Best AI for agents and automation
What 156 creators said they actually use for agents and automation, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For agents and automation, most creators use Claude (78), then Claude Code (46). The model they name most is Claude Opus (19).
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Creators who use or recommend each"That's when Claude Managed Agents went into private beta. So we got access to it. We're like, oh, this actually could help a lot. And it really, it truly did. The trade-off with it is it's single platform... we're using only Anthropic mo..."
"I tell Claude to spin up command line sub agents because those maintain their persistent session over time. And so you can have it spin up these agents separately. You can actually run them from other sessions and so on. And that allows ..."
"I'm actually very, very close to hooking up Codex to Grok, sucking my timeline out of X, getting all the raw data and the tweets, and then fact-checking everything and creating a new feed for myself."
"If you don't want to use Superfocus, you can always try and connect different apps to ChatGPT and run a routine overnight or something to flag these."
"But now, as of a few days ago, GrokBot can just search X natively. You don't need to connect your X account. You don't need to pay extra... So I just went to Claude Code and I said, 'Hey, can you use the GrokBot webhook skill...'"
"Anthropic 4.5 Opus and Gemini 3 Pro. Those are the sort of starting pack of tools you can use. They're all capable of doing agentic work... Gemini is an interesting set. Very smart overall model. Weirdly neurotic."
"We have a consistent scheduled job running on Cursor cloud agent that always checks every single day at a specific time for those issues."
"Grockbot comes out, I stopped using Perplexity Computer, I started using Grockbot, then I went back to Perplexity Computer and I've been using Claude."
Models creators name for agents and automation
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
Head to head for agents and automation
Only creators who compared the two for agents and automation.
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How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track and note when a creator says they use or recommend an AI tool for a job. Each creator counts once per tool. Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.