ChatGPT
13 recommend 9 criticize 6 moved to it 6 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“it can synthesize things I've said before in passing to show patterns over time, which is the killer app”satvikpendem, 2026-10-30original comment ↗
“GPT 6 (can't remember if it was Sol or Astra) and Fable 5.1 both recommended FaaS like Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda which fit fairly well with the requirements.”nijave, 2026-09-26original comment ↗
“I'm surprised at how much easier it is to talk to.”declan_roberts, 2026-09-22original comment ↗
“ChatGPT is what I subscribe to now after I cancelled my Claude subscription because it found tge responses verbose, condescending.”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“Prior to AI being good enough to do this on its own, I used Canva, and before that it was Photoshop”al_borland, 2026-08-25original comment ↗
“I switched from claude to gpt when 5.6 came out for the same reasons.”justinbaker84, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“GPT-5.6 so far has been a significantly better technical writer in my opinion, and it's much faster in conversations.”ferris-booler, 2026-08-10original comment ↗
“It is better at following instructions and boundaries set during prompt.”m3h, 2026-06-30original comment ↗
“I personally appreciate GPT 5.5 toned-down, objective style”kaspermarstal, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
“Claude has taken lead in coding task but GPT 5.5 has come stronger.”kramit1288, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
“Until it didn't, as GPT and Gemini models made a leap.”flail, 2026-05-15original comment ↗
“my experience is I can one shot my entire IAC with a well defined spec with ChatGPT to generate CDK code.”raw_anon_1111, 2026-02-02original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“But as a buyer, why would you want OpenAI to play middleman when you can have the LLM itself vet the stores?”theturtletalks, 2026-08-07original comment ↗
“I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours.”boron1006, 2026-07-14original comment ↗
“GPT's code ends up way more verbose/complex/overengineered than it needs to be.”mschuetz, 2026-06-27original comment ↗
“With what I do ChatGPT does nott feel great to use.”2020science, 2026-03-30original comment ↗
“There was another comment I recall from today, discussing how OpenAI is not-so-subtly adopting a social-network-esque model, in how it's fine-tuned its chat system to…”read full quote
“There was another comment I recall from today, discussing how OpenAI is not-so-subtly adopting a social-network-esque model, in how it's fine-tuned its chat system to always suggest another question that the user might want to ask.”
“I have moved from gpt and haven't looked back.”m348e912, 2026-01-08original comment ↗
“Now it's a crap-shoot with an LLM instead of being able to peruse great answers from different perspectives to common problems and building out my own solution.”troyvit, 2026-01-04original comment ↗
“The answer to this (throughout the ages) should be the same: read the authoritative source of information.”ryandrake, 2025-12-03original comment ↗
“I’ve recently switched from OpenAI as my daily ‘helper’ chatbot to Gemini (I’ve done it with Claude in the past and still use that for coding) and don’t miss ChatGPT.”helsinkiandrew, 2025-11-30original comment ↗
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Hackers moved from ChatGPT to
- ChatGPT → Claude (3 hackers)
- ChatGPT → Gemini (2 hackers)
- ChatGPT → Perplexity (1 hacker)
Hackers moved to ChatGPT from
- Claude → ChatGPT (5 hackers)
- Canva → ChatGPT (1 hacker)
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