Wrong, gpt4 is very capable of writing “new” and complex code.
Also gpt4 >> gpt3.5 for coding.
Also gpt4 >> gpt3.5 for coding.
Leftwise bitshift would make gpt4 worse though :P
This is not my subjective experience. It's better, sometimes somewhat, but also much slower. I'm not sure which one is the better tradeoff for real work. I have it on 4 by default now, don't want to think about this for every question I ask, but for my work, 3.5 was fine.
I tried to make GPT-4 create an algorithm for an enhanced tic-tac-toe game (think Wordle vs Quordle to somewhat visualize the difference) and it's failing miserably.
Also it’s not that it writes perfect code straight away and you never have to re-prompt or change anything manually. But it’s still an insane speed-up.
You'll likely refute that as your mind is already made up, but there you go, another conflicting and confusing data point.
I'm sure ChatGPT4 would likely agree :)