tried a bunch of AI coding tools - here's what actually happened

been bouncing between ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and BlackBox for the past month. just wanted to see which one I'd actually keep using

ChatGPT - good for when I need someone to explain why my approach is dumb. talks like a human which helps. sometimes gives me code that doesn't work anymore

Claude - writes really detailed explanations. maybe too detailed. I just needed a quick fix and got an essay

Copilot - autocomplete is nice when it works. lives in my editor which is convenient. keeps suggesting stuff from different projects though

BlackBox - has this thing where it searches GitHub for similar code. helped me find real examples instead of generic answers. UI is kinda rough but whatever

honestly I just use whichever one is open at the moment. sometimes copilot while coding, chatgpt when I'm confused about concepts, blackbox when I need to see how other people did something

they're all wrong sometimes. like confidently wrong. you still gotta know what you're doing

don't think there's a "best" one. just different tools for different situations