Claude vs Deepseek vs ChatGPT

I have been building various tools using all 3 of these LLMs. Deepseek R1 is really useful when you need to figure out the thought process behind a suggestion.

I have been building a stock predicter app, a rss tp blue sky poster, this blog.

This blog has probably been the most complicated for some reason. The process to get gatsby to produce the static files from markdown is unexplainably difficult. It would have been easier to build this blog manually with React and HTML.

I think ChatGPT is probably the best of the three when trying to create NodeJS applications, but its free tier runs out fairly quickly. Once the free tier is used up, I go to Claude, and finally DeepSeek.

DeepSeek is still very good at solving problems, even better when R1 is enabled, but it can sometimes produce code that has the same bug it in over and over again.

I wanted to try using it inside VS Code, but I keep hitting my free tier before I get a chance to use it in my IDE. I've used copilot a lot, but I enjoy coding sometimes so I just find myself coding it out individually.