{"slug": "chatgpt", "name": "ChatGPT", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for chat, search, coding, voice and image tasks.", "recommenders": 159, "commenters": 422, "warners": 77, "score": 118.066, "rising": 32.6, "first": "2025-11-01", "latest": "2026-10-31", "why": "Commenters use it for web search and research, coding help and planning, and voice conversations and tutoring.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 167, "neutral": 194, "compare": 23, "warn": 82}, "spark": [10, 10, 10, 4, 8, 4, 5, 26, 24, 29, 16, 21], "listed": true, "loved": ["Coding help", "Search and research"], "caveat": "Errors, hallucinations", "short_quote": "I think ChatGPT is a great advance in terms of medical help in my opinion and I recommend it to everyone.", "icon": true, "domain": "chatgpt.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://chatgpt.com", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["ChatGPT", "ChatGPT Desktop", "ChatGPT 5.2", "ChatGPT 5.5", "ChatGPT 5.1", "ChatGPT desktop app", "ChatGPT 5", "ChatGPT 3.5"], "verdict": [{"text": "Commenters use it for web search and research,", "cites": [{"id": 794698208, "item_id": 49668638, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668638", "by": "donmcronald", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ChatGPT for almost all my searches now.", "excerpt": "I use ChatGPT for almost all my searches now. I\u2019m not joking.", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "Google Search", "story": "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"}, {"id": 801250016, "item_id": 50078126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078126", "by": "tshaddox", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.", "excerpt": "I use the ChatGPT general purpose interface rather than Claude, and this is not at all my experience. ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.", "context": "", "use_case": "queries about recent events", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 792586834, "item_id": 49536677, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536677", "by": "Aurornis", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If I want to do actual research or AI assisted web searching I have Claude or ChatGPT do it. The results are so much higher quality", "excerpt": "I used one of the 12-month free Perplexity offers when they were everywhere. It felt slightly useful at first for simple queries where I didn\u2019t want to go through the top 10 Google results manually. If I was looking for a specific recipe I remembered or a help page or user manual it would usually find it quickly. Then they started optimizing for speed of responses over quality of results. I can enter a query and see ", "context": "", "use_case": "research and web searching", "switched_from": "Perplexity", "story": "Three sites made 215,128 \u201cbest software\u201d pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"}]}, {"text": " coding help and planning,", "cites": [{"id": 800016321, "item_id": 50001020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001020", "by": "latentsea", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for things I know will be quite hard I tend to get ChatGPT to do the planning. Works very well.", "excerpt": "I use Qwen3.8-27B as a daily driver, and for things I know will be quite hard I tend to get ChatGPT to do the planning. Works very well.", "context": "", "use_case": "planning hard tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"}, {"id": 795588321, "item_id": 49724270, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724270", "by": "paride5745", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For coding and image editing, right now I find ChatGPT superior.", "excerpt": "Same here. I use gemini for everything not-coding, from doing research, to have custom personas for more niche topics (and feeding more detailed knowledge in these cases). For coding and image editing, right now I find ChatGPT superior. And for software architecture designs or planning Claude is the best since a while. I still have to try Grok to be fair.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and image editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 801259043, "item_id": 50078690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078690", "by": "jedberg", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT.", "excerpt": "I use all three browsers on a daily basis. Chrome for accessing google owned properties and things I click on from Google search, Safari for reddit and hacker news, and Firefox for everything else. Safari is always the best on my Mac, but my complaint has always been the lack of plugins. But just now I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT. I told it I already have it installed in Chro", "context": "", "use_case": "porting browser extensions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}]}, {"text": " and voice conversations and tutoring.", "cites": [{"id": 795485904, "item_id": 49717869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717869", "by": "ghoshbishakh", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love talking to chatgpt voice mode.", "excerpt": "I love talking to chatgpt voice mode. Voice to voice AI is the only big leap that I see after the RL trained coding models.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 801250608, "item_id": 50078163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078163", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Overall love hearing how other people are using chatGPT voice and or any other AI voice conversationalist tech.", "excerpt": "Really? On my iPhone 15 Pro Max (older iphone) each time i want to have a complete conversation with it I have to constantly prompt it with Hey Siri then say next thing in conversation. Is that your experience? I use and have used chatGPT voice while driving for awhile ... here's a very silly example https://www.instagram.com/p/DecaL9Gx6li/ . Besides that silly example im in school now and give chatGPT all my notes t", "context": "student", "use_case": "voice quizzes while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 798965536, "item_id": 49935346, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935346", "by": "mindcrime", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT is amazing as a tutor and teacher.", "excerpt": "I love AI. OK, OK... maybe that's a overly broad statement. I do have concerns about the long-term implications of advancing AI, and I do mostly prefer not to engage with 100% AI generated content (Youtube videos that are fully AI generated, AI-written blog posts, etc). BUT. As far as using AI goes, I think it's great. And I'm not just talking about coding. In fact, coding is a small part of it for me. I mainly value", "context": "hobbyist researching neuromorphic computing", "use_case": "tutor and lab assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Makes Me Sad"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is errors and hallucinations,", "cites": [{"id": 794890609, "item_id": 49680663, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680663", "by": "Jordan-117", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues", "excerpt": "I subscribed to ChatGPT for a few years, but over the holidays noticed that it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues. Trying Gemini as a backup produced much better answers, to the point I switched my subscription. I do everything through the app/website rather than the API; I understand this is pricier but I like having convenient access, a searchable h", "context": "", "use_case": "general Q&A", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 797690593, "item_id": 49855662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855662", "by": "assimpleaspossi", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.", "excerpt": "I find it strange to see people writing articles like this as if everyone has used AI for decades. I've programmed for decades. I thought I retired three years ago but got an offer I couldn't refuse. Already there were little things I'd forgotten how to use. Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write t", "context": "", "use_case": "coding help", "switched_from": "", "story": "One Month Without AI"}, {"id": 800780354, "item_id": 50048772, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048772", "by": "kozikow", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "If you talk to free chatgpt, sure.", "excerpt": "> Almost every time I use an AI chatbot it eventually turns out it's lying to me. I would not trust them with any of the things you mention. If you talk to free chatgpt, sure. But if you launch Opus 5.5 in claude code - for some reason Opus is the smartest for me, even for \"general\" type of questions, when launched from Claude Code. It has harness/prompts optimized for correctness, while more \"customer-grade\" product", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"}]}, {"text": " and some also report a buggy, shifting app interface.", "cites": [{"id": 801297457, "item_id": 50081091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081091", "by": "winrid", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the main chat UI moves around like 3 times during load so you constantly click the wrong buttons", "excerpt": "Lol I have the same thoughts for ChatGPT. How much code are they writing, but the main chat UI moves around like 3 times during load so you constantly click the wrong buttons. How does this not infuriate anyone that works there? I've actually switched to claude's mobile site for more queries now.", "context": "", "use_case": "chat queries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 796970848, "item_id": 49810678, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810678", "by": "XCSme", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "70% of the times is unusable and buggy", "excerpt": "I use a lot of ChatGPT remotez and 70% of the times is unusable and buggy (prompts disappear, a lot of errors, buttons don't work, etc.)", "context": "", "use_case": "remote use", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Coding help", "summary": "Used for planning hard tasks, porting plugins and quickly building small apps.", "quotes": [{"id": 800016321, "item_id": 50001020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001020", "by": "latentsea", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for things I know will be quite hard I tend to get ChatGPT to do the planning. Works very well.", "excerpt": "I use Qwen3.8-27B as a daily driver, and for things I know will be quite hard I tend to get ChatGPT to do the planning. Works very well.", "context": "", "use_case": "planning hard tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"}, {"id": 801259043, "item_id": 50078690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078690", "by": "jedberg", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT.", "excerpt": "I use all three browsers on a daily basis. Chrome for accessing google owned properties and things I click on from Google search, Safari for reddit and hacker news, and Firefox for everything else. Safari is always the best on my Mac, but my complaint has always been the lack of plugins. But just now I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT. I told it I already have it installed in Chro", "context": "", "use_case": "porting browser extensions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801946368, "item_id": 50121648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121648", "by": "BizarroLand", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Talked to chatgpt and 20 minutes later on their $20/m plan I had an app", "excerpt": "I work in the courtrooms sometimes for some lawsuits and we use the ATEM Mini Pro to switch between ipads and pcs for both defense and plaintiffs sides. Normally, when I'm running tech, the switcher is right next to me, easy peasy. But recently I've been in cases where I have to sit far away due to the court layouts. They can be controlled over network, but our setup requires that the devices have no internet connect", "context": "works tech in courtrooms", "use_case": "building ATEM control app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using AI to reverse engineer hardware"}]}, {"label": "Search and research", "summary": "Several commenters now use it instead of Google or Perplexity for searches.", "quotes": [{"id": 794698208, "item_id": 49668638, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668638", "by": "donmcronald", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ChatGPT for almost all my searches now.", "excerpt": "I use ChatGPT for almost all my searches now. I\u2019m not joking.", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "Google Search", "story": "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"}, {"id": 801250016, "item_id": 50078126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078126", "by": "tshaddox", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.", "excerpt": "I use the ChatGPT general purpose interface rather than Claude, and this is not at all my experience. ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.", "context": "", "use_case": "queries about recent events", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 792586834, "item_id": 49536677, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536677", "by": "Aurornis", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If I want to do actual research or AI assisted web searching I have Claude or ChatGPT do it. The results are so much higher quality", "excerpt": "I used one of the 12-month free Perplexity offers when they were everywhere. It felt slightly useful at first for simple queries where I didn\u2019t want to go through the top 10 Google results manually. If I was looking for a specific recipe I remembered or a help page or user manual it would usually find it quickly. Then they started optimizing for speed of responses over quality of results. I can enter a query and see ", "context": "", "use_case": "research and web searching", "switched_from": "Perplexity", "story": "Three sites made 215,128 \u201cbest software\u201d pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"}]}, {"label": "Learning and repairs", "summary": "Praised as a tutor and for guiding hardware, electronics and home repairs.", "quotes": [{"id": 798965536, "item_id": 49935346, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935346", "by": "mindcrime", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT is amazing as a tutor and teacher.", "excerpt": "I love AI. OK, OK... maybe that's a overly broad statement. I do have concerns about the long-term implications of advancing AI, and I do mostly prefer not to engage with 100% AI generated content (Youtube videos that are fully AI generated, AI-written blog posts, etc). BUT. As far as using AI goes, I think it's great. And I'm not just talking about coding. In fact, coding is a small part of it for me. I mainly value", "context": "hobbyist researching neuromorphic computing", "use_case": "tutor and lab assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Makes Me Sad"}, {"id": 795941984, "item_id": 49746374, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746374", "by": "hackmack10", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It can help you repair all types of stuff", "excerpt": "I used ChatGPT the other day to resink a CPU with termal paste, replace a PSU in my PC and snake my kitchen sink from the wall. I didn't exactly need it's help but wanted someone looking over my shoulder so to speak. It can help you repair all types of stuff, but as far as county / building codes and such, that probably isn't far off. It seems to understand things quite well.", "context": "", "use_case": "DIY PC and plumbing repair", "switched_from": "", "story": "Astra for Law"}, {"id": 795843314, "item_id": 49740207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740207", "by": "fsniper", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They are great help and provide me invaluable advice.", "excerpt": "I have been using Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok (whatever is available) to create esp32 boards. As I am very new into this field, I mostly use them to query about schematics, ICs, routing, kicad, electronic foundations and so on. They are great help and provide me invaluable advice. However It's always better to validate one's result with others. I have many cases where they would provide me catastrophic advice and a", "context": "new to electronics", "use_case": "ESP32 board design help", "switched_from": "", "story": "This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5"}]}, {"label": "Voice mode", "summary": "Commenters enjoy voice conversations and say it understands their speech well.", "quotes": [{"id": 795485904, "item_id": 49717869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717869", "by": "ghoshbishakh", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love talking to chatgpt voice mode.", "excerpt": "I love talking to chatgpt voice mode. Voice to voice AI is the only big leap that I see after the RL trained coding models.