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PaperclipPerfector  5mo ago (text post)   3793 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 14, 2024

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I use ChatGPT and phind.com for programming. It's great for generating ideas and I sometimes use it for writing some boilerplate code, but there are substantial bugs in perhaps 1 in 3 of the code snippets I ask it to write. Overall, it saves time, but you need to have a pretty good understanding of what a solution should look like, or you'll be led astray. Note, I'm using the free tier of both tools. Maybe it gets better if you pay for a subscription?

ChatGPT now serves GPT-4O for all users, paid or free, and while the paid tier has access to additional goodies, I'm pretty sure you're not missing out on anything substantial, including for programming purposes, by using the free tier. It's not like the old days, when there was a massive delta in usefulness between GPT 3.5 and 4, with the latter being doled out to paying users.

Thanks for clarifying. My eyes just glaze over on the prompts to upgrade, so I really have no idea what the differences between the free and paid tiers are.

Mainly access to image generation with DALLE, more conversations every 3 hours without being thrown back to GPT-3.5, and access to custom GPTs, which aren't really that useful to be honest.

You're not missing out on much, and it's a sign that OAI is sweating a little that they're handing out free access to their best public models at all, even before the Apple integration.

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