Comment by timr
7 days ago
I use Copilot, with the occasional free query to the other services. During coding, I mostly use Claude Sonnet 3.7 or 4 in agent mode, but Gemini 2.5 Pro is a close second. ChatGPT 4o is useless except for Q&A. I see no value in paying more -- the utility rapidly diminishes, because at this point the UI surrounding the models is far less important than the models themselves, which in turn are generally less important than the size of their context windows. Even Claude is only marginally better than Gemini (at coding), and they all suck to the point that I wouldn't trust any of them without reviewing every line. Far better to just pick a tool, get comfortable with it, and not screw around too much.
I don't understand people who pay hundreds of dollars a month for multiple tools. It feels like audiophiles paying $1000 for a platinum cable connector.
Generally I see people saying they pay for Claude Max + ChatGPT Pro. So not multiples of 100s, one 100 and some 10s.
It's also all tax deductible if you run your own company, so you're not really spending $100s.
And for tool expenditure it's still pretty cheap.
I used to pay for Visual Studio until I realized I didn't really use the extra features any more. It's a roughly comparable expense. It's not much different from paying for something like Adobe either.
For sure when people don't understand the fundamentals (or in the case of LLMs they are unknowable) then all you have is superstition.