There’s a question I keep hearing lately, and I’ve been asking it myself too:

Is ChatGPT losing its crown?

A year ago, that would’ve sounded ridiculous.
2023 belonged to ChatGPT. It was the default. The breakthrough. The thing that made AI feel real.

But by the end of 2025, something shifted.

The ecosystem exploded. New models arrived. New interfaces. New claims of “better”, “smarter”, “more powerful”.

So instead of guessing, I decided to actually test them.

Not in benchmarks.
In my real work.

Over the past months, I spent real time inside the main competitors, not just clicking around, but using them the way I use ChatGPT: to think, write, research, and make decisions.

Here’s what stood out.

So yes, the landscape has changed.

There isn’t one “obvious” best model anymore.
Different tools really are better at different things.

Which makes the next part more interesting.

After testing everything, here’s the honest conclusion I came to:

ChatGPT still wins for me, not because it’s always the smartest on paper, but because it’s the one that actually fits how I work.

It’s trained on me.
Over time, it has learned my tone, my structure, and the way I think and write. It doesn’t just give me answers, it gives me my kind of answers. That matters more than raw intelligence.

It fits into my real workflow.
It’s fast. It’s frictionless. It’s always there. I don’t have to switch mental modes or adjust how I work; I just open it and start. That simplicity keeps me in flow.

It’s shaped by millions of real human interactions.
Every prompt, every edge case, every weird use case people throw at it feeds back into how it behaves. It feels tuned to how people actually think and work, not just how benchmarks say they should.

Other models might beat it in specific tests.

But ChatGPT still beats them where it matters most to me:
trust, familiarity, and momentum.

It’s not just a tool I use.
It’s a tool that understands how I work, and helps me work better.

And that’s what I’m choosing to build on.

It’s not hackers that worry me most.
It’s good people, smart, careful people, pasting client data into an AI tool because they just needed something done faster.

AI risk isn’t about headlines. It’s about inputs, what we feed the machine, knowingly or not.
And in this new world, you’re only as safe as your rules.

That’s why I built the AI Risk & Policy Toolkit, not to make anyone paranoid, but to give every business something they’ve never had before: a seatbelt for the AI era.
It doesn’t turn you into a compliance lawyer. It helps you stay confident while your team experiments, creates, and automates.

The moment you write it down, panic turns into process.
That’s the point. You protect your business before you ever need protection.

If this sparked something in you, come say hello on LinkedIn; that’s where I share the deeper lessons, tools, and systems behind ConfigurAI.

For the human side, the messy experiments, reflections, and moments that shape the work, you’ll find that on Instagram.

And if you want to see how it all connects, the business, the story, the mission, it’s all at orgesameli.com

Because what we’re building here isn’t just about AI.
It’s about making technology feel human again

See you next Tuesday with more ways to cut the busywork and get your time back.
Orgesa Meli

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