Ask HN: What paid AI tools are worth it for creative tech projects?

  • Posted 18 hours ago by frausty
  • 2 points
Long story short, I'm a third year college student who just switched my major from biophysics(premed) to Human Technology Interaction.

You can spare the advice about spending all my time learning to code, I know it's important. But for creative technologist internships, including the one I have this summer, portfolio projects matter just as much, if not more, than raw coding ability and the major change is putting me far behind on the latter.

My question is: which AI subscriptions are actually worth paying for if you're vibecoding projects like these?

Right now I have the $100/month Sakana Fugu subscription (which I heavily regret because it gets burned in about three prompts), Claude Pro ($20/month), and Cursor Pro through the student plan. From what I can tell, Fable seems to be the leader for design, but I don't know if there are better options like Sol, Grok, or Kimi.

Also, I work hard to try to make sure my end result isn't just AI slop. Right now I'm building my portfolio website and an interactive heart anatomy project.

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