Claude vs Chatgpt: An AI Power User's Perspective

After 49 days running Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-4o side by side across SEO, content production, and AI architecture work, the results don't match the benchmarks. Claude wins on instruction hierarchy, context coherence, and session consistency. ChatGPT wins on speed, web search, and casual tasks. Both confabulate. Both regress without warning. Neither replaces the other. The real answer is redundancy, not loyalty.