Seeking a “yes-man” AI partner-in-delusion, whose gleeful sycophancy is matched only by its volume of unwaveringly-delivered hallucinations? If so, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the right choice, Raiders say.
One of the first widely available large language models, ChatGPT is the Sputnik of the so-called AI race—first to arrive on the scene, but limited in its capabilities. From ChatGPT, much like its space-charting counterpart, emanated a “beep” through its nascent text-and image-generation technology, inspiring the roar of such AI platforms as Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot, and xAI Grok. But then there’s Anthropic’s Claude.
“Claude produced 30,000 lines of code for me in 30 seconds,” debate and mythology teacher Robert Holmes said. “It’s wildly trainable … I evangelize about this technology to my family and friends—it’s truly revolutionary. I tried ChatGPT a few months ago, but it was kind of crappy, as I knew it to be.”
Atop the growing list of the Raiders capitalizing on the AI’s programming abilities, with Claude Opus 4.6 earning a staggering 95.0% HumanEval score as of 2026, sits junior Lennon Spektor. A lifelong broadcaster, she exclusively used Claude to create her portfolio website—no professional programmer, coding expertise, or other AI needed.
“The more I started to use ChatGPT, the more I realized that it’s trained to please you and agree with everything you say,” Spektor said. “I also asked it to find me a quote from one of my old YouTube videos that I could mention in a college essay, and it hallucinated it. From that point forward, I didn’t want to work with that AI anymore … I tried Claude, and it doesn’t take that much prompting.”
Though many indicate a stark contrast in the effectiveness of Claude and ChatGPT, others have yet to make the switch, citing a lack of urgency and habit rather than dissatisfaction.
“ChatGPT has become such a constant for me, and it feels so normal to go on there [rather than on other AI chatbots] when I have a question,” sophomore Alexandra Naumovich said. “I will say, I was studying for a Chemistry test recently, and I asked it to give me practice problems, and half of them were wrong … when ChatGPT isn’t working for me, I usually just forget it.”
Despite some individuals remaining loyal to ChatGPT, often due to inertia rather than conviction, Claude—or, rather, Apollo—has lifted off to stratospheric heights. On March 2, 2026, it reached a record 11.3 million daily active users on its mobile app, a 183% increase from the start of the year. While time will tell, it seems to be planting a metaphorical flag on the future of artificial intelligence, Raiders say.