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 801250608, "item_id": 50078163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078163", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Overall love hearing how other people are using chatGPT voice and or any other AI voice conversationalist tech.", "excerpt": "Really? On my iPhone 15 Pro Max (older iphone) each time i want to have a complete conversation with it I have to constantly prompt it with Hey Siri then say next thing in conversation. Is that your experience? I use and have used chatGPT voice while driving for awhile ... here's a very silly example https://www.instagram.com/p/DecaL9Gx6li/ . Besides that silly example im in school now and give chatGPT all my notes t", "context": "student", "use_case": "voice quizzes while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801181857, "item_id": 50073866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073866", "by": "azuanrb", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT and Claude have no trouble understanding what I\u2019m saying", "excerpt": "Anything powered by Siri is pretty much a failed product to me right now. I\u2019ve been using the new Siri for a while, and it\u2019s okay, but it still fails on most of my requests. Maybe it\u2019s my accent? But ChatGPT and Claude have no trouble understanding what I\u2019m saying, so I\u2019m not sure what the issue is. I saw some discussion about potentially being able to use ChatGPT or Claude as Siri\u2019s backend instead of Apple Intellig", "context": "", "use_case": "voice understanding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}]}, {"label": "Integrations", "summary": "Connections to Gmail and Drive and the desktop apps save users time.", "quotes": [{"id": 798500769, "item_id": 49906298, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906298", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I already have chatgpt connected to gmail and drive, which is very useful for me and saving me lots of time already.", "excerpt": "That gets you a long way actually. This actually sounds a bit like a tamed version of openclaw. A self learning and adapting always on agent that takes care of stuff for you. And of course they do employ Peter Steinberger who created OpenClaw since early this year. So, I expect it might be borrowing some ideas from that. Probably/hopefully not any of the code. I ran an OpenClaw instance for a few months on a vm. It w", "context": "", "use_case": "email and drive assistant, scheduled tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dots: Always-on agents"}, {"id": 802444000, "item_id": 50152750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152750", "by": "Scea91", "date": "2026-10-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now I am 100% in the ChatGPT desktop app", "excerpt": "I used Claude Code in tmux since January until August. Now I am 100% in the ChatGPT desktop app, because it felt I am doing way too much tinkering amd maintenance of my setup instead of doing real work. Retrospectively, it feels tmux was right choice early this year as the alternatives just weren\u2019t there. It was also fascinating and enjoyable building own workflow from the primitives and I did learn a lot, but the le", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "Claude Code", "story": "Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling"}, {"id": 792122464, "item_id": 49507654, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507654", "by": "iagooar", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "native built-in browser integration, links, etc which the (Mac) desktop apps like ChatGPT or Claude offer", "excerpt": "As much as I love my CLI tools, I just cannot go back to not having native built-in browser integration, links, etc which the (Mac) desktop apps like ChatGPT or Claude offer. I do use Hermes sometimes, but it tends to keep growing skills and overhead over time, to the point it is becoming utterly slow and sluggish. The Desktop experience itself seems vibecoded without taste, in contrast to the core of Hermes, which i", "context": "Mac user", "use_case": "desktop AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"}]}, {"label": "Plan value", "summary": "The $20/month Plus plan is described as good value.", "quotes": [{"id": 803831104, "item_id": 50239444, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239444", "by": "qlte", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm still paying for a ChatGPT Plus plan since $20/mo gives me a lot of value", "excerpt": "The profit comes from the enterprise customers who have to pay for usage at API rates. Not the subsidized subscriptions, which both OpenAI have designed to be unavailable for large enterprises by withholding IAM and auditing features they need except on the usage based entperise plans. As an individual I'm still paying for a ChatGPT Plus plan since $20/mo gives me a lot of value and I use many multiples of $20 at API", "context": "individual user", "use_case": "subscription for general use", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}, {"id": 801946368, "item_id": 50121648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121648", "by": "BizarroLand", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Talked to chatgpt and 20 minutes later on their $20/m plan I had an app", "excerpt": "I work in the courtrooms sometimes for some lawsuits and we use the ATEM Mini Pro to switch between ipads and pcs for both defense and plaintiffs sides. Normally, when I'm running tech, the switcher is right next to me, easy peasy. But recently I've been in cases where I have to sit far away due to the court layouts. They can be controlled over network, but our setup requires that the devices have no internet connect", "context": "works tech in courtrooms", "use_case": "building ATEM control app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using AI to reverse engineer hardware"}, {"id": 801259043, "item_id": 50078690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078690", "by": "jedberg", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT.", "excerpt": "I use all three browsers on a daily basis. Chrome for accessing google owned properties and things I click on from Google search, Safari for reddit and hacker news, and Firefox for everything else. Safari is always the best on my Mac, but my complaint has always been the lack of plugins. But just now I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT. I told it I already have it installed in Chro", "context": "", "use_case": "porting browser extensions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Errors, hallucinations", "summary": "Users report wrong answers, hallucinations and code that needs heavy fixing.", "quotes": [{"id": 794890609, "item_id": 49680663, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680663", "by": "Jordan-117", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues", "excerpt": "I subscribed to ChatGPT for a few years, but over the holidays noticed that it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues. Trying Gemini as a backup produced much better answers, to the point I switched my subscription. I do everything through the app/website rather than the API; I understand this is pricier but I like having convenient access, a searchable h", "context": "", "use_case": "general Q&A", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 797690593, "item_id": 49855662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855662", "by": "assimpleaspossi", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.", "excerpt": "I find it strange to see people writing articles like this as if everyone has used AI for decades. I've programmed for decades. I thought I retired three years ago but got an offer I couldn't refuse. Already there were little things I'd forgotten how to use. Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write t", "context": "", "use_case": "coding help", "switched_from": "", "story": "One Month Without AI"}, {"id": 800780354, "item_id": 50048772, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048772", "by": "kozikow", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "If you talk to free chatgpt, sure.", "excerpt": "> Almost every time I use an AI chatbot it eventually turns out it's lying to me. I would not trust them with any of the things you mention. If you talk to free chatgpt, sure. But if you launch Opus 5.5 in claude code - for some reason Opus is the smartest for me, even for \"general\" type of questions, when launched from Claude Code. It has harness/prompts optimized for correctness, while more \"customer-grade\" product", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"}]}, {"label": "Buggy apps", "summary": "Commenters describe a shifting chat UI, frequent bugs and failing integrations.", "quotes": [{"id": 801297457, "item_id": 50081091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081091", "by": "winrid", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the main chat UI moves around like 3 times during load so you constantly click the wrong buttons", "excerpt": "Lol I have the same thoughts for ChatGPT. How much code are they writing, but the main chat UI moves around like 3 times during load so you constantly click the wrong buttons. How does this not infuriate anyone that works there? I've actually switched to claude's mobile site for more queries now.", "context": "", "use_case": "chat queries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 796970848, "item_id": 49810678, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810678", "by": "XCSme", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "70% of the times is unusable and buggy", "excerpt": "I use a lot of ChatGPT remotez and 70% of the times is unusable and buggy (prompts disappear, a lot of errors, buttons don't work, etc.)", "context": "", "use_case": "remote use", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"}, {"id": 803385681, "item_id": 50211605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211605", "by": "joshstrange", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "multiple rounds of \"I can't see that document\" despite having the plugin configured", "excerpt": "And it doesn't work if you are signed into multiple Google accounts :/ Today I wanted to fix some mixed formatting in a Google Doc. Ok, I'll use Gemini, it's right there and surely it's the best. Nope, fails twice \"Please try again\" then suggests just trash formatting. Ok, fine, I connected this to ChatGPT, let's try that. Nope, multiple rounds of \"I can't see that document\" despite having the plugin configured. Ok, ", "context": "signed into multiple Google accounts", "use_case": "fixing Google Doc formatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides"}]}, {"label": "Sycophantic tone", "summary": "Some find it flattering or uncomfortably humanlike in tone.", "quotes": [{"id": 798662545, "item_id": 49916409, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916409", "by": "landdate", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it is disgustingly scyophantic to the point I was grossed out", "excerpt": "I don't like AI, but it's very enjoyable for me to see my predictions on the success of gemini come to fruition. I only use gemini, and while I don't use it for actually writing up code, I use it to help me troibleshoot my logic and help find bugs. Its easily the best model I have tried. And yes I am talking about 3.1 pro. Also I have found gemini the only model to be the least likely to douse me in flattery, and wil", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 797959312, "item_id": 49872457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872457", "by": "Liftyee", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It still makes me feel odd when ChatGPT says something like \"I feel the same way\"", "excerpt": "It still makes me feel odd when ChatGPT says something like \"I feel the same way\", \"I love xyz\", \"I think ...\", exactly because it can't really feel anything. It defends this behaviour as an abstraction to make the conversation more natural, but that makes it easy to forget that there is no feeling or opinion - only the inputs/outputs resembling one.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "When did Google get so weird?"}]}, {"label": "Images and slides", "summary": "Image generation and PowerPoint creation are called inconsistent or weak.", "quotes": [{"id": 801013008, "item_id": 50063313, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063313", "by": "troupo", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There's no chance in hell they are doing consistent high-quality work in ChatGPT 90% of the time.", "excerpt": "> And it's not low-quality work, it's just the same or better work, done much more efficiently, and without the need of some previously-used products Oh, I highly doubt this. Since I use ChatGPT for generating images quite often. There's no chance in hell they are doing consistent high-quality work in ChatGPT 90% of the time. Or your (and their) definition of high quality work is far from a common definition. This is", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "NYC's \"Click to Cancel\" rule is now in effect"}, {"id": 799115217, "item_id": 49944701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944701", "by": "BOOSTERHIDROGEN", "date": "2026-10-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "while chatgpt struggling to even create basic shapes", "excerpt": "I use opus 5.5 and chatgpt to create PowerPoint, opus really follow the instruction and their PowerPoint generator really well, while chatgpt struggling to even create basic shapes.", "context": "", "use_case": "creating PowerPoint", "switched_from": "", "story": "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"}]}, {"label": "Privacy concerns", "summary": "Some commenters worry about OpenAI training on user sessions.", "quotes": [{"id": 794709088, "item_id": 49669318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49669318", "by": "creativeSlumber", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This says that they trained on user sessions.", "excerpt": "> Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. This says that they trained on user sessions. The de-identification here I believe refers to removing PII, which doesn't matter here because the issue at hand is the content of the researcher's session where they likely discussed their approach tackling the Navier Stokes problem. > Did any human or agent look at user", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI: \"We use ... de-identified data to improve ChatGPT\""}]}, {"label": "Ads and opacity", "summary": "Commenters object to in-app ads and to the desktop app hiding how it stores state.", "quotes": [{"id": 792633536, "item_id": 49539596, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539596", "by": "lnsru", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I saw them today in the app and yeah\u2026 first idea - enshitification.  Ads were cringe.", "excerpt": "I saw them today in the app and yeah\u2026 first idea - enshitification. Ads were cringe. But google works the same way - cringe ads. I use google in 3-4 different languages and it\u2019s completely lost.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"}, {"id": 798878753, "item_id": 49929922, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929922", "by": "hermannj314", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I got sick of OpenAI hiding how ChatGPT Desktop was working.", "excerpt": "I am using pi the same way everyone uses Codex and Claude, but pi makes it very simple to make folders to make the agent behave a certain way and that was easy for me to understand. ChatGPT Desktop seems to intentionally hide what they are doing and where they are storing state, sessions, config, I never had any idea what is in context or what \"archiving\" even means. I got sick of OpenAI hiding how ChatGPT Desktop wa", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}]}], "who": [{"by": "Revanche1367", "context": "uses LLMs for formatting LaTeX a lot", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294078", "date": "2026-10-29"}, {"by": "qlte", "context": "individual user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239444", "date": "2026-10-26"}, {"by": "zahlman", "context": "Python user for over 20 years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223190", "date": "2026-10-24"}, {"by": "BizarroLand", "context": "works tech in courtrooms", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121648", "date": "2026-10-16"}, {"by": "paul7986", "context": "student", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078163", "date": "2026-10-13"}, {"by": "system2", "context": "runs an e-commerce business", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065389", "date": "2026-10-13"}, {"by": "gvsg", "context": "works on a database query engine", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999044", "date": "2026-10-07"}, {"by": "Imustaskforhelp", "context": "18-year-old developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981023", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "mindcrime", "context": "hobbyist researching neuromorphic computing", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935346", "date": "2026-10-02"}, {"by": "blackwaltz0818", "context": "Freelance business analyst", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928891", "date": "2026-10-02"}, {"by": "TeMPOraL", "context": "casual off-work user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878205", "date": "2026-09-28"}, {"by": "HenryBemis", "context": "European", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850143", "date": "2026-09-25"}], "tags": ["for web search", "for coding", "for learning", "for voice chat", "for solo builders"], "use_cases": ["ai assistant", "coding", "coding help", "chat assistant", "ai coding", "web search"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 195, "switched_from": 9, "switched_to": 12}, {"slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "co": 99, "switched_from": 5, "switched_to": 10}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 38, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 40, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "grok", "name": "Grok", "co": 29, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 4}, {"slug": "google-search", "name": "Google Search", "co": 10, "switched_from": 7, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-opus", "name": "Claude Opus", "co": 16, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "perplexity", "name": "Perplexity", "co": 13, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 793826464, "item_id": 49614154, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614154", "by": "tedsanders", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There's no reason to believe that anything they did in ChatGPT led to our solution", "excerpt": "To truly prove some incidental usage data made no difference we'd have to (a) identify any of their de-identified data that came from their usage of ChatGPT, (b) train a bunch of expensive giant models, and (c) ask them all to solve the Navier-Stokes Millenium problem until hitting some level of statistical significance. It's just not feasible to run experiments like this to prove whether a piece of data has an effec", "context": "works at OpenAI", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "On the Navier\u2013Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"}, {"id": 775251696, "item_id": 