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It's not that I think model version doesn't matter. I switch between them all the time (often to downgrade as much as upgrade honestly). It's that I think people are misrepresenting the kinds of results you can get from these models and seem to take it as a personal attack and come up with excuses when you talk about limitations that you've encountered. It makes it difficult to engage in conversations about tools and…
When the original post has no clue what model they are using it throws all credibility out the window. At that point it’s appropriate to point that out to them with suggestions. Nobody here was suggesting that LLMs are PhDs like you are saying. You are the only one bringing that up.
Well, that's the point. As long as they are using a recent-ish model it really doesn't matter. Not that there are no differences in performances between models, it's that there is no model today that even comes close not requiring extensive hand-holding to accomplish real-world software engineering of even slightly moderate complexity.
Case in point: I have been frustrated that most markdown viewers don't do automatic indentation of section levels. I thought, this is a perfect test of coding assistants: the problem and solution is straightforward conceptually, and I don't even care about the platform and architecture used to accomplish it.
I've asked all the major models to implement a simple markdown viewer that could do automatic indentation, and they all fall flat. Some even give me code that will not run; of the rest, none has provided code that basically does the thing I've asked for.