Ask HN: Almost 3 years since ChatGPT. What tools do you use?
Really curious what is working and what is not working for people. I want to understand what tools do you use on a daily basis that are AI native, that you pay for. Here's my stack
Cursor - daily, i pay and go over the $20 limit every month
ChatGPT - almost daily, i pay $20
Granola - almost daily, less than ChatGPT, I don't pay yet My employer gives us access to ChatGPT, Claude and Deepseek through a self hosted internal platform, and we also have GH Copilot access. We're restricted to these rather than any of the other options for IP reasons. I find Copilot (at least the version we have) to be almost totally useless beyond autocomplete, but I use the internal platform a lot, particularly for redrafting documents to be more polite (I'm a bit of a grump). I've found that the context I can be bothered to paste into that is good for getting ideas in SW off the ground but I find reliability to be mixed. I tried to implement a modification to some code in Go using concurrency recently (not a topic I'm very familiar with and so would have struggled to do alone) and for e.g. the code it outputted deadlocked and despite a lot of prompting, I couldn't resolve it. I Use ChatGPT Plus on a daily basis extensively . Gemini (unpaid) is something what I use as well, as it gives more detailed answers even with fewer prompts. Also gemini helps if I want to quickly understand one particular concept from a answer provided by gpt