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Comment by leonheld | Hacker News Reader

It's a bit surprising seeing all the positive replies to this thread. In my experience (using GPT-3), the time I spend debugging the code generated by the AI is almost the same as if I was to write it correctly in one go.

The comprehension aspect kinda helps me sometimes, like when I need to understand some obscure shell script.

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We need a catchy name for this, like [Someone]'s Law. It would read: "Whenever someone complains about chatbots/ChatGPT being overrated, they are basing their experience on non-GPT-4 interactions." It comes up over, and over, and over, on this forum and all the others I read. People need to know GPT-4 and pre-GPT-4 are not the same!

"Works On My Model"

Positive replies are most definitely using GPT-4

I paid for it and use gpt4.

I didn't see a Json format error and chatgpt just told me exactly what the issue was.

It also helps me rubber duck debugging Things

Everyone I know who uses ChatGPT to enhance productivity are on the paid version. GPT4 + Plugins really are a significant improvement in capability.

What plugins? I use GPT4 but never used any plugins.

Yes. I was unimpressed by GPT 3 as well. 4, on the other hand, is VERY useful.

Use GPT-4.

I use GPT-4 and still have problems getting it to write simple code correctly sometimes. I find it immensely useful in many areas but writing actual detailed code doesn't seem to be a game changing use case for me (yet).

Tip: it’s often faster to keep iterating on the problem with the LLM than to stop after the first response. “As an expert TypeScript programmer, you should know that X isn’t correct. Please try again.”

Sweet, now it is stuck in a loop where it says sorry, here’s a correction then spits out the same code. Do you have an example chat where that worked for you?

An example that didn't work that I thought should was to implement a Base62 converter. I thought it would easily be able to do it as the problem is so well scoped (an probably even exists in its training set). However, it either had poor performance characteristics or wasn't correct.

This is how an experienced dev would like to work - break the problem down and hand off some of the more well scoped problems to AI.

Use GPT4

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