48453231, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453231", "by": "tboughen", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students. I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help their revision.", "context": "UK teacher", "use_case": "marking essays", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174", "title": "What was your \"Oh Shit\" moment with GenAI?", "mentions": 9}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834405", "title": "GPT\u2011Live", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071017", "title": "Apple HomeView", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715947", "title": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629", "title": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088126", "title": "Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?", "mentions": 4}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 10, "compare": 2, "neutral": 15, "warn": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 12, "recommend": 10, "warn": 5, "compare": 3}, "2026-01": {"warn": 9, "recommend": 10, "neutral": 21, "compare": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 13, "warn": 8, "recommend": 4, "compare": 1}, "2026-03": {"warn": 9, "neutral": 15, "recommend": 8, "compare": 3}, "2026-04": {"warn": 8, "recommend": 4, "neutral": 5}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 12, "compare": 2}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 26, "neutral": 16, "warn": 7, "compare": 2}, "2026-07": {"warn": 10, "recommend": 24, "neutral": 13, "compare": 4}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 29, "warn": 7, "neutral": 25}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 24, "compare": 4, "warn": 9, "recommend": 16}, "2026-10": {"warn": 9, "neutral": 23, "recommend": 21, "compare": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 805138496, "item_id": 50321156, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321156", "by": "NorthSouthNorth", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "that's the only reason I use ChatGPT instead even though I prefer Claude's current model", "excerpt": "Ja, that's the only reason I use ChatGPT instead even though I prefer Claude's current model and their native web app over that of OpenAI.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI assistant", "switched_from": "Claude", "story": "Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age"}, {"id": 804984928, "item_id": 50311558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311558", "by": "SeanAnderson", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it as if it were a close, intimate friend that knows how to listen", "excerpt": "This is tough to answer. Objectively, I use it as if it were a close, intimate friend that knows how to listen, but rationally I am aware it is a pattern-matching machine. I absolutely do not think of it as a boyfriend, girlfriend, or anything like that. I think the subreddits where people treat AIs like partners are forums for the exhibition of mental illness. I do not think of AI as a \"he\" or a \"she\" or even gender", "context": "", "use_case": "journaling, venting, media recommendations", "switched_from": "", "story": "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"}, {"id": 804705250, "item_id": 50294078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294078", "by": "Revanche1367", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Gemini so far has also had terrible computer-use capability or tool-use capability compared to ChatGPT", "excerpt": "I had been on the pro plan for a few months and recently upgraded to the $200.00 AI Ultra plan because I've gotten good mileage out of 3.8 flash while keeping in mind that it's far from perfect. Argon is better in my experience in terms of reliability (especially in not claiming to have done things it clearly didn't) but I have to agree with the hallucination part, for a \"SOTA\" model (before Carbon came out at least)", "context": "uses LLMs for formatting LaTeX a lot", "use_case": "LaTeX formatting and PDF generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"}, {"id": 804700033, "item_id": 50293752, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293752", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These days, I have claude and chatgpt. They search on my behalf.", "excerpt": "Blaming AI is correct but perhaps not the way you think. I think a lot of people actually use other people's AI tools to do their searches now. Google's attempt to grab that back via their own AI tools is so far not really working. Google is no longer the go to tool for answering questions or doing research. I used perplexity for some time. These days, I have claude and chatgpt. They search on my behalf. Sometimes I ", "context": "", "use_case": "web search and research", "switched_from": "Perplexity", "story": "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet\u2019s revenue"}, {"id": 804688017, "item_id": 50293001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293001", "by": "novaRom", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it feels they deliberately made it ridiculously stupid (for fun?). I know, they were first, but today it's a joke.", "excerpt": "I have switched to Mistral free app just from US apps completely recently - it beats for me absolutely all alternatives: ChatGPT - stopped using it like a year ago, it feels they deliberately made it ridiculously stupid (for fun?). I know, they were first, but today it's a joke. Claude - tried it out of curiosity few times, but it's close to nothing when it's about non coding questions. I don't understand how anyone ", "context": "based in EU", "use_case": "daily chat assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"}, {"id": 804582368, "item_id": 50286398, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286398", "by": "closetheloopdev", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Nowadays I ask ChatGPT or Claude instead of Google", "excerpt": "I used to land on SO questions and answers through Google. Nowadays I ask ChatGPT or Claude instead of Google, and then go to the links they give me to verify. The links are either to the official docs or some blog posts. Never have I seen LLMs recommend any SO links.", "context": "", "use_case": "answering technical questions", "switched_from": "Google", "story": "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"}, {"id": 804518464, "item_id": 50282404, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282404", "by": "armcat", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I asked ChatGPT and it answered Joe Biden.", "excerpt": "I asked ChatGPT and it answered Joe Biden. I used Google Search with Gemini summaries and got the same answer. Regarding Google is it geo dependent? Like Lake Ontario?", "context": "", "use_case": "factual question", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google AI Search Refuses to Say Who Won the 2020 Election"}, {"id": 804440897, "item_id": 50277556, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277556", "by": "cedws", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have a mid level Claude and ChatGPT subscription and I\u2019m blasting through my usage", "excerpt": "I\u2019m itching for more smart cheap models. I have a mid level Claude and ChatGPT subscription and I\u2019m blasting through my usage, and I\u2019m too cheap to pay for the higher tier. I use DeepSeek too but it\u2019s more of a workhorse model, requires a lot more guiding and sometimes struggles to get where I want it.", "context": "", "use_case": "general AI use", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon"}, {"id": 804182288, "item_id": 50261393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261393", "by": "raegis", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "every time I use ChapGPT and similar, I get results which take work to optimize, so it saves me little time, if any.", "excerpt": "> One thing I feel like a lot of us are missing is that we no longer have to worry about looking for a missing semicolon, typo, or off by 1 error, or manually combing logs to try and understand a problem. This is what I hope for, but every time I use ChapGPT and similar, I get results which take work to optimize, so it saves me little time, if any. I admit I don't use paid versions of the A.I. stuff, so perhaps this ", "context": "free-tier user", "use_case": "code help", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"}, {"id": 803831104, "item_id": 50239444, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239444", "by": "qlte", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm still paying for a ChatGPT Plus plan since $20/mo gives me a lot of value", "excerpt": "The profit comes from the enterprise customers who have to pay for usage at API rates. Not the subsidized subscriptions, which both OpenAI have designed to be unavailable for large enterprises by withholding IAM and auditing features they need except on the usage based entperise plans. As an individual I'm still paying for a ChatGPT Plus plan since $20/mo gives me a lot of value and I use many multiples of $20 at API", "context": "individual user", "use_case": "subscription for general use", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}, {"id": 803830657, "item_id": 50239416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239416", "by": "ipsum2", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Kimi, chatGPT (Astra/Sol), and Claude (Opus 5.5)", "excerpt": "> much cheaper to access I'm calling BS. I use Kimi, chatGPT (Astra/Sol), and Claude (Opus 5.5), and Kimi is by far the most expensive in terms of tokens and $/work done. Using OpenCode harness.