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Re: ChatGPT Pro

#281

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> In other words, it's a con. A con like that wouldn't last very long. This is for people who rely enough on ChatGPT Pro features that it becomes worth it. Whether they pay for it because they're freelance, or their employer does. Just because an LLM doesn't boost your productivity, doesn't mean it doesn't for people in other lines of work. Whether LLM's help you at your work is extremely domain-dependent.

>Whether LLM's help you at your work is extremely domain-dependent. I really doubt that, actually. The only thing that LLMs are truly good for is to create plausible-sounding text. Everything else, like generating facts, is outside of its main use case and known to frequently fail.

That opinion made sense two years ago. It's plain weird to still hold it today.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#285
$200 / mo is leaving a lot of money on the table.

there are many who wouldn't bat an eye at $1k / month that guarantees most powerful AI (even if it's just 0.01% better than competition), and no limits on anything.

y'all are greatly underestimating the value of that feeling of (best + limitlessness). high performers make decisions very differently than the average HN user.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#286

Part of my justification for spending $20 per month on ChatGPT Plus was that I'd have the best access to the latest models and advanced features. I'll probably roll back to the free plan rather than pay $20/mo for mid tier plan access and support.

That's a weird reaction. You're not getting any less for your $20.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#288
OpenAI is flying blind

They should have this tier earlier on, like any SaaS offering that had different plans

They focus too much on their frontend multimodal chat product, while also having this complex token pricing model for API users and we cant tell which one they are ever really catering towards with these updates

all while their chat system is buggy with its random disconnections and sessions updates, and produces tokens slowly in comparison to competitors like Claude

to finally come around and say pay us an order of magnitude more than Claude is just completely out of touch and looks desperate in the face of their potential funding woes

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#289
The $200/month price is steep but likely reflects the high compute costs for o1 Pro mode. For those in fields like coding, math, or science, consistent correct answers at the right time could justify the cost. That said, these models should still be treated as tools, not sources of truth. Verification remains key.

Re: ChatGPT Pro

#290

I consistently get significantly better performance from Anthropic at a literal order of magnitude less cost. I am incredibly doubtful that this new GPT is 10x Claude unless it is embracing some breakthrough, secret, architecture nobody has heard of.

Yeah, I've switched to Anthropic fully as well for personal usage. It seems better to me and/or equivalent in all use cases.
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