# Why is ChatGPT for Mac So Good? - Allen Pike

<https://allenpike.com/2025/why-is-chatgpt-so-good-claude>

- Host: [allenpike.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/allenpike.com/)
- Saved: December 4, 2025 (2025-12-05T00:43:11Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8f7362017e44/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8f7362017e44.json

## What Jamie wrote

I generally agree with Pike on this and specifically agree that debating models is interesting, but the tools that get you the value in and out of the model are critical too. ChatGPT is far and away best on the desktop than any other app of its kind.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT335: Weekly Thing 335 / Complexity, Fizzy, Soul](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/335/), Notable

## Same host

- [The Era of Tab Continuation - Allen Pike](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8b6aad7d8d11/) (allenpike.com, February 3, 2025)
- [JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back - Allen Pike](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/71ee72c7495e/) (allenpike.com, March 3, 2025)
- [Post-Chat UI - Allen Pike](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9ab22ecec562/) (allenpike.com, May 5, 2025)
- [Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent - Allen Pike](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3369783bcc38/) (allenpike.com, July 6, 2025)
- [How to Not Get Acquired - Allen Pike](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7d1a7d1dfd38/) (allenpike.com, November 2, 2025)

## Saved the same week

- [Daring Fireball: Signal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c2f9b5da0ff1/) (daringfireball.net, December 4, 2025)
- [Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0db8f9bb9652/) (simonwillison.net, December 4, 2025)
- [Survey shows how much teenagers dislike the news media | AP News](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1c71c5bdf893/) (apnews.com, December 4, 2025)
- [POSSE Party - Quit social media by posting more](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0b516c85d9bd/) (posseparty.com, December 4, 2025)
- [Twin Cities Business Person of the Year: Rob Vischer | Twin Cities Business](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9930828c41ba/) (tcbmag.com, December 4, 2025)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://allenpike.com/2025/why-is-chatgpt-so-good-claude