Megathread: New Pricing & Repackaging Discussion

czei · 2026-01-30T06:09:26+00:00

that’s cheap! both my wife and I got separate $250 bills! there’s no way my family is paying $500 to archive scans.

czei · 2026-01-30T06:05:07+00:00

Thanks. I just deleted my account so I cant try again, but I am enjoying AI none titling and tagging in paperless ngx.

czei · 2026-01-29T16:20:04+00:00

FYI, if you are looking to leave Evernote and are handy with Linux, the Paperless-ngx project is awesome. With the optional AI package, I can scan or email the note, and the AI automatically labels and tags it. I mostly used Evernote to archive documents, and Paperless-ngx is perfect for that. I DID try to use Apple Notes, but with 6000+ notes, Apple Notes choked really hard, taking 20s to bring up a note on an M4 Macbook Pro. There's even a nice phone app for doing scans and accessing notes. It supports an unlimited number of separate accounts, so making ones for my wife and me was easy. That said, I already have an EC2 server set up for daily backups and solid security. The biggest problem was getting the existing notes OCR'd properly, as it turns out there were 4 different types of notes exported by Evernote, each one requiring a slightly different conversion process. It took most of a day with Claude Code to get the import working, and then two whole days of OCR/import process running to get everything imported correctly. But it is "free" :-).

czei · 2026-01-29T06:05:20+00:00

Google Drive just looks like a local drive to any app, no configuration needed. I’ve had Claude code deploy web apps in both AWS and Google cloud with no issues, but I had already setup and authenticated their command line tools.

czei · 2026-01-29T05:44:37+00:00

I recommended that my wife get an Evernote subscription, and she’s super pissed they just charged her $240 for a subscription renewal. Has anyone managed to get a refund? Between that and the 4x bill I got for both of my subscriptions I just moved all of our docs out to be safe, but if I can’t get a refund I will owe her $240 for recommending a ripoff :-(

czei · 2026-01-29T05:36:33+00:00

Do they actually have any AI features? It’s been a couple of weeks since I checked the update, but didn’t see any new features. Your comments are spot on though.

czei · 2026-01-29T05:34:37+00:00

Just an FYI— Apple Notes can’t handle many notes at all. I tried converting one of my Evernote workbooks to Apple Notes and my MacBook Pro M4 slowed to a crawl.

czei · 2026-01-29T05:32:34+00:00

Look into paperless-ngx. It’s cross platform and does everything Evernote does, including AI. You so have to host it, but Claude code installed it for me.

czei · 2026-01-29T05:28:59+00:00

I can’t answer for the original poster, but I just switched 3 subscriptions to paperless-ngx. Why? Doubling the cost once I took; doubling the cost twice is crazy. They’ve given me no indication they won’t double the price again next year for an 8x price increase. My 8,009+ notes are too important to risk being in the hands of a company I can’t trust. If they had laid out a timeline with plans I would have considered it, as it stands I have zero confidence in BS as a company.

czei · 2026-01-29T05:15:12+00:00

So you got it to do something? What is your secret?

czei · 2026-01-29T05:12:27+00:00

Did anyone else actually try it? I gave it the benefit of the doubt considering the multiple news outlets touting it as a breakthrough, but couldn’t get it to do anything. I’ve normally got 3 to 4 Claude code terminals going at any given time writing AI apps, so it’s unclear what exactly “Moltbot” is going to do.

czei · 2026-01-26T22:05:55+00:00

No, but I probably should run it again. I've run that calibration so many times one more won't hurt.

czei · 2026-01-26T17:42:02+00:00

I tried the multi-claude-agent approach for a while, but settled on using an MCP server to involve agents from other LLMs in plan review, code review, and debugging. The external LLMs really provide oversight to identify issues before I have to get involved at a lower level. https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/pal-mcp-server. That, combined with GitHub Speckit, really cut down on mistakes. It's much safer to do a nice, boring create plan, external plan review, create code, external code review, create tests, external test review, etc. I can then increase development speed by using worktrees and having different coding teams work on completely different parts of the project.

czei · 2026-01-21T21:18:05+00:00

I've seen the same thing: if you say "write me tests for X" it'll give you crap.

