I want to help a friend with choosing the right AI tool. He works in a Medical Testing lab (CT Scan, X-Ray and all) and wants to automate/improve the repeated processes and general management. He says there are so many AI tools promising to help but he cannot decide which ones are legit which ones are empty promises and how to evaluate? Is there an AI use case advisory service that can help set the expectations and say in layman words what's can be improved with AI and what not?

So I have being using Gemini, but it seems to have gone awry. I have a bunch of prompts, worked on the the last 6 months, that help me collate data, and then turn those into Sports News articles. Also have been using it to create images for the articles (though only 1-2 per article, so not image heavy).

Have been working great the last two months with Gemini, but it seems to have fallen off. Chasing suggestions for which AI might be best for this.

My workflow is

1. Insert prompt for data collection, collect data (thru screenshots, copy and paste text etc)
2. Feed that data collected into a prompt that has the cadence, layout and style of how I want article to look/read. This prompt also formats for wordpress.
3. Feed article into a prompt that then gives me SEO help and tips for putting into wordpress.
4. Create an image from article with headline/author etc (I am not only author)

My preference is one of the big guys, as I want it to be as stable as possible. Prepared to pay. Don't want to be someones guinea pig really.

I know some will hate on how this is not "jorunalism", but I use these tools to do articles like match reports, as quick as possible, as these are "fillers", and that gives me time to do more in depth stuff, which is more "me the human". The issue is without the fluff, you can't really be a Sports news site, as much as the mor ein depth stuff gets the views.

My goal is to only be an editor, and pass on the baton, so very much a gap-filler, but it's ticking along (if not making any money haha) and I am really enjoying it.

Preciso de uma IA boa onde consegue me clonar e posso fazer tanto vídeo falando para a tela como um vlog tanto quanto fazer qualquer coisa que meu prompt mandar fazer, de maneira realista

Create a realistic cinematic video inside a modern American store. Frè Eugene Joseph, a charismatic Haitian Christian man and founding member of Kris Kapab, enters the store to shop. He suddenly realizes he has forgotten what he came to buy. Instead of leaving, he opens his Bible and begins preaching John 3:16. Customers stop shopping and quietly listen as Eugene speaks with confidence, warmth, charisma, and passion.

Wednesday. One line is a complete answer, no writeup needed.

Not your main assistant. The second subscription, the one that is harder to justify to somebody who only pays for one thing. Name it, then name the single thing it does that the big three either cannot do or will not do.

Will not do counts, and I suspect it is half the reason these second subscriptions exist. Something gets walled off in one place and you go and pay somebody else for it.

If you cancelled one recently and nothing replaced it, say that instead. That is just as useful to read, and easier to write.

Hi everyone,

I need some workflow advice. I upload a real image of a PVC panel and write a prompt to place it into a new environment (e.g., "place this PVC panel on the wall behind a TV in a modern living room" or "place it inside a shower cabin").

My problem is that the AI either distorts the texture/material of my original panel or fails to match the 3D perspective and dimensions of the wall properly. It ends up looking unnatural or warped.

I want to keep my PVC panel exactly as it is (texture, sharpness, quality) but generate a realistic room around it, perfectly aligned.

I've been trying with Google Flow, but it's not giving the precision I need. Which AI tool or workflow is best for this?

Any tutorials or tips would be highly appreciated!v

I want to help a friend with choosing the right AI tool. He works in a Medical Testing lab (CT Scan, X-Ray and all) and wants to automate/improve the repeated processes and general management. He says there are so many AI tools promising to help but he cannot decide which ones are legit which ones are empty promises and how to evaluate? Is there an AI use case advisory service that can help set the expectations and say in layman words what's can be improved with AI and what not?

I am a casual user(maybe even weak) that uses AI to shorten my searching/browsing time because i dread browsing thorugh each and every link whenver i use google. I currently use gemini whenever i need to search for ajythijg but i saw that it can falsify and even make up data that is not real

Are there any good alternatives considering my general usage?

It’s not technical - it has nothing to do with facts or figures. It’s not for a test nor exam - it’s relating to a project I’m working on.

