Ask HN: Navigating AI Tooling Choices

I'm having the same questions. Currently, and this might change rapidly, the new GitHub Copilot provides the best cost/benefit solution. For $10, you have access to the best models, and with a Composer feature similar to Cursor, that edits multiple files in your code base.

But if you want to experiment with many open LLMs instead, I suggest you use OpenRouter. It gives you access to any model with a single api key.

I'm currently subscribed to both ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro, but if I had to choose only one, I'd stick with ChatGPT. The message limits are more flexible, especially with unlimited mini-usage, which lets me experiment and iterate freely. With Claude, I frequently hit the message limits, which makes me hesitant to use it at all—like saving items in a game only to never use them, ultimately defeating the purpose.

im on supermaven $10 and they provide free premium chat to openai and anthropic.

cursor is nice but it messes a lot with my hud / field of vision. it's like driving a bike but you have car handbrakes.

why are you paying for cursor? use copilot and pass your anthropic / openai key (will charge you per usage) in cursor

copilot will give you access both to o1 and claude 3.5.