Wow, has that been a brutal experience!

Wow, has that been a brutal experience! Perhaps I haven't found the right tools yet, so if you have a recommendation, please do share :)

I've tried MetaGPT, having Cursor build it for me, or even just ChatGPT o1 Pro -- none have been able to build anything usable for me. And yes, I'm paying $200/month for ChatGPT Pro. It's been the best AI product I've found thus far, and it's worth the cost of getting access to the latest releases. Deep Research has been fun to try, but it can't really write code!

O1 Pro mode has been the most useful in building my portfolio website, but even then, I've had to simplify my goals for it to make any progress drastically. So far, the most success I have is using ChatGPT 4o, or o3-mini-high to answer questions I have as I go. AI has definitely been a productivity boost for that use case, but it's helping me; I wouldn't even say I'm helping it yet.

Social media seems to think that AI can already build end-to-end applications, and while I'm bullish on AI, there's just so much hype right now that it's hard to trust most of the headlines. We will continue seeing amazing new products land over the weeks and months to come, but sometimes, I wish the hype cycle died down so we could all be more realistic.

Am I missing something here? Have you been able to use an AI tool or agent to build an end-to-end project?

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