Which LLM am I?
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🗞️ 🔍 Featured: Which LLM are you?
This is our three question 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure’ to provide you immense, earth-shattering insights about yourself. Here’s the rules:
Pick one option each time.
Follow the “Go to…” instruction.
If you cheat and pick multiple, congratulations: you’re a Chaos Goblin. (You’ll still get an answer.)
Check it out below 👇
This Week’s Line-Up
🔍 What does my choice of LLM say about me
🔥 Exceptional Events
🤖 Techies Weekly Update
📼 Weekly Video: HELP! Which LLM to Choose?
👀 Who uses more electricity? Me prompting GPT all day or my inconsiderate housemate who blasts the AC while the windows are open
🦘Memes of the Week
🔍 Which LLM am I?
QUESTION 1: Why are you opening an LLM right now?
A) I need facts and I need them with receipts, because I’ve been hurt before.
👉 Go to QUESTION 2A
B) I need to make something (write, plan, think, unblock my brain). Hallucinations welcome baby.
👉 Go to QUESTION 2B
C) I need to ship (code, automate, deploy) and I’m one minor inconvenience away from becoming a monk.
👉 Go to QUESTION 2C
QUESTION 2A: You chose “facts.” So what kind of facts-person are you?
A1) “Cite your sources.” If it can’t be verified, it’s fan fiction.
👉 Go to QUESTION 3A
A2) I don’t need citations, I need the full context. Give me the whole messy folder and I’ll decide.
👉 Go to QUESTION 3B
A3) I’m not even researching. I’m collecting ammo to win an argument later.
👉 Go to QUESTION 3A (same destination, different personality disorder)
QUESTION 2B: You chose “make something.” What’s your biggest sin?
B1) I want it to sound human. Like, actually human. Not “corporate cheerleader who drinks LinkedIn cool-aid for breakfast.”
👉 Go to QUESTION 3C
B2) I want it fast. Clean enough. Close enough. Please don’t make me think.
👉 Go to QUESTION 3D
B3) I want it to be funny, sharp, and slightly mean, but still useful. Basically: “write like me, but better.”
👉 Go to QUESTION 3D (yes, same as above)
QUESTION 2C: You chose “ship.” What does your editor right look like right now?
C1) Everything is on fire. I need an AI that behaves like a competent teammate, not a motivational speaker.
👉 Go to QUESTION 3E
C2) I’m doing real work in a real stack and I want the model to plug into my actual life, not create yet another self-sustaining tab ecosystem.
👉 Go to QUESTION 3B
C3) I am speedrunning. I will use any model necessary. Loyalty is for sports teams and childhood pets.
👉 Go to QUESTION 3F
QUESTION 3: Final boss question (this one exposes you)
Pick the option that describes what you do AFTER the model answers:
QUESTION 3A: “Show me sources”
You don’t trust anything or anyone. You’ve either been burned by hallucinations or you were simply born with the soul of an auditor.
✅ Your LLM tribe: Research-first tools (Perplexity / grounded search modes)
Roast: You don’t want an assistant, you want a witness statement.
What you say in Slack: “I use research tools because my nervous system requires citations.”
QUESTION 3B: “Give me EVERYTHING”
You don’t want a reply. You can write your own shit, but you need help sourcing the raw materials. You want the whole messy universe: emails, docs, PDFs, spreadsheets, that 2-hour video you never watched.
You’ve basically chosen the model that can eat your digital hoarding problem.
✅ Your LLM tribe: Gemini
Roast: You don’t have “context.” You have a landfill of information and a dream.
What you say in Slack: “What’s a context window?”
QUESTION 3C: “Try again. Make it not cringe”
You care about writing. You care about tone. You care about the shape of sentences.
You’re the person who rewrites a two-line message twelve times and calls it “being precise.”
✅ Your LLM tribe: Claude
Roast: You’re not picky, you’re just traumatised by ugly sentences.
What you say in Slack: “I use Claude because I can’t stand clunky prose.”
QUESTION 3D: “Good enough, ship it”
You want a versatile all-rounder. You don’t want to think about tools. You want the universal remote.
If it helps you move on with your life, you’re sold.
✅ Your LLM tribe: ChatGPT
Roast: You’re basic, but in the way that works. Like toast.
What you say in Slack: “I use ChatGPT because I’m functional and I refuse to overcomplicate this.”
QUESTION 3E: “Make. No. Mistakes.”
