Re:Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
by CuriouslyC on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:54AM
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If you can't get GPT4 to do coding questions you're prompting it wrong or not loading your context correctly. It struggles a bit with presentational stuff like getting correct HTML/CSS from prompts or trying to generate/update large functions/classes, but it is stellar at producing short functions, creating scaffolding (tests/stories) and boilerplate and it can do some refactors that are outside the capabilities of analytical tools, such as converting from inline styles to tailwind, for example.
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Re:Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
by Keyframe on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:07AM
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so, mundane trivial things and/like web programming? I got it eventually to answer what I needed but it always liked to skip part of the code, inserting // TODO: important stuff in the middle, hence 'laziness' attribute. Maybe it is just lazy, who knows. I know I am since I'm prompting it for stuff.
Re:Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
by CuriouslyC on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:43AM
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I wouldn't say mundane/trivial as much as well trodden. I get good code for basic shaders, various compsci algorithms, common straightforward sql queries, etc. If you're asking for it to edit 500 line functions and handle memory management in a language that isn't in the top20 of the TIOBE index you're going to have a bad time.
The todo comments can be prompted against, just tell it to always include complete runnable code as its output will executed in a sandbox without prior verification.