Ask HN: Almost unusable code generated by ChatGPT recently

This is never reflected in the benchmarks and everyone uses them as imperial universal truths. ChatGPT once reached a certain quality but is scaling down on first requests to save compute power.

There have been several recent HN posts to the same effect. Here's a recent one I participated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38602025

It's not limited to ChatGPT either and seems more pervasive. Not sure what's happening

Looks like it! Even code quality has dropped 'significantly.' I used it once in a while to clean up the code after writing a POC. It used to do decent work before, but now I almost always can't use the code generated at first shot.

Data point: it works well here (on a Plus subscription using GPT-4) with Python and JavaScript and Go.

I do use highly-tailored starting prompts saved in a GPTs.

It's definitely gotten a lot slower.

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