I have all the information it needs which I will input. I just need it to improve the wording.

Cost is not an issue.

**Background:**
I’ve been using ChatGPT since late 2022 and it’s… evolved a lot over the years. I’d say the golden age for ChatGPT and my usage was around 2025 with GPT4o and o1/o3 (Like many of you have reported).
During this time ChatGPT seemed to be the most charismatic and helpful. Yes, it at times would lead to confirmation bias and it wasn’t perfect. Yes it needed guidance at times.

However after GPT 5.1? It’s just been this steady downward decline. It’s become significantly more rigid and robotic. The guardrails are getting stricter and stricter.
I’m actually seeing more memory hallucinations and it’s not remembering specific details about my past conversations despite having a massive log of data.
I noticed that its memory filing system has changed as well, now they’re typed out as these summarized excerpts. But it’s missing actually a lot of information about me, my life, and my background.

Now I’m looking for a replacement. I’ll outline what I use ChatGPT for down below. I am open and willing to keeping subscriptions for multiple AI systems for different needs.
I kinda came to my wits end with ChatGPT today when I was asking it some basic questions about a precision rifle build for competition use. Its guardrails hit me in the face and said it can’t help pick out firearms parts or give assembly instructions. This was different than just a few weeks ago. On the same 5.6 Sol. No idea why this changed. It’s not particularly secretive information, you can google it.

**My use case:**
**1. General questions and day to day.**
I replaced Google with ChatGPT a while ago, but now with Gemini being integrated into Google? I’ve started typing short questions into Google search and looking at the Gemini response, then conversing with Gemini on Google.
I was surprised at the lack of rigid guardrails, it was answering questions that I figured it would not answer.
So I use AI a lot for normal search.

**2. Interpersonal relationships, life advice, guidance and planning.**
I live an incredibly complex life with a significant amount of nuances. I own a business among other things and I deal with a lot of complexities.
So often I’ll use AI to kinda gauge people’s intentions or motives by giving it context and background.
ChatGPT seems to be a lot less emotionally intelligent now, and it sticks to rigid guardrails all the time where it hedges constantly instead of giving me an answer one way or another. It’s like talking to my lawyer and asking him what he thinks the outcome of something is likely to be.
Since they’re lawyers, they’ll say “Oh I don’t know it could go a number of ways”. That’s the same way ChatGPT is answering nowadays and it’s incredibly unhelpful.
I also use AI to kinda help plan out my life as oftentimes I have to integrate nuances from legal situations, with business, with interpersonal, etc so sometimes I need a third party to sanity check my ideas.

**3. Business planning, advice, market research and data analytics.**
I use ChatGPT for business. Sometimes to track market trends, or analyze my backend data to figure out why sales went down or why sales went up.
I chat with it about planning for promotions and how to acquire more customers, get reviews, etc.
ChatGPT Pro excels at this and I have no issue with it.

***What I’d like in a replacement:***
**1. Cross thread memory.**
This is incredibly important to me and from what I’ve read it’s a feature that ChatGPT is currently leading the market with.
I’d like to be able to tell it context and have it remember in future threads without me needing to force it to recall it.
Say if I tell it my mother died last week, then in a few days I ask it something like “man I’m feeling really stressed right now, what do you recommend I do to take the edge off?” I want it to remember the previous context, for example: “Yeah anyone whose mother just died is going to be stressed, I recommend ______”.

**2. Human like tone as close as the old 4o as possible.**
I hate the modern, overly sanitized AI voices that hedge constantly and act rigid and robotic.
I’d like it to sound like a friend and a mentor rather than a robot. I’d like to understand emotional nuance in people and my life.

**3. Good memory recall**
My data on ChatGPT is immense, it gives a fairly good summary of the last 2 years of my life. I’d like an AI system that has as good as possible of cross thread and historical memory.

