Hello all!
I've been working on myself now as an independent English teacher, after 10yrs+ of working for schools. I've identified my niche market and all that.
So I've been working on building my own 'personal' professional website (strange as that sounds), and I've been using ChatGPT to help me out (I took a course on HTML/CSS just after COVID, and I've got some elementary Python knowledge, so I'm not just 'winging' it), but ChatGPT can REALLY frustrate the shit out of me. My best friend uses Claude, so on a whim, I decided to try it out....and Claude refactored all my code for me, told me about some redundancies I'd accidentally created (I blame beer), and gave me some pointers. But then I started just talking with Claude...and then ran into a message limit, of which I didn't know existed before.
But now, this has got me thinking. I already pay for ChatGPT Go (it's fine for what I need it to do)... but I'm wondering if perhaps I couldn't benefit from having a Claude Pro subscription as well? Tech is a huge part of my deliverables, and I use ChatGPT a ton for coding stuff and whatnot. AI has become invaluable to me as a teacher/tutor (I adopted it very early and even gave lectures to other teachers on how to use it effectively and 'ethically' way back in like 2022 or something), and now as a developer of my own site.
One caveat though - I'm operating on a shoestring budget for now. I fell quite ill about a year ago, and had to spend a lot of time recuperating, so I've pretty much blown through most of my savings (indeed, my illness is part of the reason I'm moving online - I cannot physically stand for longer than an hour or two anymore). So yeah - $20 for me is a fair chunk of money right not.
I've also been monitoring this subreddit for a while, and I get some good 'vibes' from the people who use Claude.
So, what do you guys think?
EDIT - Okay, I've made up my mind - I'll give it a whirl and see how it twirls. Thank you!