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Lots of possibilities here.

People are learning to prompt LLMs in ways that produce better results for their LLM of choice, so switching to another one they find their approach no longer works as well.

Or.. LLMs have different personalities in terms of output; some being more or less direct/polite than others, or sounding more or less confident; and that is causing people to perceive a difference that in terms of factual answers may not be different.

Or just personal preference masquerading as intelligence - a classic among software engineers.



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