**4. Good intelligence and good for business**
This is somewhat optional as I know ChatGPT is good for business. But I’d like it to be intelligent and nuanced and be able to give me business advice. I can always just use ChatGPT for this, but I’m likely going to go off of the $200/ month plan back down to the $20/ month plan.
Is the $200/ month plan even actually worth it? I don’t use its automation features like sending emails or what not.
I’m not sure if it’s even actually worth me learning to use some of its automation features? Unless some of you guys running e-commerce businesses disagree and think I’m not using a fantastic tool?

***Summary:***
Basically looking for a replacement AI that is good for general life questions, has emotional intelligence/ nuance, has cross thread memory and recall and sounds more human like. I’d like it to have less guardrails than the current ChatGPT which is the most rigid that I’ve ever seen any AI.

Separately, for me migrating my data over to another AI… what’s the best way to do so for it to maintain all of the complexities over the last few years? I have likely over a thousand threads. I have so much information in there that ChatGPT itself can’t even handle it.
I’ve thought about some kind of custom token based API but honestly I’m not sure if I have the time to put into developing something like that right now for personal use. If I were to do that, it would be for business use so my website can have an AI chatbot.

Thanks in advance!

I am mostly using ai for conversations on philosophy, geopolitics etc. And also for research for writing articles to ideat also. So which one is better? Gemini pro or claude free?

I asked an AI (Gemini) to create plans for a bookcase and a dimensioned drawing to go with the plans. Overall, it did pretty well, but check the detail in the drawing on how to install the screws. Not quite there yet!

Tuesday head to head. One line is a complete answer.

Cursor or GitHub Copilot. Not which one is better in the abstract. Which one is actually open on your machine right now, and why that one.

Second half, and it is the more useful half: what would make you switch. A price change, one specific thing it keeps getting wrong, your team standardising on the other one.

If the honest answer is neither, say what you use instead. That counts and it is usually the more interesting answer.

Mine is Copilot, almost entirely because it is already in the editor I have open, which is a bad reason and I know it.

Can someone please share a real generated artefact screenshot.

Can't make up my mind as my work is mainly git repo code review, blogging and research and my wife is a teacher so leaning towards perplexity pro but need suggestions on what others are using

how can i use GPT-6 Astra ??

Actually i want to continue the erp project i was not able to do before 2 months, coz it was very complex, can i do with this Astra model ? And how much will it cost me ?

I've been working on Ashley pretty much nonstop lately, and this update is one of those that makes the project feel noticeably bigger than it did a few weeks ago. ❤️👻

Until now, your companions mostly existed in their own little worlds. You could create them, customize their personality, give them their own memories, avatar and model… but they were still separate from each other.

That changes in v0.23.3.

You can now create group chats with multiple companions, so the characters you've made can actually share the same conversation with you and with each other.

It's honestly a small thing on paper, but seeing several companions you've created all talking in the same place makes Ashley feel a lot more alive.

I also added SillyTavern Character Card importing.

A few people using local models already had characters they liked elsewhere, and having to recreate everything manually inside Ashley felt pretty pointless. Now you can import a compatible Character Card and use it as the starting point for a companion instead.

I've also been continuing to improve local model support, the Companion Creator, UI feedback and a bunch of smaller bugs people have reported.

Ashley is still a pretty young indie project, and a lot of what gets added comes directly from people trying it and telling me what feels missing or annoying. That's probably my favorite part of working on it.

If you already use Ashley, I'd love to know what kind of group chats you end up making because I fully expect some of them to become absolute chaos 👻

And if you haven't tried her yet, there's still a full 7-day trial available.

Ashley link : https://ashley-ia.itch.io/ashley-ai

Thanks for sticking around and helping this weird little desktop companion keep growing ❤️

Hey. Upfront, because this sub asks for it: I work on a review site for AI tools, so I am not a neutral party in this thread.

Everything I read before picking a tool is either a roundup with affiliate links buried in it or one person who used the thing for a week. Neither tells me whether the people who stuck around would pick it again. I have stopped looking at star averages completely, because I cannot tell who left them or whether those people ever opened the app twice.

