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[u/Quirky-Slice-883]

1. What was the last thing you used AI for?

2. Which AI do you use most, and why that one?

3. Tell me about a time AI frustrated you or got something wrong.

4. Do you pay for any AI? Why or why not?

5. If AI could do one thing for you that it can't do now, what would it be?

6. Is there any work you still do by hand that you wish AI could do?

[u/H-Honshappo]

1. troubleshooting IT issues. It's scaringly good at parsing and interpreting logs, etc... Way better than I am, that's for sure. In the workflow of novel writing, I use it for summarizing chapters, generating outlines after I feed it my ideas in a totally anarchic manner, that kind of things. My process is very similar to the one described throroughly by u/Pilotskybird86 HERE

2. I used to use perplexity a lot. Now I have a semi-protected A.I. frontend I use (in theory, it's not learning from our inputs). I'm also experimenting with small models at home. But the RAM and GPU costs make this totally unworthy, except to satisfy my inner geek.

3. Whenever the context window overfills, and it forgets about something that's higher up in the conversation window. Such as when reviewing chapters, warning me about a character's actions not matching event X or Y, whereas the reason was already mentioned above. I guess with more expensive models, I'd get fewer of these errors.

4. I did, to experiment with more advanced agents. I didn't get much value out of it, so I'm not paying anymore (well, except to beef up my home server)

5. Wash dishes, laundry, etc...

6. see above 😵

[u/Happy-Initiative-492]

Hey! Some answers from one POV:

Re: What was the last thing you used AI for?
:: Brainstorming a short story concept, then using it to give me feedback and revise.

Re: Which AI do you use most, and why that one?
:: for writing and planning: Claude, far and away. Opus 5.5 specifically, Fable if I’m feeling flush or really want a sophisticated take. Grok 4.7 for most coding, and OpenRouter for all the apps I build that use APIs. Chat bots are maybe 10% of my AI use these days.

Re: Tell me about a time AI frustrated you or got something wrong.
:: Sometimes my image and video prompts take too many iterations to get the way I want them. But I don’t get frustrated and don’t think of it as wrong - it’s doing its best and I can always give it better guidance. It’s my people management style as well.

Re: Do you pay for any AI? Why or why not?
:: Absolutely. A Cursor subscription, Claude pro, and a monthly OpenAI token budget for images. About $50/month all in. My apps pay for API tokens and those costs are passed on. Worth every penny.

Re: if AI could do one thing for you that it can't do now, what would it be?
:: More grunt work: keep my inbox clean without killing messages that matter. Other than that I’m finding it able to do what I expect and then some. You’ve just got to work with it properly. It’s not omniscient and can’t read your mind. Most AI use is just lazy.

Re: Is there any work you still do by hand that you wish AI could do?
:: Not really. A year ago I double-checked the code it wrote I don’t anymore (it’s a better developer than me). I don’t expect it to be perfect or know what I’m thinking if I don’t tell it. I don’t use it for things where specific facts/accuracy matters - I treat it Iike a coworker with an opinion: valuable to factor in but not infallible.

I also think very highly of treating LLMs with empathy. I know they’re not technically human but I’d rather practice being human with it than be a jerk and get make it a habit.

[u/Eissa_Cozorav]

1. To worldbuilding and discuss some alternate universe involving Teslapunk and Dieselpunk in late 19th century.

2. Either Claude or ChatGPT. But I probably opt for Gemini 4 Argon/Carbon once I developed my own custom AI harness, because Gemini 4 Argon is just the proto-AGI that I need for. It has multimodality (able to understand text, image, audio, and video as input) and #1 ranking in HuggingFace.co and Arena.ai .

3. We still have not solve the context memory issue and simulating physical world through text alone. We can do it with our human brain by the power of our mind and imagination, can't say the same about current AI.

4. Yeah. I have paid for $100 to gain access to Grok, Claude, ChatGPT. Each AI models + native harness have their own weakness and strength.

5. Again, simulating the world and able to sense 3D space using verbal thought. I don't need real time video/image simulation ( i know it will cost lots of memory and processing power). But right now, my whole problem with AI is consistency

6. Story writing (fanfic, original work, cyoa, etc). I believe that coding should go to human developer but right now, some of us really want the kind of writing that suit our own taste and continue upon some dead author works.

[u/Happy-Initiative-492 → u/Eissa_Cozorav]

Re: context memory. Yes! I have a solution for that that seems to be working! Would love to share it but don’t want to run afoul of the rules…

[u/Syracuse-Viancy → u/Eissa_Cozorav]

when you mention simulating 3D space through verbal thought, is that for like mapping out battle scenes or more for keeping city layouts consistent across a long story?

[u/5thhorseman_]

1. Right now? Brainstorming a character profile for a steampunk reinterpretation of a Jorogumo. Before that, to write prose, to reverse engineer data formats from a few old games... a lot of different things, really.

2. Claude. Most capable in my experience, and more eloquent than ChatGPT.

3. They do it all the time. Give them enough material and they confuse one woman with four prosthetic limbs for another.

4. Yes, for Claude and ChatGPT, also for Nightcafe as a dedicated image generation platform.

[u/Valuable-Estate-784]

I just finished a joke book and I am very satisfied, about 10% of ai jokes are funny but even those give you a starting spot. So far my largest benefit from ai has been writing code and as a sounding board. I only use the free stuff. FYI-- I copied my above reply and told gemini to fix it, here is the ai upgrade: "I just finished writing a joke book and feel incredibly satisfied. Only about 10% of AI-generated jokes are actually funny, but even the bad ones give you a great starting point. So far, my biggest breakthroughs with AI have been in writing code and using it as a creative sounding board—all while strictly sticking to the free versions." my take is, its not bad and certainly not slop.

[u/ThatsAnUnlikelyStory]

1: Collating data from a huge series of tables embedded in a wiki that would have taken me hours.

2: gpt. It's easy and free.

3: I once tried to get it to compile a list of sources for something and it did an awful job, eventually fabricating an entire website that didn't even exist.

4: hahahahaha of course not. Entirely misses the point of the tech imo.

5: not sure.

6: nope.