My New AI friend Perplexity
© 2025 Mark McWiggins
I have been using ChatGpt since 2022 for lots of tasks, including the beginning of the one I’ve just made a breakthrough tonight.
ChatGPT has been down for a day and a half (at least on my wife’s computer, which I am forced to use until I can get a new one) so I looked for this alternative and found it: Perplexity AI!
I got more done in about 2.5 hours today than in the last 10 days with ChatGPT. To be fair, i’ve learned a lot the past couple of weeks about dealing with these “beings” they have no context of what’s gone on before, even an hour. You have to start over and pretend you’re talking to an intelligent human with a very poor memory.
I used this method over this evening and I think in another 1/2 hour I should have the complete problem solved and saved in my git repo to be published.
Thanks, Perplexity!
