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websitescenes | 1 year ago

ChatGPT gives me garbage code unless I ask it politely not to. No joke. Usually the first attempt is pure garbage and I have to call it out as such and then it’s like, “you’re right! Here’s the updated code”. No idea why it can basically never get it right the first time. I also find that it can be quite redundant and offer two distinct solutions morphed into one mutant answer which will turn the undiscerning 1x developer into a -10x developer. But hey, it still saves me time. Sometimes..

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ijustlovemath|1 year ago

Are you using 4? I've had great luck with 4-Turbo and Opus

bryanrasmussen|1 year ago

maybe ChatGPT crawls stackoverflow, stackoverflow #1 answer old or just garbage, second answer better but not the upvoted,

ChatGPT gives you #1 basically (with some small tweaks but still it is garbage)

you tell it that's garbage

it sees in comments "why is this upvoted answer, answer two is clearly better"

it returns answer two with a few tweaks.