Creative Professionals Frustrated by AI Limits
Users across various creative fields (writing, coding, mentorship, business) are experiencing significant frustration with AI model limitations. These limitations manifest as usage caps, inconsistent performance, and a loss of context mid-task, hindering productivity and requiring workarounds. The initial hype around alternatives like Claude hasn't fully resolved these core issues.
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“Tbh I’m not sure either - Harvey are quite cagey about exactly what people use it for. It’s not long ago (12mo max) that they were guiding people away from using it as a legal research tool in their official training (presumably because of the…”
“I have Harvey access. Before i had it I thought like you. Using it in real life will change your mind v quickly. Don't want to type an essay here, but its major benefits (apaet from unlimited frontier model usage etc) include extremely robust document editing including red line, ability to handle enormous context windows (like 100k large docs), robust looping and agentic use. Not to mention the review tables etc. It's for lawyers and works amazingly for legal work. Jerryrigging the equiv”
“So the only thing standing between your paid version and the open source version is a couple bucks for a Claude Subscription… you might want to check your business model. I think it’s sad that you didn’t come up with the idea yourself. You better adapt and start finding your own, because seems like you are just busy catching up. On top of that sketchy use of screen recording… there is no reason to trust you. Come back with something original and good for the user.”
“Yes it can although I find Claude follows instructions better. I’ve been a software engineer for over a decade and while it still requires guidance on larger systems and tasks, I’ve mostly not written any code this year. While there are lots of questions about its eventual cost the people who say it’s a fad are frankly just coping. I’m both amazed and terrified about the progress in the code space in the last 6 months alone.”
“Trial and error. Try a Claude or ChatGPT $20 subscription, use that month to throw some application ideas at it that you understand well enough to know what good and bad code looks like. I have "vibe coded" about 8 applications in the past 6 months as a fun pastime. Throughout them you start to understand where the model goes off the rails, where it makes too many assumptions, where it stumbles into performance pitfalls, what trigger words send it spiraling into mistakes. A few observa”
“Not that it can be truly "wasted" anyway and even if it was, we can always make more.”
[Claude] ★★ 2/5 (v1.260716.0) — WHY DID CLAUDE BECOME SO STUPID. It’s a great app overall for questions but for simple task? REALLY?! I THOUGHT THIS WAS A CODING GENIUS APP that’s…
“That's my point. This stuff isn't designed for simple things. You've got a rocket scientist and you're asking it to handle tech support. No shit it's going to struggle I use Claude daily at work because it's a phenomenal tool to expand an existing skill set. I don't know what industry you work in but i design full stack support systems for a manufacturing company. Claude has opened up a new world of potential for me and my team. Its been critical in fasttracking 3 big”
“Claude *Code* to me it the real revolution (not web chat), and all my colleagues are on it.I use it outside my job (sysadmin) a lot, and trying to push my non-IT friends to use it too.To me it is so clear that to use Claude *Code* you need to know the basic of bash... so I really see a huge barrier for my non-IT friends on it.I tried to teach them, but it's clearly a big wall for them: most of them have Mac, and they need to know the basic (e.g. "cd "): even a proper cut/paste of a bash command”
“Why is this better than Claude Cowork, using the same sort of workflow? Using Fable in particular? Any experience?”
“So is that essentially a ‘custom agent’ in claude that can act like an ‘external’ or ‘3rd party’ custom agent? Is that any different than just using a regular Claude chat thats connected with Notion? Like is there any advantage to using this Claude CoWorkers versus a Claude chat as the ‘custom agent’ ?”