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding work", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}, {"id": 803799792, "item_id": 50237487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237487", "by": "written-beyond", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I got our pocket god ChatGPT to fact check this discussion.", "excerpt": "I got our pocket god ChatGPT to fact check this discussion. No lab is profitable, it is a moonshot to expect they'll ever recover the billions frontier labs have put in behind these DCs. I never understand this argument everyone tries to make, AI is too expensive -> It will get cheaper as they scale -> AI is too cheap and not sustainable -> No it's very profitable on API -> go back to 1. I am not an AI denier, I use ", "context": "", "use_case": "fact-checking", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}, {"id": 803797746, "item_id": 50237359, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237359", "by": "wycy", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I switched to ChatGPT just as Astra came out.", "excerpt": "I did leave. Opus was just pumping out so much verbosity and wasting tokens on all that nonsense, plus I was bitter that Anthropic gates the best model behind usage credits, so I switched to ChatGPT just as Astra came out. Then Opus 5.5 came out and I switched back to Ant after 1 month of OAI. Opus 5.5 fixed all the previous Opus 5 problems, and while Fable still requires credits, there's hardly any need to use it si", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Opus 5", "story": "Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz"}, {"id": 803758417, "item_id": 50234901, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234901", "by": "mmcallister", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "someone using Claude/ChatGPT there is still a human there", "excerpt": "Whilst I agree with most criticism of AI/LLMs but most of the time at the other end of someone using Claude/ChatGPT there is still a human there, a human that is trying to solve a problem or learn something. Maybe I'm naive and it's just all bots scraping sites to build their corpus of data, but at least the way I use AI is to solve problems and build things I couldn't do before (either because of time, or it was out", "context": "", "use_case": "solving problems, learning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making My Blog Readable by AI Agents"}, {"id": 803571040, "item_id": 50223190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223190", "by": "zahlman", "date": "2026-10-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "IMX, ChatGPT usually writes un-annotated new code unless you specifically ask for annotations.", "excerpt": "I work with Python today without type annotations, don't find that kind of type tracking difficult at all, nor do I find the annotations worth the effort. The questions I've seen over the years, meanwhile, from people trying to force the annotation system to do strange things, have suggested to me that people are creating far too much complexity for themselves. Incidentally, IMX, ChatGPT usually writes un-annotated n", "context": "Python user for over 20 years", "use_case": "Python code generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bringing uv and ty together"}, {"id": 803385681, "item_id": 50211605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211605", "by": "joshstrange", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "multiple rounds of \"I can't see that document\" despite having the plugin configured", "excerpt": "And it doesn't work if you are signed into multiple Google accounts :/ Today I wanted to fix some mixed formatting in a Google Doc. Ok, I'll use Gemini, it's right there and surely it's the best. Nope, fails twice \"Please try again\" then suggests just trash formatting. Ok, fine, I connected this to ChatGPT, let's try that. Nope, multiple rounds of \"I can't see that document\" despite having the plugin configured. Ok, ", "context": "signed into multiple Google accounts", "use_case": "fixing Google Doc formatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides"}, {"id": 803309968, "item_id": 50206873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206873", "by": "Razengan", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT often helps me track down some of the people behind my favorite games", "excerpt": "Follow the people, not the brand. They're still around, making good shit elsewhere. ChatGPT often helps me track down some of the people behind my favorite games and check out their later work.", "context": "", "use_case": "researching game developers", "switched_from": "", "story": "EA is shutting down BioWare"}, {"id": 803029712, "item_id": 50189357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189357", "by": "jacquesm", "date": "2026-10-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "ChatGPT in various incarnations has suddenly switched to Chinese in mid-output", "excerpt": "No. I've had pretty much every model I've worked with (list too long to recite) spit out the odd Chinese, Korean, Thai or other Asian chunk of letters from time to time. ChatGPT in various incarnations has suddenly switched to Chinese in mid-output and remained that way until told to switch back. The only one I haven't really seen this from as far as I can recall is Gemini, but then again, I haven't used it as much b", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral Large 4"}, {"id": 802995458, "item_id": 50187216, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187216", "by": "yisraelgottz", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude and ChatGPT all the time for work", "excerpt": "I've been creating products for over a year now, and this was one of those products that changed my day-to-day life. I use Claude and ChatGPT all the time for work, and I was always sick and tired of going into a chat window to do what I needed to do. I wanted to just talk to Claude wherever I was in any app, so that's what I did. I took Hermes, FluidAudio, CUA Driver, WisprKit, and OpenWispr, put it all together, co", "context": "", "use_case": "work", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 802858384, "item_id": 50178649, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50178649", "by": "richardbarosky", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Content from a couple of my ChatGPT 6 Pro sessions about the issue:", "excerpt": "Here's what I did at least. I initially updated the following php.ini setting and verified that it updated via phpinfo(). I understand this to be only a possible mitigation (see below). session.upload_progress.enabled = Off file_uploads = Off According to someone stating they are one of the PHP release managers: \"INI settings alone won't protect you. You need to patch PHP.\" https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1xb2u", "context": "", "use_case": "researching vulnerability", "switched_from": "", "story": "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"}, {"id": 802513920, "item_id": 50157120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50157120", "by": "cowlevel", "date": "2026-10-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I just asked ChatGPT how to make the thing I made", "excerpt": "I tried to write a little project the way an AI would, going gung-ho and not stopping to ask if this is a good design. It actually went okay and now I have a silly thing that wouldn't exist otherwise. It was still slower than an AI, but only took a few days and now I know how the thing works inside, which I wouldn't if I used AI. I don't think programmers can't match AI, I think we don't want the associated responsib", "context": "", "use_case": "design guidance", "switched_from": "", "story": "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"}, {"id": 802444000, "item_id": 50152750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152750", "by": "Scea91", "date": "2026-10-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now I am 100% in the ChatGPT desktop app", "excerpt": "I used Claude Code in tmux since January until August. Now I am 100% in the ChatGPT desktop app, because it felt I am doing way too much tinkering amd maintenance of my setup instead of doing real work. Retrospectively, it feels tmux was right choice early this year as the alternatives just weren\u2019t there. It was also fascinating and enjoyable building own workflow from the primitives and I did learn a lot, but the le", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "Claude Code", "story": "Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling"}, {"id": 802368736, "item_id": 50148046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148046", "by": "shagie", "date": "2026-10-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For tasks that I've worked with it on, I've been reasonably impressed by it.", "excerpt": "In the \"I wonder if this is in its training set\"... FRACTRAN. Given 2^x return 3^(x^3). https://chatgpt.com/share/6ad58a36-5278-83ea-b1f5-22534915e1e1 I entered two prompts to it: Describe the language FRACTRAN. Write a FRACTRAN program that takes 2^x and finishes with the value of in the 3^y of y = x^3. 