Comment by cryptoegorophy
2 years ago
As a non programmer it is annoying when gpt4 assumes I know how to write code or what to insert where. I code in gpt3.5 and then ask questions in gpt4 about that code and paste answers back to 3.5 to write full code. No matter how I pleased gpt4 to write full complete Wordpress plugin in refused. Gpt3.5 on another hand is awesome
This sounds more tedious than just learning to code on your own would be.
It’s been a long year helping non-programmers figure out why their GPT output doesn’t work, when it would have been simpler for all involved to just ask me to write what they need in the first place.
Not to mention the insult of asking a robot to do my job and then asking me to clean up the robots’ sloppy job.
This should not be perceived as an insult, many people underestimate the technical knowledge and mastery required to be decent at coding.
I just realized how much better is 3.5 in some cases. I asked ChatGPT to improve a script using a fairly obscure API by adding a few features and it got it on the first try.
Then ... I realized I had picked 3.5 by mistake, so I went back and copied and pasted the same prompt into GPT4 and it failed horribly, hallucinating functions that don't exist in that API.
I did a few other tests and yes, GPT 3.5 tends to be better at coding (less mistakes / hallucinations). Actually, all the 3.5 code was flawless, whereas all the 4 had major problems, as if it was reasoning incorrectly.
GPT4 was incredibly better when it first came out, and I was gaslighted by many articles / blog posts that claim that the degraded performance is in our imagination.
Fortunately, 3.5 still has a bit of that magic.