You want outputs, diffs, and solutions. Not “Here are some considerations.”
You’re here to ship, and you’re already emotionally exhausted.
✅ Your LLM tribe: Claude Code / code-first workflows
Roast: You treat AI like a power tool and you’re right to do it.
What you say in Slack: “I use code-first tools because meetings are my natural predator.”
QUESTION 3F: “I use whatever works”
You don’t pick a model. You pick an outcome.
You’ll switch tools mid-task without blinking. Monogamy isn’t in your workflow.
✅ Your LLM tribe: Chaos Goblin (aka: the correct way)
Roast: You don’t have brand loyalty. You have commitment issues and a Trello board.
What you say in Slack: “I don’t choose models. I choose results.”
🔥 Exceptional Events
1. Generate, Capture & Nurture Leads on Autopilot - Built in 4 Hours
🗓 Jan 24th | ⏰ 9:30am – 3:30pm | 📍 Stone & Chalk
You’re posting content, getting interest, and attracting the right people
but somewhere between “This looks great!” and “Let’s book a call,” your leads disappear... Manual replies, scattered messages, forgotten follow-ups, and endless spreadsheets aren’t just annoying… they’re killing your growth.
It’s time to automate the entire journey. ⚡
2. Use AI To Hack Your Way To Page #1 Of Google
🗓 Jan 31st | ⏰ 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM | 📍 Stone & Chalk
Want your startup on page one of Google without spending months guessing what to write? We’ll link you with an AI agent that will research, write and publish, and capture spot #1 on Google search while you sleep. This event is EXPENSIVE (sorry) because we’ll actually show you how to integrate and use the agents that we spent months working on. If you’re a struggling founder/student write me an email (sam@mlai.au) with why you need hella discounts.
3. Melbourne | AI Builder Co-working x StartSpace
🗓 Saturday 7th Feb | ⏰ 10:00am | 📍 StartSpace
This event is great for those who want to work on their AI products, see what others are building, get to know Melbourne’s awesome AI community more, and just hang out and have a great time!
4. Cursor Cafe
🗓 Saturday 14th Feb | ⏰ 9:30am (Choose a slot) | 📍 Bottari
We’re taking over a local café (Bottari) and inviting the Melbourne community to come build with us. Bring your laptop, your ideas, and come spend some time collaborating, debugging, or just chatting with other Cursor users.
5. Melbourne | AI Builder Co-working x Stone & Chalk
🗓 Saturday 21st Feb | ⏰ 9:30am | 📍 Stone & Chalk
This event is great for those who want to work on their AI products, see what others are building, get to know Melbourne’s awesome AI community more, and just hang out and have a great time!
3. MYMI x MLAI: MedHack Frontiers
🗓 21st–22nd February 2026
Australia’s most chaotic health-tech hackathon. Team up with Hackers, Hustlers, Hipsters & Healers to solve real medical challenges and push digital health beyond buzzwords.
👉 Early Bird tickets here.
🤖 AI Bits for Techies
This week: Are you rational or idealistic?
AI is moving SO FAST! So we moved the heavy lifting to a dedicated weekly report. If you want the deep dive, including weekly research paper summaries, new open-source tools, and model architecture updates, this is for you. This week find out whether you are a rationalist or idealist.
View the Techies Report: Click Here
📼 Weekly Video: Which LLM to choose?
Video: Which LLM should you choose? by IBM
Length: ~6 minutes
About: Can’t decide on which LLM to choose as a developer? IBM has created a video to breakdown how you should decide.
😒 Who uses more electricity: Me prompting GPT all day or my inconsiderate housemate who blasts the AC while the windows are open.
It’s the grudge match of the century.
In one corner: me, guilt-spiraling every time I hit “regenerate” on a monster prompt, convinced I’m personally draining a data center dry. In the other corner: my housemate, Brad… or Chad?.. (One of those two, his parents only gave him one syllable name otherwise it would be too complex for him to remember), who has the AC cranked to arctic settings while the patio door is wide open because “he likes the breeze.”
I need to know who the real villain is here.
Next Thursday, we are doing a deep dive into the actual energy cost of your AI habit. We’re going to try and find out if your daily Claude Code obsession is worse than Brad/Chad’s total lack of respect for the climate emergency.
Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the verdict next Thursday! And if there are other topics you want us to investigate, yell them out in the #general in our slack. channel. You’ll earn Roo Points just for telling us what we should write about next.
🦘 AI & Startup Memes