“Please read description: I don’t actually have many projects so the deleting projects problem isn’t really an issue for me. I do use it for occasional vibe coding but that’s not the main use case for me. I mostly use it to help me with my work, which is mostly text and image generation. Based on this, and the UI experience, is the classic or new app better? Thanks. submitted by /u/Complex-Poet-6809 [link] [comments]”
“I’ve been hearing more consultants talk about Claude lately, especially for strategy docs, long-form analysis, client notes, research synthesis, and working with large documents. At the same time, ChatGPT still feels like the tool most people know, the one clients recognize, and the default AI assistant in many workflows. Is Claude now better for serious consulting work because of its writing style, context handling, and ability to reason through messy information? Or is ChatGPT still more pract”
“I’m noticing it suddenly doing more hedging, more “devil’s advocate”, more “let me push back on that”. submitted by /u/2717192619192 [link] [comments]”
[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260709.0) — I have watched this company go from great to greedy, stingy and time wasting pricks. What a miserable leadership this project now has, so sad. This was…
“Use Claude more instead of ChatGpt. Claude is better as a coworker that you can assign tasks to.”
“I don't know that I would say that they're targeted at users who are "technologically inept." I have never used Claude, or ChatGPT, or Gemini, or any other similar type of product for any purpose ever, either professionally or personally. I would think that a person making the concscious decision that AI can be useful to them in some form or another have a higher level of technological sophistication than the average person.”
“Was just thinking I could ask Claude to write me an application to do this, but I figure I would as here as I don't really want to reinvent the wheel. 😄 Is there a tool that would allow me to setup to have it check some *.log files every so many minutes or at certain times and if it finds criteria I am looking for to send an email along with the information it found? We have an ERP vendor who allows us to setup jobs to run things like MRP and Costing at night but there is no system in place”
“I recently switched from Opus/Fable to GPT 5.6 Sol, and so far I’ve found it so dumb that it often makes me lose time. I can ask Opus/Fable one thing and I know it’ll take some time but will do it almost perfectly. With GPT I constantly have to steer it; its investigations almost always end up with overreached conclusions after minutes of looking in random places unrelated to the issue; it adds a lot of useless defensive code just like previous 5.x models. I do use AGENTS.md; I have a couple of”
“There was no past where legora or Harvey had proprietary models. They barely even changed the system prompt”
“I use both ChatGPT and Claude for different things but I have certainly used ChatGPT for some coding and mostly technical stuff, and it's never been overly effusive or sycophantic. It's been conversational, straight-forward, informative and effective. I've been using ChatGPT since it first became available to the public. But over the past week, I veered into a completely new realm - I bought a computerized sewing machine at a tag sale. Knowing NOTHING about sewing, I decided to ask C”
“I’ve gotten to where I’ve been using Claude or ChatGPT to “ramble” to. Just today I spoke to Voicenotes (ai note taker), and rambled for a bit. Took that transcript into Claude and gave supplemental repo links and images and helped me draft an email based on that. The topic I was sharing was an overview of a project structure and some of the remaining todos. Rambling into a microphone was way easier than working through a draft over and over.”
“Yeah love the part where you’re recording yourself. I see way too many people just 100% outsourcing the thinking to it.”
“Only if you ignore the tokenization associated with Claude. You can burn through Claude with less than two question.”
My bad. It does. You dont the claude 20x usage subsidy though.
“Gone from using Google to using ChatGPT as Google and Claude as ChatGPT. ChatGPT spits out quick and useful info. Claude writes an essay for most of my queries.”
“I've found ChatGPT great for structuring thoughts and arguments and presentations. I'm a technical PM, came up through coding and operations, so my skills tend more toward detail than big picture - ChatGPT is fantastic at covering that gap. It's also been incredibly useful for data insights. As someone who has access to back end code and order data, being able to use CoPilot et al to identify trends across four years worth of supplier invoices into five or six key trend changes is in”
[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260709.0) — I’m trying to create a study guide and it keeps preventing saying I need to create a new chat and i pressed on it and it still…
“How do I do this as a home user? I have the $99 dollar a year version of Microsoft 365 and it comes with Copilot. My version has projects. They seem very limited and very clunky. There is no way to build an agent. My work version has Notebooks which seem the same but somehow better. The work version of Copilot also seems to have access to a ton of apps and other stuff. I could build an agent here but IT has it locked. Anyway I have been trying to use pages, but it seems like it has a hard time k”
“For writing to my codebase I use Claude code because it can pull in context or you can supply it. I also use the chat for answering questions when I’m stuck. So I use both.”
