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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

It's been a tremendous help to me as I relearn how to code on some personal projects. I have written 5 little apps that are very useful to me for my hobbies.

It's also been helpful at work with some random database type stuff.

But it definitely gets stuff wrong. A lot of stuff.

The funny thing is, if you point out its mistakes, it often does better on subsequent attempts. It's more like an iterative process of refinement than one prompt gives you the final answer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is because all LLMs function primarily based on the token context you feed it.

The best way to use any LLM is to completely fill up it's history with relevant context, then ask your question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I worked on a creative writing thing with it and the more I added, the better its responses. And 4 is a noticeable improvement over 3.5.

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