DeepSeek vs ChatGPT
DeepSeek gained attention in tech circles for its performance and surprising affordability.
Back Again – What a Crazy 6 Months!
I started Servitor in 2023 after being infected with ChatGPT. It may be a distant memory in a world of LLM-generated slop now, but that initial GPT-3 was heady stuff. Dumber, but in some ways more powerful, because it wasn’t … Read more

GIFs from GPT; New Canvas Feature
The real benefit of LLMs for coding is that they have read the documentation for all those software packages.

Aider: The Terminal Pair Coder I Didn’t Know I Wanted
Aider-chat is a terminal based AI pair programmer that’s easy to install, has some agency–but not too much, and done well–and that can precisely edit your code and also commits changes to Git for you.

Artificial Intelligence Acronyms (Part 2)
Part Two of our list of AI acronyms. If you’re swimming in alphabet soup, this can help.

Hands-on with OpenAI’s New “Reasoning” Model, GPT o1
In theory gpt-o1 can explore options for solving problems, refine them, and identify mistakes in its own “thinking.”