Re:YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in ...
by rockemsockem on Sunday April 07, 2024 @02:25AM
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When you say technical questions do you mean writing code, explaining code, or something else? If it's writing code I agree, I don't often ask it to explain code unless I want to know about some obscure syntax, but it works pretty well for that. I would not trust it to explain complex logic in a function.
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Re:YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in ...
by packetlost on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:45PM
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I've tried all of the above. I've asked it to summarize information about what languages in a class had strong symmetric multiprocessing characteristics and it made up over half of the details. I've asked it to generate code for a simple linked list and it created garbage. I've asked it to summarize what code does and it gets it blatantly wrong.
These are just a few examples. I've found it to be nearly useless for anything where a semblance of correctness matters. Every single thing it says must be validated against external sources and it can easily lead you down rabbit holes.
GPT-4 was a little better than 3(.5), but I've yet to see it be good at anything enough to warrant the price tag or the time.