Which AI tools are you using?
10 readers tallied their daily AI stack across 9 tools. Claude is universal, all 10 use it, and Gemini runs at 8 of 10. ChatGPT holds on at 7 of 10 but mostly as an image tool. Grok sits at 4 of 10 as an X-side utility, Perplexity at 3 of 10 for deep research, Replit at 2 of 10, DeepSeek at 1 of 10. Manus and Lovable got zero daily users. The loudest theme is Claude fatigue: paid users openly planning moves to DeepSeek or Codex this year.
From the thread
"Gemini for the browser plug-in and researched Google searches. Claude as the primary, especially for developing new tools, platforms, and coding. Perplexity is still the best deep research tool. ChatGPT for image generation, sometimes, not much else. Grok only on X to summarize what I'm reading."
"Gemini is number one. ChatGPT is for images only. Hopefully I will replace Claude with DeepSeek at some point this year."
"Gemini free, but only for toy usage, unreliable for facts. Claude paid, but like a lot of people right now I'm moving away from it. The current models are benchmaxed for frontend design and weak for everything else. It's honing back to being a specialty tool."
"Claude Code, Gemini for images, ChatGPT for images, Codex as a backup harness to Claude Code."
"Gemini just in spreadsheets and across Google products. Claude for everyday everything. Perplexity occasionally, I wish I used it more. ChatGPT for very accurate images if I feed it a reference. Grok for X search and news gathering."
Claude is in every single stack in this thread, 10 of 10, and it is still getting publicly retired by its own paying users. That is what a churn signal looks like before it shows up in a benchmark chart. Meanwhile Manus and Lovable scored zero daily users in a community that tests every new tool the week it launches. Hype does not equal habit.
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