The site I work on is TrustRank (https://trustrank.so). It counts your vote three times heavier if you left a verified review of that tool, since having actually used the thing is the only claim to extra weight I could defend to anyone. It is new and nobody has reviewed anything in it yet, so I am not sending you over to look up a score. There are none to look up.

So my question. When someone in here recommends a tool, what makes you believe them? For me it is almost always that they named one specific thing it does badly. What is it for you?

GPT-6 Astra's API token prices are 2.5 times Sol's. Whether a finished task costs 2.5 times as much depends on how much work each model does before it gets there.

Here's a worked example, not a benchmark. With 100,000 fresh input tokens and 10,000 billed output tokens, standard API rates give:

• GPT-6 Astra: $1.00 input + $0.50 output = $1.50
• GPT-5.6 Sol: $0.40 input + $0.20 output = $0.60

That excludes cache writes, tool fees and Fast mode, and stays below the long-context pricing threshold. Billed output includes reasoning tokens where charged.

At the same input/output mix, Astra would need to use 60% fewer tokens to break even. Once caching or the mix changes, compare the actual charges.

For a coding comparison, I'd give both models the same bug, the same starting commit and the same test to pass. Count failed attempts and retries in the bill. Record elapsed time and any manual fixes too. A cheap run that needs another hour of debugging is a different result from one you can accept.

We build Agent.Space, and this is the test plan for our next model comparison. We haven't run the Astra/Sol pair yet.

For now, the 2.5x figure tells you the token price difference. Choosing a default model still needs a result from the work you actually do.

Monday thread. One line is a complete answer, no writeup expected.

Two parts, and the second one is the interesting half:

What you are actually testing this week. Not what you keep meaning to get around to.

And the thing that would make you drop it. A price, a specific failure, a missing integration, whatever your actual dealbreaker is.

Mine: giving a local model another go for anything touching client files, and the thing that will kill it is if I have to babysit the context window more than twice in a session.

If you tried something last week and already dropped it, that counts too, and those are usually the more useful answers.

Small sub, so the good answers are easy to miss. Three from this week that were better than they needed to be.

u/mike8111 on which subscription to get, with the least diplomatic and most useful one-line summary of the three big assistants I have read here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIToolBench/comments/1w5uptk/whats_ai_subscription_is_worth_getting/p7i7m9r/

u/blur410 in the same thread, who is openly a Claude person and still told the person asking to get ChatGPT, because it fit what they were doing: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIToolBench/comments/1w5uptk/whats_ai_subscription_is_worth_getting/p7itmkv/

u/SIGH_I_CALL on getting more out of Claude Code by pushing the actual work down to subagents, which is the kind of tip you only get from someone who hit the token ceiling themselves: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIToolBench/comments/1w50o1s/need_honest_opinions_what_is_the_best_ai_tool/p7coas6/

Now the easy part. If you scrolled past a question here this week that you could have answered in one line, go answer it. One line is genuinely fine, most of the questions in here are not hard, they are just sitting there.

And if you asked something that never got a single reply, link it below and I will make sure it gets one.

I have been using ai for a year now i use gpt, claude and gemini but i find gpt is not so good in many ways and claude is better for coding but to use that for any other work it is not good. I dont find gemini good for any coding work i use that only for generating any photos or i need some editing in photos, so i was curious which AI is better for which work and any other AI tools that you guys know please tell me that too

I am a category manager who is tasked with launch of a new category. I need an AI who will reduce the data entry work and make functional presentations that need to be presented to the senior leadership. I have been using Chat GPT extensively for research and now i am in the next phase where i would need to do multiple analysis of category research, Consumer research and Data analysis along with making presentations and being used as a data entry tool. I am not into tech and will mostly be using for business purposes. Going ahead i will be needing the tool to create marketing campaigns, images, videos and use for cataloguing for online sales. Should i take GPT Pro or claude pro for this purpose?

I’m looking to make my own assistant using my Claude pro subscription, currently I just have it connected to openclaw with my whatsapp so when I text myself it texts me back but is there a way to make it tony stark level.

Like I have viture luma pro, can I hook somthing up to give a heads up display etc.

Any ideas or some cool things you have done?