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Wellness Wednesday for July 12, 2023

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Actual GPT-4 API/Bing are much better, if they're making subtle errors in the code, then it's still running, and the problems are far beyond my capacity to deduce.

Does anyone have a sort-of ranking overall for the different bots, specifically for coding purposes? Are any of the free options even worth bothering with? I've been avoiding really jumping in lately, mostly because my primary coding language for work lately has been the very high-level language called GradStudent, so I haven't really needed to. But I have a personal project coming up, and I'm kind of wanting to do it in a language that I'm only somewhat familiar with... and it involves an API that I've never used before... so I figured it would be the perfect opportunity to dive in to AI-assisted coding.

Gpt4 >>>> everything else

Its 20 dollars a month. I'd suggest cheaper alternatives, but 20 dollars a month for game changing tech is cheap enough already.

If youre in 2 minds.....The gpt4 api is around 1$ per 50 interactions. (Im making some hand wavy assumptions aboht your usecase). Put 20$ on it and see how quickly you run out. If it runs out in less than a month, go get the subscription.

Chatgpt does a fine job with SQL

I'm hardly an expert, but I do have my own experiences and I know what more experienced people have been saying.

Pretty bad, borderline useful: Bard, free

Worth using: GPT 3.5 via ChatGPT. It's free

Potentially slightly better, but harder to get access to: Claude 1.3 (almost as good as 3.5) and the newest Claude

Good: GPT-4 API, ChatGPT 4, Bing Chat Creative Mode. The latter is free, I happen to have ways to get my hands on the model via the API.

No personal experience: Llama, Alpaca and their derivatives. There are coding focused derivatives and finetunes, but they're still not on par with even ChatGPT 3.5. (well, not no experience, but never for the purposes of programming)

You can try ChatGPT 3.5 or Claude, but be careful to double check anything crucial it tells you, and you can have far more confidence in the "Good" tier.

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