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CLOSEDHOSTEDWRITING HELPCODING HELPEVERYDAY TASKSTEXT GENERATION
RANKED #5 OF 267 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #7 OF 6,544 · VIBE SCORE 7.5 · 3,635 VOICES
A versatile text assistant made for everyday writing, wording tasks, and coding support.
HAPPY10.0
1 mentions
SAD-
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VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 3,331 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
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Step 2 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS6.8
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WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users find Step 2 worth the money for coding help and writing, but note that it sometimes invents facts, lectures too often, or suffers from outages and limits.
1213 POSTS · 2422 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · DEV FORUMS · GITHUB · X · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · DEV.TO
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (6 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (4 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (5 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (4 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (4 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
6 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
4 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2025-05-05 · 554 UPVOTESThis prompt can teach you almost everything.
This prompt can teach you almost everything.
- REDDIT · 2026-03-14 · 502 UPVOTESI built a Claude skill that writes perfect prompts and hit #1 twice on r/PromptEngineering. Here is the setup for the people who need a…
I built a Claude skill that writes perfect prompts and hit #1 twice on r/PromptEngineering. Here is the setup for the people who need a setup guide.
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How to use IP-adapter controlnets for consistent faces
- REDDIT · 2026-08-16 · 371 UPVOTESThe dream is to reach 200GB VRAM
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- REDDIT · 2025-04-14 · 340 UPVOTESVibe Coding Isn’t Dumb - You're Just Doing It Wrong
Vibe Coding Isn’t Dumb - You're Just Doing It Wrong
- REDDIT · 2024-05-28 · 297 UPVOTESSD.Next New Release
SD.Next New Release
- REDDIT · 2023-11-27 · 287 UPVOTESDid I accidentally automate myself out of the job?
Did I accidentally automate myself out of the job?
- REDDIT · 2026-08-08 · 270 UPVOTESMiniMax H3 Spectrum v0.2.1: new offline replay method fixes the audio-quality loss from accelerated runs
MiniMax H3 Spectrum v0.2.1: new offline replay method fixes the audio-quality loss from accelerated runs
- REDDIT · 2022-07-28 · 209 UPVOTESIt took me 1 day to create a program, using GPT-3, to create a highly convincing small army of bots to post on Reddit: Here's how I did it
It took me 1 day to create a program, using GPT-3, to create a highly convincing small army of bots to post on Reddit: Here's how I did it