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Comment by GiorgioG | Hacker News Reader

Can all the hype around AI and ChatGPT die right now? ChatGPT 4 is a brilliant forgetful moron. Trying to have a conversation where it spits out code is an exercise in frustration. As you interact and tell it to change/fix things, it forgets a bunch of stuff. Then it starts only spitting out fragments, then you ask it to spit out the entirety of the code it's generated and it creates an extended fragment, but still not the whole damn thing. And I'm paying for this abuse!

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That's because OpenAI keeps punching holes in the brain of ChatGPT to eliminate anything that might be controversial.

Because things like GPT have a limited contextual memory. When you exceed that token limit it starts forgetting things, which becomes problematic on long pieces of code.

Just copying the latest code every once in a while (as long as it isn't too long) and putting it in a new window commonly works around issues like that.

I dunno. I think ChatGPT has sort of made me a better communicator of requirements when talking to real people. It forces me to communicate in small, clear digestible chunks -- and that has helped me in my comms in general.

Exactly, if used correctly GPTs are "working".

People complaining that this models doesn't live up to their expectations of what an "AI" should be is just funny.

Sorry, but I'm a seasoned developer, I can be succinct and ChatGPT will still get it wrong more often than it gets it right. Trying to get it to fix what it's done shouldn't result in things just falling out, or have it just not listen to your explicit instructions "Change X to Y and then regenerate all the code". We're not talking about thousands of lines of code here, it will generate most of the listing and then leave sections out with a comment. If it can't do what I ask, then just be up front about it.

"This talking dog is a total dumbass. I don't get the hype. You could drive a truck through the security holes in this C code it wrote."

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