A few months ago I thought the whole “AI workflow” thing was mostly hype.
I was basically just opening ChatGPT whenever I needed help with coding, writing, or random ideas and that was it.
But over time I started noticing something weird.
Sometimes ChatGPT would give me a really creative answer, but the structure would be messy. Then I’d paste the exact same thing into another model and suddenly the response became clearer and more organized. Then another model would rewrite it in a more natural way. I mean most models have their strength and weaknesses.
At some point I realized I was spending more time moving prompts between models than actually working.
So mostly out of frustration (and curiosity), I built a small tool for myself that lets multiple models work one after another on the same prompt, but I realized why this didnt exist yet. This usually produces hallucination propagation, to handle this I had to build a heuristic layer to manage their output.
The outputs are genuinely better for certain tasks though. Especially brainstorming and writing. Something about having different "minds" react to the same thing produces results I wouldn't have gotten from any single model.
I later stopped to stopped think about AI as which model is right? and started thinking about it more like working with different people on a team. One is good at ideas, another is more analytical, another is better at polishing or researching.
I’m more curious if anyone else here has fallen into the same rabbit hole of combining models together instead of relying on just one.
I'm just curious, does anyone else do this? Combine models instead of picking one? and how do you handle it?