Sang Lee posted: Oh wow! I tried perplexity for a month, but the dealbreakers for me were 1/Limited, low-value sources 2/ Poor interpretation of nuance within those sources, even with models like Opus. I feel back on traditional search more often than I found perplexity helpful.

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Recently switched from Google to Kagi as my default search engine, and I noticed that I've developed a nasty habit of instinctively skipping the first few results because I'm so used to them being sponsored on goog 😂

Justin Mabee @mabee · 7mo

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I don’t even use search engines anymore. Just AI models and Perplexity. I only use Google if I’m looking at something for SEO purposes for clients.

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Oh wow! I tried perplexity for a month, but the dealbreakers for me were 1/Limited, low-value sources 2/ Poor interpretation of nuance within those sources, even with models like Opus. I feel back on traditional search more often than I found perplexity helpful.

Apr 13, 2:44 AM

Justin Mabee @mabee · 7mo

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When’s the last time you used Perplexity? It’s gotten increasingly better constantly. I only just started using Claude because it’s now part of Raycast’s AI models. Opus is truly one of the best big models.

Sang Lee @sang · 7mo

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I switched to Kagi about a week ago, and I had been using perplexity before then. Opus is incredible, yeah. Really, really good (honestly I barely use GPT-4 anymore, Opus is just way better to me). For simpler tasks I've just been running mistral locally.

Justin Mabee @mabee · 7mo

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I think I’ll probably change my main usage to Mistral; I barely use GPT either. Raycast adds the ability to search the web with any of the models too.

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