Let’s see if those folks saying they’ve doubled their productivity will pay.
At $200/m merely having a great AI (if it even is that) without insanely good tooling is pointless to me.
For the latter, Claude is great, but for the former, my usage pattern would be poorly served by something that costs $200 and I get to use it maybe a dozen times a month.
A lot of tradeoffs to evaluate and it can be tiring onboarding people, let alone onboarding an AI.
Maybe it would massively improve my job if the AI could just grab the whole codebase, but we're not there yet. Too many LOC, too much legal BS, etc.
How much better will this be for my uses? Based on my experience with o1, the answer is "fairly marginal". To me, o1 is worse than the regular model or Claude on most things, but it's best for something non-numeric that requires deep thought or new insights. I'm sure there are some people who got a huge productivity boost from o1. This plan is for those people.
That, or I am actually a much better developer and writer than I thought. Because while LLMs certainly have become useful tools to me. They have not doubled my productivity.