[Zambyte]

Claude 3 Opus has the most knowledge encoded in it from my experience, so I use that when I am using the non web search models. I also find that I don't often need the most recent information for the work that I do, so I don't often use the search enabled one. If I use the expert assistant, I usually just provide it an exact URL of a long document that I want to ask questions about.

I think they are particularly useful when you know what you want with particular nuances, and it would not be easy or possible to find that specific information in a web search. For example, I recently used LLMs to help me write a configuration for my RAID. I knew I wanted mirror+stripe, and I wanted to mount the RAID at /data, and mount my home directory at /data/home. I explained this to the language model, and it essentially built me a script to do that.

I could have looked at the manuals for how to use mdadm and edit /etc/fstab, but writing down exactly what I want in plain English and then doing what the language model spits out was easier and faster for me.