One of my fav things to do now for knowledge or research questions is ask 2 LLMs concurrently: [knowledge](https://arena.ai/text/side-by-side), [(re)search](https://arena.ai/search/side-by-side).

For now my favorites for simple chatbot are `gemini-3.1-pro-preview` (very new but it's been extremely consistent for me thus far) and `claude-opus-4-6-thinking` (no-nonsense), and for search, `gpt-5.2-search` (thinks long, often gives very complete analysis) and `grok-4.1-fast-search` (somehow is capable of finding relevant results for niche, specific queries)

There are some things I think there is still some value in working through, even if it's with the help of the LLM (I think I used perplexity)

Louis has been chilling. I try to be more careful after your warning.