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152 points GavinAnderegg | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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nickjj ◴[] No.44457178[source]
Serious question, how do you justify paying for any of this without feeling like it's a waste?

I occasionally use ChatGPT (free version without logging in) and the amount of times it's really wrong is very high. Often times it takes a lot of prompting and feeding it information from third party sources for it to realize it has incorrect information and then it corrects itself.

All of these prompts would be using money on a paid plan right?

I also used Cursor (free trial on their paid plan) for a bit and I didn't find much of a difference. I would say whatever back-end it was using was possibly worse. The code it wrote was busted and over engineered.

I want to like AI and in some cases it helps gain insight on something but I feel like literally 90% of my time is it prodiving me information that straight up doesn't work and eventually it might work but to get there is a lot of time and effort.

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1. jonfw ◴[] No.44457386[source]
The AI agents that run on your machine where they have access to the code, and tools to browse/edit the code, or even run terminal commands are much more powerful than a simple chatbot.

It took some time for me to learn how to use agents, but they are very powerful once you get the hang of it.

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2. josefresco ◴[] No.44457494[source]
> much more powerful than a simple chatbot

Claude Pro + Projects is a good middle ground between the two. Things didn't really "click" for me as a non-developer until I got access to both.