My LLM Usage in July 2026:

TLDR: My default position is still, “if an LLM is good at it, we probably don’t need it.” Claude: Claude wins on personality, but loses on rate limiting (as I’ve mentioned before), also I’m developing an allergy to Claude’s written voice. If you want a sure fire way to demonstrate you didn’t use an LLM in your writing, make it aggressively short and pointed. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve asked Claude a question and all I got back was an excessively long clarifying question then immediately rate-limited. Other times Claude and I can have a more satisfying conversation. I’ve an overall fatigue with Claude’s ever shifting usage thresholds relative to the user experience. I don’t know how many tokens my request is – nor do I have control over how much tokens are burned in the response. The resulting experience is too much like playing slots. Microsoft and Google are better positioned to win the LLM game as they have other revenue sources. Gemini: I built one app (ACV Outlier)…