’d move elsewhere. Although nothing beats it for artefacts. MS Copilot if I want a quick answer to something MS oriented. It’s terrible but it’s easy to access.

Coding is generally Windsurf but honestly that’s been rare for the last month. Been too busy doing other things.