Claude vs GPT vs o1: Which AI is best at programming? | Cursor Team and Lex Fridman

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See below for guest bio, links, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

*GUEST BIO:*
Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming.

*CONTACT LEX:*

*EPISODE LINKS:*

*SPONSORS:*
To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts:
*Encord:* AI tooling for annotation & data management.
*MasterClass:* Online classes from world-class experts.
*Shopify:* Sell stuff online.
*NetSuite:* Business management software.
*AG1:* All-in-one daily nutrition drinks.

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[asimdeyaf]

Unlike ChatGPT, I rarely have to read the code Claude makes. It often simply works the first time… plus it’s way faster.

[meko]

01 preview just built me fully functioning web analytics software. GDPR compliant, anonymized user ids, encrypted data, and offline viewing with python. I have limited space on my hosting account so I needed a web analytics software solution so I could monitor the performance of my pages without contributing too much to my file limits.

[kdelmonten]

Bro the one to the right of Lex is doing his best Sam Altman voice impression 🤣

[CollaredConsulting]

Perplexity let’s me alternate between them for the same question and Claude is best, especially if you train it using Perplexity’s Library feature and it gains expertise in a particular subject area

[Hemebean]

For me, o1 has been the most useful, by far for long and complicated scripts.

[minghuiyu]

Claude's project feature is great.

[DrummerSi]

I have to say, I've been using cursor for a week now and I can't agree more with what's being said here. I think the point is, it's like talking to a competent programmer who gets your dodgy explanations (or implicit intention) rather than you having to prescribe and talk the lingo of an all knowing super AI programmer. I'm producing more work of better quality by a factor of 2/3x. Well done team

[anthonybongo]

It's another bias variance thing. If you can be super specific, o1 is the best hands down. If you are kind of unclear to what you want, then 4o is probably better. For me, o1-mini is just amazing. It will always write what you want, no doubt. You just have to be clear about what you want.

[jokelot]

I use Claude and GPT 4o mini(because its fast), but i alternate between models.

[hbela]

awesome team, very much impressed by these young genious guys.

[inthegrail]

is there an English translation available?

[djpuplex]

Waiting for Agentic capabilities to come like Jensen said type in a prompt and get a fully functional program.

[WimpyWarlord]

Been using both for last 6 months. Claude is better for coding.

[KhalidAskar]

I’m nodding like I actually understand

[numb]

I use both and can't pick a winner. But you can't go wrong with either one

[Manas-xy]

As cs first year scares me
Doing 4 years of engineering
Worthless i don't know what to do in life
Zero motivation
Only anxiety, depression at its peak
Life is becoming hell and hell more

[u-bblf]

from my own perspective, i think chatgpt is still dominant in the coding areas as well as in language model. Claude might do the same resullts or can be superior in programming but it has a problems understanding your requests. I honestly felt shit using claude

[AlexAD]

The combined IQ in that room is probably over 700

[jaivan]

What matters is (Agent Smith voice) is time to ship goes way down and more people can do it.

Napster says hello pirate.