Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
2 by whatarethembits | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I'm considering $20/month variants only. I've had a Claude subscription for the past year, although I only really started properly using LLMs in the past couple of months. With Opus, I get about 5 messages every 5 hours (fairly small codebase); more with Sonnet. I then cancelled that, since its practically unusable and got ChatGPT sub about a week ago. Currently using it with 5.4 High and I haven't had to worry about limits. But the code it produces is definitely "different" and I need to plan more in advance. Its plan mode is also not as precise as with Claude (it doesn't lay out method stubs it plans to implement etc) so I suppose I may need to change how I work with it? Lastly, for normal chats it produces significantly more verbose output (with personality set to Efficient) and fast (with Thinking) but often it feels as though its not as thorough as I'd like it to be. My question; is this a "you're holding it wrong" type of situation, where I just need to get used to a different mode of interaction? Or are others noticing material difference in quality? Ideally I'd like to stick with ChatGPT due to borderline impractical limits with Anthropic.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?
2 by bhaviav100 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
My agents retry a bit more than it should, and there goes my bill up in the sky. I tried figuring out what is causing this but none of the tools helped much. and the worse thing for me is that everything shows up as aggregate usage. Total tokens, total cost, maybe per model. So I ended up hacking together a thin layer in front of OpenAI where every request is forced to carry some context (agent, task, user, team), and then just logging and calculating cost per call and putting some basic limits on top so you can actually block something if it starts going off the rails. It’s very barebones, but even just seeing “this agent + this task = this cost” was a big relief. It uses your own OpenAI key, so it’s not doing anything magical on the execution side, just observing and enforcing. I want to know you guys are dealing with this right now. Are you just watching aggregate usage and trusting it, or have you built something to break it down per agent / task? If useful, here is the rough version I’m using : https://ift.tt/QguS5hk
2 by bhaviav100 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
My agents retry a bit more than it should, and there goes my bill up in the sky. I tried figuring out what is causing this but none of the tools helped much. and the worse thing for me is that everything shows up as aggregate usage. Total tokens, total cost, maybe per model. So I ended up hacking together a thin layer in front of OpenAI where every request is forced to carry some context (agent, task, user, team), and then just logging and calculating cost per call and putting some basic limits on top so you can actually block something if it starts going off the rails. It’s very barebones, but even just seeing “this agent + this task = this cost” was a big relief. It uses your own OpenAI key, so it’s not doing anything magical on the execution side, just observing and enforcing. I want to know you guys are dealing with this right now. Are you just watching aggregate usage and trusting it, or have you built something to break it down per agent / task? If useful, here is the rough version I’m using : https://ift.tt/QguS5hk
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Windows 95–style Weather App for iPhone
Show HN: Windows 95–style Weather App for iPhone
2 by web3rb | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I built a Windows 95–style weather app for iPhone.
2 by web3rb | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I built a Windows 95–style weather app for iPhone.
New ask Hacker News story: GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds.
GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds.
3 by colonelspace | 0 comments on Hacker News.
On a GitHub repo that I was watching, some Chinese spammers created 60,000 issues. The result seems to be a queue of 60,000 emails, steadily hitting my inbox for two days straight. No amount of settings changes on GitHub makes a difference. Nice work GitHub!
3 by colonelspace | 0 comments on Hacker News.
On a GitHub repo that I was watching, some Chinese spammers created 60,000 issues. The result seems to be a queue of 60,000 emails, steadily hitting my inbox for two days straight. No amount of settings changes on GitHub makes a difference. Nice work GitHub!
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Open Source 'Conductor + Ghostty'
Show HN: Open Source 'Conductor + Ghostty'
9 by nwparker | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Our team works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini all day. We love Ghostty, but wanted something where we could work in multiple worktree at once and have multiple agents run. We decided to open source the internal team we use. Hope you might find it useful. Freel free to contribute or fork. * Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, Windows) all tested * MIT License Features: * Notifications, but also manual 'mark-as-unread) for worktrees (like Gmail stars) * Status indicators work for all terminals inside a wroktree * GH integrations (show PR status) and link GH issues * Can add comments to worktrees (stay organized) * File viewer, Search, diff viewer (can make edits + save) Note: Yeah there are "similar" programs out there, but this one is ours. But I'm happy if our software works for you too!
9 by nwparker | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Our team works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini all day. We love Ghostty, but wanted something where we could work in multiple worktree at once and have multiple agents run. We decided to open source the internal team we use. Hope you might find it useful. Freel free to contribute or fork. * Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, Windows) all tested * MIT License Features: * Notifications, but also manual 'mark-as-unread) for worktrees (like Gmail stars) * Status indicators work for all terminals inside a wroktree * GH integrations (show PR status) and link GH issues * Can add comments to worktrees (stay organized) * File viewer, Search, diff viewer (can make edits + save) Note: Yeah there are "similar" programs out there, but this one is ours. But I'm happy if our software works for you too!
New ask Hacker News story: Fear of Missing Code
Fear of Missing Code
3 by lukol | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Talking to developer (and increasingly non-developer) friends of mine, the following pattern has emerged: Many of them are caught in a "just one more feature" loop that keeps them awake late at night, destroys their sleep cycles and has them wondering every waking hour if they spend their Claude Code Max subscription as effectively as possible. You could actually be building a feature while you're grabbing dinner or hitting the gym, so why don't you? Combined with the fact that the current state of AI assisted coding is still far from perfect, this leads to exhaustion. Letting your agent do its thing fully unsupervised only works in few scenarios and reviewing (or at least: QA-ing) the countless things that were built while you were spending time with your friends / family / pets is mentally taxing. How are you handling this?
3 by lukol | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Talking to developer (and increasingly non-developer) friends of mine, the following pattern has emerged: Many of them are caught in a "just one more feature" loop that keeps them awake late at night, destroys their sleep cycles and has them wondering every waking hour if they spend their Claude Code Max subscription as effectively as possible. You could actually be building a feature while you're grabbing dinner or hitting the gym, so why don't you? Combined with the fact that the current state of AI assisted coding is still far from perfect, this leads to exhaustion. Letting your agent do its thing fully unsupervised only works in few scenarios and reviewing (or at least: QA-ing) the countless things that were built while you were spending time with your friends / family / pets is mentally taxing. How are you handling this?