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We All Have a "Serious Work" AI and a "Just Vibing" AI. When Did That Happen?

Dhruv Jani on September 22, 2026

Hi Guys!!! As you know I wasn't good for well, a week and Now..... Let's Dive In!!! I never consciously decided which AI gets which job. Somehow...
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Dhruv Jani

Okay, now I’m genuinely curious πŸ˜‚

I clearly have a whole AI hierarchy that I never consciously created.

Do you have one too?
Which AI gets the serious work, which one gets the dumb little questions, and which one do you trust for one oddly specific thing for absolutely no logical reason? πŸ‘€

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ

I just bounce around different AI models if anything. I don't really have a specific one that is task on a specific thing. It's more of using it as a good search tool more than writing code since it's very useful of finding information on what I need.

I tend not to use it as much of relying on the AI to do coding because it removes my ability to think critically whenever I am solving a problem. A good methodology is not having to do too much and too little of anything.

Picked as gem
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Dhruv Jani • Edited

Yeah yeah cool. Neither do we since you know start of campus placement season, we don't use AI for coding but you know we do it for hacks as students, cause there the goal is to be generally good.

But thanks for the detailed write-up. But Sir, I'd like to know where do you get this great gifs and images from? Just CuriousπŸ˜…

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ

No problem! For the images/Gifs, I just search them on the internet (Google specifically). Nothing really fancy though :)

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Ranjan Dailata • Edited

I think you really missed one big LLM i.e the real, natural human brain😁

Unfortunately, the folks who are heavily using or leveraging AI tools are outsourcing their thinking and some even forget they are alive 🀣

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Dhruv Jani

TBH I'm no longer surprised from this

Unfortunately, the folks who are heavily using or leveraging AI tools are outsourcing their thinking and some even forget they are alive 🀣

Recently saw someone online explaining that they created an ai in their brain so when they aren't in situation to open an ai platform, they ask to ai in brain, what to do? And I'm like bro? Did you just learn to think?🀣

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Jessica Doering • Edited

I relate to this so much. I definitely have a β€œserious work” AI and a β€œjust vibing” AI without ever consciously deciding to set it up that way.

Claude Opus is usually my serious work model, especially when I’m planning something complicated, debugging a weird issue, or working on something where I really care about the reasoning and details. Then I use Antigravity with Gemini 3.8 Flash for smaller changes, experiments, quick ideas, or when I’m basically just poking at something to see what happens.

I also use Codex with GPT-5.6 Sol for some oddly specific things, especially documentation and little repetitive fixes that come up often. Codex has the best memory for that kind of stuff in my experience, so if I run into the same issue again, I can usually just ask it to fix it and it already knows exactly what I mean. That makes it ridiculously useful for those recurring tasks.

And I think you nailed the reason why this happens. It’s not always about which model is technically β€œbest.” You start learning which one you trust for certain kinds of work, which one is fast enough, which one has enough usage available, and honestly which one annoys you the least for a particular task.

At some point you realize you’ve accidentally become your own AI router.

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Hubert Larose Surprenant • Edited

Gemini into antigravity IDE or the windows app... There is a difference where the IDE of course feel more like a complete final product over a web app transfert to a Windows app for Exemple...The IDE is very good... And of course the pro plan of Gemini is one of the best for tokens... I use also Ollama deepseek 4.1 flash on a 100$ plan give you for 300$ credits so far I didn't even using half... Yertarday... Ollama or DS was getting a higher price per tokens usage.. They have reset my monthly usage back from 0 to 300 for no additional cost... For this use it's a win win.. Using it into Hermes desktop... Is a good duoo for casual and heavy work!!

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Dhruv Jani • Edited

Yeah, but can't you use the NVIDIA NIM API and run that free claude code server locally? Or is it just good enough for prototyping and not in production? Cause my friends use these models like this way only.

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Hubert Larose Surprenant • Edited

Why do you want to get stock into a tool that an Agent doesnt understand or even know where he ''life'' on ....
remember something a lot of these tools came from CLI -p or sandbox .... using native tools for native agent are much more controllable .... Ive been using for exemple a lot of new desktop app where the agents was finaly told me like .. I am in Hermes CLI .. or codex .. or claude code ... remember that ... and this is always something I build my tools on that even Claude Code desktop ... didnt really know about ... and cannot control the application you are using ...

Ask Claude Code in desktop app ... ok .. create me a new project .. call it Project 2 ....

He will never been able to do it ..

If the native agents doesnt have an MCP of there own application ... its impossible for them to control it .. so they are stock inside there CLI ....

Same as if you use NIM on Claude code CLI ... and you create / command .... ask like Nemetron ... use / this / command ... he will have to figured out where he life in .... what tools he have access to and how to use them ...

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Glen Allen

What I find interesting is that this eventually becomes less about model preference and more about risk-based routing. A quick formatting task and a production-facing architectural change shouldn't need the same level of reasoning, verification, or tool access. The useful question may be β€œwhat is the cost of being wrong here?” rather than β€œwhich model is smartest?” That could lead to a more deliberate routing system where low-risk tasks get fast, inexpensive models, while high-impact tasks automatically trigger stronger reasoning, additional verification, or human review. The hierarchy people develop informally today could eventually become an explicit policy layer around their AI workflows.

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Alejandro Sobko

I'm a creature of habit, I Started using Antigravity And Now With Gemini 3.8 it's Just Great. Sometimes I Use Opus, almost Never. On The Chat I use gemini web And ChatGPT web, I tried To Change All That Flow a lot of Times But I Always Come Back πŸ˜…

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Vrunda Chauhan

This is so real πŸ˜‚

I definitely have a "don't waste Claude credits on this" brain now. Half the time I'm not even picking the smartest model, I'm picking the one that's the least effort for that task.

Somehow they all ended up with different jobs without me ever deciding it.

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UnitBuilds

Gemini for throwaway (the web interface is great for picking up old questions), Qwen 3.8 flash (qoder efficient) for bulk work, Qwen 3.8 max for serious thinking. Gemini pro for 'double check qwen's work', Claude Opus for 'I seriously need to make sure they didnt screw up'. Though most of the time, I actually trust Qwen more than I trust Opus, idk, for me even 3.8 Flash thinks 'smarter' for me, it pre-optimizes further than Opus and just sticks to better design principles imo.

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Yug Vasava

Glad you're back bro! good post and good GIF!

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Dhruv Jani

Thanks! That's from friends btw but you wouldn't know thatπŸ˜‚.

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Yug Vasava

HA HA. talk about post, not unnecessary stuff! But that's good cause we all default back to chatgpt just cause its fast.

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Dhruv Jani

Well for exam notes. Not for hackathon stuff, who uses antigravity there huh?πŸ˜‚

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Isaiah Kim

What do you use as the check when Gemini gives a calculation answer you no longer double-check?

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Dhruv Jani

Actually you always have answer keys to PYQs, so ....

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GIF xD
Nice write-up Dhruv :D

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Dhruv Jani

Thanks di!πŸ˜„

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Kartik N V J K

The split between "serious work" and "vibing" AI use is something I see in my own workflow. I use a coding agent for structured tasks and a conversational agent for brainstorming, and the two rarely overlap. The interesting part is that the "vibing" use case often leads to the most creative insights, even though it feels less productive. How do you think about evaluating the quality of unstructured AI interactions?

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Propelito

Great topic and text