Ask HN: Having terrible time with paid versions of ChatGPT and Claude

> Code is MacOS

What do you mean by this? Applescript isn't a super common language these days and you gotta acknowledge it's not what LLMs are finetuning on. You might be better off asking for a zsh script that does the same thing.

My experience with Claude has been positive as long as the code itself is broken down into ~500 SLOC or less in each module. Huge run-on programs don't seem to play nice with modern context windows.

>Often requested to 'start a new chat limit reached'.

Are you using one conversation thread to implement lots of features? That's not recommended as the huge context makes the model behaviour unstable. Restart the conversation with an updated prompt when reaching the end of tasks and assuming it has all the required information the new conversation will perform better.

It’s been pretty hit or miss for me with Copilot. Between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, I’ve had the best luck with Gemini. Different models may work better or worse with what you’re trying to do.

Generate multi-shot prompts of previous requests and successful outputs.

LLMs below Opus produce a surprisingly high rate of malformed bash commands that have to be corrected iteratively or just shown the right way from the beginning using aforementioned multishot prompting.

For claude web app the best way to have the agent remember things is to have it open up a running todo list in an artifact that you ask for it to frequently update.

I'm getting claude code to one shot deployment scripts. It's pretty great.

Sometimes it works well. Sometimes it doesn't.

Opus and o3 usually work ok for me, meaning they get the job done with some steering.