4 (2^2) -> 6561 (3^8). Other values may be in other power registers. And it did https://chatgpt.com/share/6ad58a36", "context": "", "use_case": "programming tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "I built a programming language that LLMs can't use"}, {"id": 802238944, "item_id": 50139934, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139934", "by": "lukewarm707", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "If you are using ChatGPT you are just working as a teacher for free.", "excerpt": "I use the automated captcha solvers, stealth browsers, proxy IPs and so on. In regard to ethics, I think this is the right thing to do. The minimum I can do is just to show this is not a matter of excuses or mental gymnastics to trick myself into thinking it's fine. Even if you said, a lot of the public commons is destroyed, I would NOT use bots and cause more destruction because 'everyone else does it' or 'it's a lo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek search and fetch \u2013 $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"}, {"id": 802070226, "item_id": 50129389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129389", "by": "testerius", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it is better to chat with free ChatGPT and do copying-pasting between web chat and code editor", "excerpt": "It sounds great and I hope local LLM/AI will be more powerful and available even on old hardware. I tried llama.cpp with offloading \"all what could be\" to my GPU (GTX 750 Ti 2 GB). I could run local Qwen2.5-Coder quite fast (I do not remember but something like 25-30 t/s). However this model generates bad code (I tried Python and JavaScript). So, for my setup it is better to chat with free ChatGPT and do copying-past", "context": "", "use_case": "coding help", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Llmspeed \u2013 feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware"}, {"id": 801946368, "item_id": 50121648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121648", "by": "BizarroLand", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Talked to chatgpt and 20 minutes later on their $20/m plan I had an app", "excerpt": "I work in the courtrooms sometimes for some lawsuits and we use the ATEM Mini Pro to switch between ipads and pcs for both defense and plaintiffs sides. Normally, when I'm running tech, the switcher is right next to me, easy peasy. But recently I've been in cases where I have to sit far away due to the court layouts. They can be controlled over network, but our setup requires that the devices have no internet connect", "context": "works tech in courtrooms", "use_case": "building ATEM control app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using AI to reverse engineer hardware"}, {"id": 801687314, "item_id": 50105457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105457", "by": "joshstrange", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "through the Claude and ChatGPT apps which would both blow away Siri", "excerpt": "The bug that I think was actually fixed (or maybe I just haven't hit the spot on the roulette wheel again since the beta): - Call Mom - What app should I use? (only offers the default Phone app Immense rage - The only freaking app I've ever used to call her. You didn't even give me a reasonable alternative. We don't talk on FB Messenger/WhatsApp/etc (nor do I use them at all). New Siri is _very slightly_ better for s", "context": "", "use_case": "AI assistant on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801683073, "item_id": 50105192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105192", "by": "TechRemarker", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT is amazing, and knows me and never makes any of those mistakes", "excerpt": "While certainly drastically better than before, it still fails at so many of the basics. I use primarily in the car, when need to be hands free. My requests are almost always say, \"Directions to Starbucks\". Which Starbucks.. and proceeds to list multiple then have to remind it each and every time the one first one... the one closest to me.. the one always go to... etc. So then try to do Directions to Starbucks (Town ", "context": "", "use_case": "AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Siri is so bad at everything"}, {"id": 801319552, "item_id": 50082472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082472", "by": "sixdimensional", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use OpenAI/ChatGPT + FAL.AI MCP to do this regularly and I have minimal issues", "excerpt": "I use OpenAI/ChatGPT + FAL.AI MCP to do this regularly and I have minimal issues, often spending around $3-5 with narration and a newer but inexpensive video model.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating product launch videos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 801297457, "item_id": 50081091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081091", "by": "winrid", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the main chat UI moves around like 3 times during load so you constantly click the wrong buttons", "excerpt": "Lol I have the same thoughts for ChatGPT. How much code are they writing, but the main chat UI moves around like 3 times during load so you constantly click the wrong buttons. How does this not infuriate anyone that works there? I've actually switched to claude's mobile site for more queries now.", "context": "", "use_case": "chat queries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 801259043, "item_id": 50078690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078690", "by": "jedberg", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT.", "excerpt": "I use all three browsers on a daily basis. Chrome for accessing google owned properties and things I click on from Google search, Safari for reddit and hacker news, and Firefox for everything else. Safari is always the best on my Mac, but my complaint has always been the lack of plugins. But just now I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT. I told it I already have it installed in Chro", "context": "", "use_case": "porting browser extensions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801250608, "item_id": 50078163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078163", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Overall love hearing how other people are using chatGPT voice and or any other AI voice conversationalist tech.", "excerpt": "Really? On my iPhone 15 Pro Max (older iphone) each time i want to have a complete conversation with it I have to constantly prompt it with Hey Siri then say next thing in conversation. Is that your experience? I use and have used chatGPT voice while driving for awhile ... here's a very silly example https://www.instagram.com/p/DecaL9Gx6li/ . Besides that silly example im in school now and give chatGPT all my notes t", "context": "student", "use_case": "voice quizzes while driving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801250433, "item_id": 50078152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078152", "by": "paul7986", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use conversational voice AI while driving", "excerpt": "You can have a complete conversation with Siri back and forth like you can with chatGPT without having to constantly say Hey Siri? I use conversational voice AI while driving and with the new Siri i constantly have to use hey siri to keep the conversation going.