Similar experience, I try so hard to make AI useful, and there are some decent spots here and there. Overall though I see the fundamental problem being that people need information. Language isn't strictly information, and the LLMs are very good at language, but they aren't great at information. I think anything more than the novelty of "talking" to the AI is very over hyped.

There is some usefulness to be had for sure, but I don't know if the usefulness is there with the non-subsidized models.

what does subsidization have to do with your use of a thing?

I don't think I would use it if I were paying the real costs, and not a ~90% VC funded mark down.

yeah, but why does the fact that it's vc subsidized matter to you? the price is the price. I don't go to the store and look at eggs and lettuce and consider how much of my tax money goes into subsiding farmers before buying their products. maybe the prices will go up, maybe they'll go down due to competition. Thai doesn't stop me from using them though.

Because if they're not covering their costs now, then eventually they will which either means service degradation (cough ads cough) or price increases.

I applaud the GP for thinking about this before it becomes an issue.

Which, as we know, is what killed YouTube and no one uses that anymore.

Youtube has billions of dollars in ads revenue, and the word on the street is that just covers their costs.

Perhaps we could help if you shared some real examples of what walls you’re hitting. But it sounds like you’ve already made up your mind.

It's worth actually trying Cursor, because it is a valuable step change over previous products and you might find it's better in some ways than your custom setup. The processes they use for creating the context seems to be really good. And their autocomplete is far better than Copilot's in ways that could provide inspiration.

That said, you're right that it's not as overwhelmingly revolutionary as the internet would lead you to believe. It's a step change over Copilot.

Do you mean that you have successfully managed to get the same experience in cursor but in neovim? I have been looking for something like that to move back to my neovim setup instead of using cursor. Any hints would be greatly appreciated!

Start with Avante or CopilotChat. Create your own Lua config/plugin (easy with Claude 3.5 ;) ) and then use their chat window to run copilot/models. Most of my custom config was built with Claude 3.5 and some trial/error/success.

The entire wrapped package of tested prompts, context management etc. is a whole step change from what you can build yourself.

There is a reason Cursor is the fastest startup to $100M in revenue, ever.