In case it’s helpful, I prompted Claude Sonnet 4.5 with extended thinking to explain three of the key concepts we’re discussing and I thought it gave a pretty good answer, which you can read here. (I archived that answer here, in case that link breaks.)
I gave GPT-5 Thinking almost the same prompt (I had to add some instructions because the first response it gave was way too technical) and it gave an okay answer, which you can read here. (Archive link here.)
I tried to Google for human-written explanations of the similarities and differences first, since that’s obviously preferable. But I couldn’t quickly find one, probably because there’s no particular reason to compare these concepts directly to each other.
In case it’s helpful, I prompted Claude Sonnet 4.5 with extended thinking to explain three of the key concepts we’re discussing and I thought it gave a pretty good answer, which you can read here. (I archived that answer here, in case that link breaks.)
I gave GPT-5 Thinking almost the same prompt (I had to add some instructions because the first response it gave was way too technical) and it gave an okay answer, which you can read here. (Archive link here.)
I tried to Google for human-written explanations of the similarities and differences first, since that’s obviously preferable. But I couldn’t quickly find one, probably because there’s no particular reason to compare these concepts directly to each other.