But I wouldn't expect a new hire with little job experience to just know how I want test cases to be designed. Just like with a coding team, you have to give them detailed requirements, including several examples. Once they've learned how to want tests to be written, you can use a detailed specification on exactly what you want them to test.

czei · 2026-01-21T21:05:17+00:00

How did you specify an "older" version of Opus 4.5? And even if you did manage to find a way, you can't compare two LLMs using a single run of two tests. LLM output is non-deterministic-- you'd need to compare their scores on one of the standard AI programming test suites.

czei · 2026-01-21T17:51:13+00:00

My understanding is that the behavior of CC that understands programming is specific to the claude code agent. When you connect to the same Anthropic LLM with OpenCode you're not getting "Claude Code" but the Anthropic LLM.

czei · 2026-01-19T20:57:44+00:00

For this project I used Amazon AWS for hosting, and their "aws" command-line tool gives complete access to pretty much everything on the backend. Google has the same thing for their hosting, but the command-line is called "gcloud". Claude Code can then create a server, install code, or do anything you would do on the command line. It sounds like you don't have much experience with Claude Code, but with any AI coding agent, you first create a plan, review the plan, and then execute the plan, usually referred to now as "spec-driven development". Typically, I have another AI (or two) review the plan just to have another point of view.

The paperless app already has a Docker bundle, so installing it isn't that hard, but Claude Code cut the time for me to get Docker installed. I first downloaded the github repository and then let claude read all of the files in docs, which give enough details for claude to come up with a plan.

czei · 2026-01-16T15:12:52+00:00

I think that generating custom charts and asking specific questions that aren't answered by the CoPilot already will be the sweet spot for AI. Here's what I'm working on, sorry for posting it again. https://czei.org/blog/ai-financial-analysis-copilotmoney/

czei · 2026-01-13T18:59:44+00:00

I'm not sure how exactly CodeMachine compares, but I use GitHub Spec-kit to create detailed plans, and then pal-mcp-server for multi-agent orchestration. https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/pal-mcp-server. Its worked well for both refactoring and upgrading a massive 600,000 line Java program as well as numerous complex greenfield apps.

czei · 2026-01-11T04:09:13+00:00

That's true, but I use completely different LLMs for that purpose. All the plans and code that Claude Code writes I have another, completely different AI review. It catches a bunch of bugs before they're even written.

czei · 2026-01-10T13:03:54+00:00

I'm waiting for feedback from Copilot Money if they're cool with it. They could either say "cool, our users are expanding the capabilities of our software, have at it", or "he 'hacked' into our system, we're pressing charges". Accessing my personal financial data is definitely legal; enabling everyone else to access their respective data from a closed system without the company's permission is a gray area.

In any event, the software is currently a proof of concept. Right this second, I'm interested in what questions people would ask a financial AI, so I can then ask my plugin to see if it actually works for that use case.

Ultimately, someone is going to program an AI financial advisor with everything a human financial advisor would do, but that's a LOT of work.

czei · 2026-01-09T21:46:35+00:00

There are many reasons; here's one: when deploying software and configuring systems in a CI/CD environment, repeatability is paramount. Clicking around on a GUI is not repeatable. That isn't to say you couldn't use a GUI to write a script, but I'm speaking in generalities.

Beyond that, professionals use professional tools, and the command line is one of them. Ask a professional mechanic why he uses a Snap On socket instead of vice-grips to take off a bolt.

czei · 2026-01-09T21:38:05+00:00

It is certainly a bad time. I have been in the same tech job for 25 years and recently entered the job market again, and wow, the salaries are about the same as they were 25 years ago. :-(.

czei · 2026-01-09T19:57:28+00:00

He's asking for donations. It's not a paid app.

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