This stood out to me in the report:

      A corporate lawyer at a mid-sized firm exemplified this dynamic. Her organization invested $50,000 in a specialized contract analysis tool, yet she consistently defaulted to ChatGPT for drafting work: "Our purchased AI tool provided rigid summaries with limited customization options. With ChatGPT, I can guide the conversation and iterate until I get exactly what I need. The fundamental quality difference is noticeable, ChatGPT consistently produces better outputs, even though our vendor claims to use the same underlying technology." This pattern suggests that a $20-per-month general-purpose tool often outperforms bespoke enterprise systems costing orders of magnitude more, at least in terms of immediate usability and user satisfaction. This paradox exemplifies why most organizations remain on the wrong side of the GenAI Divide.

▲ kami23 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's a similar story for me at $DAYJOB. We have copilot for our IDEs and it is so much worse than Claude code or any other CLI integration option. We're so restricted on adopting the features as fast as they are turned on. I try to use it during the day and end up frustrated that the agent mode is restricted and returns "I can't complete that for you" or something similar when asking for pretty reasonable actions.

I've been cranking out personal apps with Claude Code in contrast and my brain is exploding with ideas for day job, but this is such an organic space that the speed that corporations move at they are using the cool tool from last year has left me demoing personal work to coworkers and hoping that starts to move the needle on getting better tooling. I understand the governance and privacy concerns for $DAYJOB, and as such every tool needs to get approved by a slow human process.

We also have OpenAI access and I have found myself using that for research more so than copilot as well, maybe we just picked the worst tool because of that MS vertical integration...

	▲	jamwil 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		All I have is copilot as well, but with that I can configure Aider to use the copilot openai endpoint, and through that access most of the good models with a capable CLI tool. It’s a pair-programming experience more than an agentic one but I need to stay close to the code anyway.

▲ johnnyanmac 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>This pattern suggests that a $20-per-month general-purpose tool often outperforms bespoke enterprise systems costing orders of magnitude more

$20/month? Is "mid-sized" different than I imagined, or was this 3-4 years ago? We're already seeing model subscriptions balloon.

I wouldn't be surprised if these approach typical enterprise prices in a few more years.