“Holy essay whatever you do you and use memory I use Claude anyway so none of this affects me”
“This is likely the same restrictions put in place for Claude. Or at least stemming from the same situation - the Dept of Commerce and all that nonsense. Both ChatGPT and Claude have the same super sensitive, super powerful models that trip for innocent things and claim cyber security as the reason. I strongly believe they are linked.”
[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260702.3) — I sent a single message and told I’d need to upgrade to continue chat. I was a GPT refugee, see ya Claude. Ya done goofed
[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260702.3) — My company signed up for paid version and the teams co working projects is not intuitive; setting up “agents” to be working in the background is not…
“For anyone who may be new to video editing have you ever used ChatGPT or Claude to help you with colour grading a video? As in posting a reference photo then getting advice on how to grade it in a program such as daVinci. If so, how did you find it with giving you the right advice and which was better submitted by /u/yozzaa [link] [comments]”
“It's a hard question to answer without knowing your license situation, but I spend a lot of my day job working in Claude and copilot. Like most Microsoft products, the UI for copilot is inexplicably ass - ugly and unintuitive despite there being a dozen examples of better looking wrapper UIs out there. The default copilot agent that everyone first interacts with is not comparable to a fresh session with Claude. I'm not really sure what Microsoft even pitches it as. If you have copilot pr”
“I can tell by the responses that a lot of people likely tried the product early on in its release and/or the free version. Copilot premium when used correctly is actually an incredibly capable tool. Edit: I’ll clarify- IF your work is inside the Microsoft ecosystem, it is very capable*”
“Copilot is just an ai wrapper that integrates with your Microsoft tools. Under the hood it’s just chatGPT or Claude (depending on your preference)”
“I don’t have a good or numerous analogy. But I hate copilot and love the other two. And that’s the consensus at work as well.”
“Since recently, chatGPT has 'work' mode also. so now both Claude and ChatGPT seem to be moving more into the work/productivity space. I have been using Claude and chatGPT a lot and I find them very useful for creating PowerPoints (long time since I made PowerPoints manually, thank god), context management, issue management, .. But many PMs are in Microsoft ecosystem, and I honestly haven't used Copilot yet. So I am curious what is the state of Copilot? How does it match up with Claud”
“I’ve been using Chat GPT Pro for years now and it’s been so useful for my e-commerce business. With my current brand I have a chat thread that I’ve been using for about a year now and it knows every single thing about my business from my financials to my creative strategy as well as any other strategic questions I’ve asked over the year. Recently, I’ve heard that I’m completely missing out by not using Claude over Chat GPT. I’ve heard from multiple people that it is a night and day difference an”
[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260702.3) — Claude is an excellent AI as far as the work it does compared to Gemini and ChatGPT, however the ridiculous usage caps and long wait times make…
“Developer of 14yrs, I hardly ever code anything myself anymore I mainly just review what Claude spits out. Save yourself the headache and get a Claude subscription”
[Claude] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.260702.3) — Tis like having a smart friend to balance ones cognitive thinking about life, friends, questions that require intelligent communication for inquiring minds. Outstanding friend indeed for educated…
[Claude] ★★ 2/5 (v1.260702.3) — I want to love Claude as a tool, but Cowork / dispatch has changed like 4 times in less than a month and their auto updates break…
“ChatGPT itself probably can't, but Codex would do decently well, especially with GPT 5.6. In my experience, Claude seems better at big-picture architecture and at understanding ideas from vague prompts, but Codex is powerful when you are specific enough.”
“Do you think ChatGPT can fulfill this as well or is Claude the only real player here”
“Yap, 2 different sessions for 2 different B2B apps, incredibly complex workflows in each!”