Currently I'm not really paying for any AI subscription. I'm largely reliant on the company's Claude offering but I'd like to separate my personal stuff from work. I've checked out the following ~20$/month plans and have some thoughts:

* Claude seems to be the most capable, but the app was pretty terrible when I tried it a couple of months ago, I rant into frequent rate limits, crashes, etc. It was just not that reliable overall.

* ChatGPT has the best app overall (project folders + end to end experience was super nice), but I'm not sure about the ads and if the company's going to be around after a while...

* Gemini is OK. The app is pretty bad again, no support for folders/projects + I'm trying to de-Google my life a bit so I'm not sure if I should go all in with this...

My usecase(s): I would like to build smaller applications/scripts on the side to fix annoyances in my life and automate things every now and then. Every now and then there might be a hobby project. I also intend to use LLMs for slightly more involved rubber-ducking to work on ideas that span across programming, music (production, performance, learning), and literary fiction.

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this was my issue as well: both the desktop app and the ios app feel slow and clunky, and i don't think they have gotten any meaningful updates in a very long time... i do love logseq, but i have since built that workflow into obsidian through a bunch of templates and plugins.

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Point being, LLMs don't really understand what they're saying; they're just predicting the next word. I'm not trying to downplay that, by the way - it's all very impressive. But it's not intelligent intelligent, and I think we should all be wary of comments like "oh we should just keep throwing more compute and data at it and consciousness/self awareness would eventually emerge". I think that's just fodder to raise/burn VC money (and the planet).

I feel like there's heavy observation bias here. Maybe you had a bad experience or two, but I've been living in London for the past 4 years and haven't had any such encounter(s) so far. You make it sound like London's some third world warzone; I personally felt that New York, SF, and LA were far more unsafe when I was living there with the amount of homeless people and fentanyl addicts walking around.

I got into a CS curriculum right after finishing my high school on a whim; I'd always wanted to pursue a career in literature/writing/journalism from a younger age (but couldn't due to personal reasons). Now that I'm almost 27 and have been in the industry for ~5 years now, I'm wondering if I should decide on taking the plunge, or at least plan for it... since I do feel the friction in transitioning getting a bit higher as I spend more time in this field.

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