What Your AI Choice Reveals About You

In the past, a person's bookshelf or record collection revealed their inner self. Today, it is the sidebar of AI tabs like ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok that serves this role.

The technology we choose has always been a form of autobiography. The engineer with the ThinkPad, the designer with the MacBook, the teenager with the cracked Android—each selection whispers something essential. But AI is different. Unlike our devices, which merely extend our capabilities, these models shape how we think. They are cognitive companions, intellectual co-pilots. And in choosing them, we reveal not only our technical preferences but our intellectual temperament, our creative ambitions, and even our political leanings. The model in your browser tab is the new Myers-Briggs, only more telling.

If you've hitched your wagon here, you are the Coldplay fan of the AI era—forward-leaning, technically competent, and not embarrassed to be mainstream. GPT-5 is a very good product, and proudly for the masses. Which makes you either comfortably normal or brilliant in a way that doesn’t mind normalcy—even when the model occasionally hallucinates citations with the confidence of a Wikipedia editor at three A.M.