Like it invented an entire package to do TOFU in racket for me

Are you using version 3.5 or 4?

It's learning from humans, that's to be expected

It is sadly ¯_(ツ)_/¯

yeah the response quality is so much worse and it has that weird "take my answer and shut up" attitude now.

I remember about 10 months ago or so ChatGPT used to output some surprisingly top-tier code. I'd ask it to create a method with some required functionality and it would output the code, fully commented and everything. I didn't have to edit the code, it just worked, and it was more or less efficient.

Now? I can't even get it to write comments for code I give to it.

The free version or the paid version? Part of it is that they're trying to push people towards the paid version, which is a much more sophisticated model.

I think co-pilot works better because it has the context of the whole project for reference when suggesting auto completion. I've gotten a lot of unusable junk from it too though

Co-pilot isn't using the same model. They're using a model that's been trained on a LOT of open-source code.

Maybe same model but differnt data

I go the other way with it. Give me something broken but close and I'll use the documentation to fix it.

In my experience, what makes gpt-4 great for coding is its astonishing knowledge of available software libraries, built-in interface features, etc.

I'll tell it the task I want done, and it will tell me where to find, and how to install the necessary dependencies.

With zero experience in browser extension design, gpt-4 helped me to build an incredibly complicated Chrome extension, using vector database; creating a custom, cloud-based server; web scraping with headless browsers, voice recognition, speech synthesis, wake-word capabilities, and a sophisticated user interface. I had ZERO experience with ANY of these.

For me, using gpt-4 was like collaborating with a just okay programmer, but one who had extensive experience with literally every programming language, API, protocol, etc.

And it was a collaboration. We would talk through problems together. I would make observations and guesses about why a block of code wasn't working, and it would tell me why I was wrong, or alternately tell me I was right, and produce a fixed version.

Or AWS documentation. Trying to use it feels like getting tortured with thumbscrews.

I hate it so much. It's a cyclical maze of ignorance and frustration.

Google, on the other hand, may have my hand in marriage.