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degamad on July 15, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: LLM Inevitabilism

> Did you ever think there's a reason why people are paying for professional tools like Cursor or Claude Code instead of using free ChatGPT?

Because free ChatGPT wasn't useful to them, and someone convinced them that LLMs become useful if you give money to Cursor and Claude?

danielbln on July 15, 2025 [–]

That free swag hammer broke immediately. I therefore conclude that all hammers suck and that I shouldn't spend money to buy a better hammer.

namcheapisdumb on July 15, 2025 | [–]

you really expect hammers to spontaneously break?

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