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I've been using AI assistants long enough now to have developed some opinions about where each one actually shines and where it doesn't.

At work, I use Microsoft 365 Copilot. Mostly not for writing or reasoning, but for one specific thing it does better than anything else: finding stuff in the Microsoft ecosystem. Need a change number from six months ago buried in a Teams conversation? Copilot finds it. Want to know what was decided in that SharePoint document nobody can locate? Copilot finds it. For anything outside that Microsoft bubble it's unremarkable, but inside it, it's genuinely useful.

For technical work, I use Claude. Both through Claude Desktop and Claude Code running on my homelab. Writing scripts, working through infrastructure problems, reasoning about code. This is where it earns its keep. But I wouldn't ask it to do anything else.

Then there's Gemini. I use it for exactly one thing: images. Generating images for my website, or taking an existing photo and seeing what happens when you ask it to do something creative with it. Claude is not good at this. Gemini is. Simple as that.

What I've arrived at isn't a single AI that does everything: it's three tools with three distinct jobs. Copilot owns the Microsoft cloud. Claude owns the technical work. Gemini owns the pixels.

Maybe that changes as these tools evolve. But for now, this is what works.

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Written with assistance from Claude.

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