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These are the issues I am experiencing:

- Multiple different paths that actually point to the same location

- Files visible in an application explorer (e.g. Excel), but NOT windows explorer

- Stuff randomly stored only in the cloud, and not local + cloud

- System folders (e.g. Documents) that point to DIFFERENT locations

In short, I have no idea where anything is.

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Just frustrated here: I credited my OpenAI API account with credits, and then it turns out I have to go through some verification process to actually use the API, which involves disclosing personal data to some third-party vendor, which I am not prepared to do. So I asked for a refund and am told that that refunds are against their policy.

So I'll be cancelling my chatgpt plus sub, disputing the card payment, and moving to deepseek.

Edit: Deepseek seems to be a lot cheaper than OpenAI

Edit 2: seems verification is only needed for gpt-5, gpt-4o seems to work without it

Hi HN - so my current dev workflow using AI assistance is basically: Give a spec to chatgpt, copy generated code into my IDE, run code, inspect output, then iterate by asking chatgpt for additions, changes etc, re-pasting into my IDE. The problem with this is that I often want to make my own changes to code directly in the IDE, and as such what's in my IDE gets out of sync with what's in chatgpt. Am sure this is a solved problem, so I was wondering what people's preferred approaches were for integrating LLMs into their dev workflow?