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>>mfigui+M3
Frankly, OpenAI seems to be losing its luster, and fast.

Plugins were a failure. GPTs are a little better, but I still don't see the product market fit. GPT-4 is still king, but not by that much any more. It's not even clear that they're doing great research, because they don't publish.

GPT-5 has to be incredibly good at this point, and I'm not sure that it will be.

>>skepti+(OP)
> GPT-4 is still king, but not by that much any more

Idk, I just tried Gemini Ultra and it's so much worse than GPT4 that I am actually quite shocked. Trying to ask it any kind of coding question ends up being this frustrating and honestly bizarre waste of time as it hallucinates a whole new language syntax every time and then asks if you want to continue with non-working, in fact non-existing, option A or the equally non-existent option B until you realise that you've spent an hour trying to make it at least output something that is even in the requested language and finally that it is completely useless.

I'm actually pretty astonished at how far Google is behind and that they released such a bunch of worthless junk at all. And have the chutzpah to ask people to pay for it!

Of course I'm looking forward to gpt-5 but even if it's only a minor step up, they're still way ahead.

>>sho+Wi
I kind of gave up completely on coding questions. Whether it's GPT4, Anthropic, or Gemini - there's always this big issue of laziness I'm facing. Never do I get a full code, there are always stubs or TODOs (on important stuff) and when asked to correct for that.. I just get more of it (laziness). Has anyone else faced this and is there a solution? It's almost as annoying, if not more, as was incomplete output in the early days.

>>Keyfra+mX
If you can't get GPT4 to do coding questions you're prompting it wrong or not loading your context correctly. It struggles a bit with presentational stuff like getting correct HTML/CSS from prompts or trying to generate/update large functions/classes, but it is stellar at producing short functions, creating scaffolding (tests/stories) and boilerplate and it can do some refactors that are outside the capabilities of analytical tools, such as converting from inline styles to tailwind, for example.

>>Curiou+re1
so, mundane trivial things and/like web programming? I got it eventually to answer what I needed but it always liked to skip part of the code, inserting // TODO: important stuff in the middle, hence 'laziness' attribute. Maybe it is just lazy, who knows. I know I am since I'm prompting it for stuff.

>>Keyfra+bw1
I wouldn't say mundane/trivial as much as well trodden. I get good code for basic shaders, various compsci algorithms, common straightforward sql queries, etc. If you're asking for it to edit 500 line functions and handle memory management in a language that isn't in the top20 of the TIOBE index you're going to have a bad time.

The todo comments can be prompted against, just tell it to always include complete runnable code as its output will executed in a sandbox without prior verification.