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801250016, "item_id": 50078126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078126", "by": "tshaddox", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.", "excerpt": "I use the ChatGPT general purpose interface rather than Claude, and this is not at all my experience. ChatGPT will almost always do one or more web searches for any query about recent or historical events.", "context": "", "use_case": "queries about recent events", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 801181857, "item_id": 50073866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073866", "by": "azuanrb", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT and Claude have no trouble understanding what I\u2019m saying", "excerpt": "Anything powered by Siri is pretty much a failed product to me right now. I\u2019ve been using the new Siri for a while, and it\u2019s okay, but it still fails on most of my requests. Maybe it\u2019s my accent? But ChatGPT and Claude have no trouble understanding what I\u2019m saying, so I\u2019m not sure what the issue is. I saw some discussion about potentially being able to use ChatGPT or Claude as Siri\u2019s backend instead of Apple Intellig", "context": "", "use_case": "voice understanding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801177138, "item_id": 50073571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073571", "by": "tkdb", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "So we use ChatGPT or Claude", "excerpt": "Nice very Apple-esque thrust to unify and refine a chaotic field of tech into an elegant experience. I cannot fathom how this will deliver on the vision when Siri, even the new gemini-under-the-hood Siri, is still maddeningly, bafflingly worthless. To be fair, Gemini, for a consumer of the google ecosystem, is also maddeningly, bafflingly worthless. So we use ChatGPT or Claude, with extremely limited access to the ti", "context": "", "use_case": "personal AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple HomeView"}, {"id": 801156161, "item_id": 50072260, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072260", "by": "ChrisMarshallNY", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "compare", "quote": "ChatGPT's context-aware translation is better, but it's not on-device.", "excerpt": "I suspect Apple's strengths are in multi-language support. I use their on-device translation in my apps. Works pretty well. ChatGPT's context-aware translation is better, but it's not on-device.", "context": "app developer", "use_case": "translation", "switched_from": "", "story": "We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model"}, {"id": 801046224, "item_id": 50065389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065389", "by": "system2", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Even ChatGPT 3.5 is more logical.", "excerpt": "As if the remote developers weren't writing spaghetti code or removing vital parts. At least the AI understands intention. A few years ago, one of the Indian developers removed the checkout button from an e-commerce site because I told him there was a specific issue at checkout and I described it in detail. His solution was not letting people check out for 1 whole day until we caught the issue after 300+ emails overn", "context": "runs an e-commerce business", "use_case": "replacing remote developers", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"}, {"id": 801013008, "item_id": 50063313, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063313", "by": "troupo", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There's no chance in hell they are doing consistent high-quality work in ChatGPT 90% of the time.", "excerpt": "> And it's not low-quality work, it's just the same or better work, done much more efficiently, and without the need of some previously-used products Oh, I highly doubt this. Since I use ChatGPT for generating images quite often. There's no chance in hell they are doing consistent high-quality work in ChatGPT 90% of the time. Or your (and their) definition of high quality work is far from a common definition. This is", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "NYC's \"Click to Cancel\" rule is now in effect"}, {"id": 800780354, "item_id": 50048772, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048772", "by": "kozikow", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "If you talk to free chatgpt, sure.", "excerpt": "> Almost every time I use an AI chatbot it eventually turns out it's lying to me. I would not trust them with any of the things you mention. If you talk to free chatgpt, sure. But if you launch Opus 5.5 in claude code - for some reason Opus is the smartest for me, even for \"general\" type of questions, when launched from Claude Code. It has harness/prompts optimized for correctness, while more \"customer-grade\" product", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"}, {"id": 800016321, "item_id": 50001020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001020", "by": "latentsea", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for things I know will be quite hard I tend to get ChatGPT to do the planning. Works very well.", "excerpt": "I use Qwen3.8-27B as a daily driver, and for things I know will be quite hard I tend to get ChatGPT to do the planning. Works very well.", "context": "", "use_case": "planning hard tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"}, {"id": 798965536, "item_id": 49935346, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935346", "by": "mindcrime", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ChatGPT is amazing as a tutor and teacher.", "excerpt": "I love AI. OK, OK... maybe that's a overly broad statement. I do have concerns about the long-term implications of advancing AI, and I do mostly prefer not to engage with 100% AI generated content (Youtube videos that are fully AI generated, AI-written blog posts, etc). BUT. As far as using AI goes, I think it's great. And I'm not just talking about coding. In fact, coding is a small part of it for me. I mainly value", "context": "hobbyist researching neuromorphic computing", "use_case": "tutor and lab assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Makes Me Sad"}, {"id": 797690593, "item_id": 49855662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855662", "by": "assimpleaspossi", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.", "excerpt": "I find it strange to see people writing articles like this as if everyone has used AI for decades. I've programmed for decades. I thought I retired three years ago but got an offer I couldn't refuse. Already there were little things I'd forgotten how to use. Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write t", "context": "", "use_case": "coding help", "switched_from": "", "story": "One Month Without AI"}, {"id": 796970848, "item_id": 49810678, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810678", "by": "XCSme", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "70% of the times is unusable and buggy", "excerpt": "I use a lot of ChatGPT remotez and 70% of the times is unusable and buggy (prompts disappear, a lot of errors, buttons don't work, etc.)", "context": "", "use_case": "remote use", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"}, {"id": 795588321, "item_id": 49724270, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724270", "by": "paride5745", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For coding and image editing, right now I find ChatGPT superior.", "excerpt": "Same here. I use gemini for everything not-coding, from doing research, to have custom personas for more niche topics (and feeding more detailed knowledge in these cases). For coding and image editing, right now I find ChatGPT superior. And for software architecture designs or planning Claude is the best since a while. I still have to try Grok to be fair.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and image editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 795485904, "item_id": 49717869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717869", "by": "ghoshbishakh", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love talking to chatgpt voice mode.", "excerpt": "I love talking to chatgpt voice mode. Voice to voice AI is the only big leap that I see after the RL trained coding models.", "context": "", "use_case": "voice conversations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 794890609, "item_id": 49680663, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680663", "by": "Jordan-117", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues", "excerpt": "I subscribed to ChatGPT for a few years, but over the holidays noticed that it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues. Trying Gemini as a backup produced much better answers, to the point I switched my subscription. I do everything through the app/website rather than the API; I understand this is pricier but I like having convenient access, a searchable h", "context": "", "use_case": "general Q&A", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 794698208, "item_id": 49668638, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668638", "by": "donmcronald", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ChatGPT for almost all my searches now.", "excerpt": "I use ChatGPT for almost all my searches now. I\u2019m not joking.", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "Google Search", "story": "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"}, {"id": 792586834, "item_id": 49536677, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536677", "by": "Aurornis", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If I want to do actual research or AI assisted web searching I have Claude or ChatGPT do it. The results are so much higher quality", "excerpt": "I used one of the 12-month free Perplexity offers when they were everywhere. It felt slightly useful at first for simple queries where I didn\u2019t want to go through the top 10 Google results manually. If I was looking for a specific recipe I remembered or a help page or user manual it would usually find it quickly. Then they started optimizing for speed of responses over quality of results. I can enter a query and see ", "context": "", "use_case": "research and web searching", "switched_from": "Perplexity", "story": "Three sites made 215,128 \u201cbest software\u201d pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"}]}