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It is so interesting to me seeing how everyone utilizes those large language models. I often wonder how they do it. I tried to get something usable out of ChatGPT now and then, but the code is littered with misunderstandings of the data format and errors and more problems. Maybe I am bad at explaining what I want to the system?

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It can make mistakes and hallucinate. I've found GPT-4 to be slightly better than earlier versions.

Ideally tell it one step at a time you need done, I've found that it struggles with multiple overlapping steps for some things but not others. It can make tic-tac-toe in one prompt in HTML5 and Javascript. But maybe if you ask it to make it rain in the background or something like that in the same prompt it might mess everything up.

I've also found it's good at common problems and sometimes spotting the cause for syntax errors, but less common problems it might not know.

Hope that helps.

Thank you for the advice. I would like to make use of those tools properly, so I'll give it a try.

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