Comment by photon_lines

My favorite LLMs ranked:

  DeepSeek (with thinking & reasoning & search turned on)
  Claude Code
  QWEN Coder (with thinking & reasoning & search turned on)
  ChatGPT
  Google Gemini

Each one has it's own strength and I use each one for different tasks:

  - DeepSeek: excellent at coming up with solutions and churning out prototypes / working solutions with Reasoning mode turned on.
  - Claude Code: I use this with cursor to quickly come up with overviews / READMEs for repos / new code I'm browsing and in making quick changes to the code-base (I only use it for simple tasks and don't usually trust it for implementing more advanced features). 
  - QWEN Coder: similar to deep-seek but much better at working with visual / image data sets.
  - ChatGPT: usually use it for simple answers / finding bugs in code / resolving issues. 
  - Google Gemini: is catching up to other models when it comes to coding and more advanced tasks but still produces code that is a bit too verbose for my taste. Still solid progress since initial release and will most likely catch up to other models on most coding tasks soon.