I'm on a paid account but not the 20$ / month one. I've paid < 1$ worth of tokens so far and I definitely get some value out of it. So, it's very cheap to use.

I'm on a paid account but not the 20$ / month one. I've paid < 1$ worth of tokens so far and I definitely get some value out of it. So, it's very cheap to use. Getting a paid account allows you to create an API key and use it with things like codegpt in vs code and intellij and other places. There's a gpt for docs and slides as well. And you can of course build your own tooling. And you can configure all of these to use gpt-4. So, definitely worth it to me. Codegpt is pretty nice. You can get it to review code, suggest improvements/optimizations, spot potential bugs, etc. And it can write code, generate tests for existing code, etc. The hardest part of using gpt is 1) remembering to use it, and 2) coming up with good questions to ask of it. The better your questions, the more useful it gets. I've caught myself using Google a couple of times to figure stuff out before realizing "I could just ask chat gpt ....". Mostly, that works spectacularly well. You can save yourself a lot of time this way. I've done some fun stuff with it: - I needed German translations for a mozilla fluent localization file. It understands the format and generated hundreds of translations for me in a few minutes. And so far, I've not found anything that is wrong. - I needed a bit of kotlin code to encrypt plain text using AES. It generated working code for me. I asked it about improvements and it suggested using an IV and then added the code for that. I asked it to generate a test, and it did. And it passed. Having done similar code in the past in Java, all this looks perfectly legit to me. - It's aware of geospatial relations (cities, countries, major landmarks) and you can ask it questions about that. And get it to answer in in geojson format. Or calculate surface areas. I'm not sure, I'm ready to trust all of it but at face value it seems to be doing reasonable things. - I've worked on spicing up our sales pitch a bit. One of our customers started talking about kpis, so I selected some text from our white paper and asked chat gpt to suggest some kpis based on that and how that would benefit our customers context. Then for giggles I asked for fifty of them ... and it did. All of them were reasonable. A quarter of them were really good. - We had a customer in the air carrier sector and we needed to understand their business challenges in a hurry. So we asked chat gpt to list key challenges and then grilled it a bit on things like cost breakdowns, and details about fuel cost, and other factors. Most of this stuff comes from public reports but basically we were asking it the same questions we would have asked our customer .. and getting really informative answers. - I went to Rotterdam over easter, which is a city I had not visited properly. So, I asked it for some suggestions for stuff to do. And got lots of usable suggestions. So, you can code with it, explore complicated topics with it, use it to sharpen pitches, outsource translation work to it, and ask it for directions, and get it to play tourist guide. My bill for March was 0.90$. Amazing value. Absolute no brainer.