We like Anthropic more than OpenAI

Kristen Berman writes why she's picked Anthropic over OpenAI — and she doesn't do it lightly. She's been around the block. Her point is practical: Anthropic's model is more honest about what it knows and what it doesn't. OpenAI's models are bigger, flashier, and more willing to bluff. For work that matters — the kind where a wrong answer costs you — Berman says you want the one that tells you when it's guessing.

The piece sits in a longer conversation about trust in AI. OpenAI's gpt-4 was the first model that felt useful for most people. Anthropic's claude has been the one that feels honest. Berman's thesis is that honesty is a feature, not a bug. You can always prompt a flashy model harder. You can't prompt a lying one into truth.

Why this matters for us: the same honesty that makes claude better for serious work is what makes it the right model for tools like Obsidian AI — where a wrong answer doesn't just annoy you, it gets you in trouble.