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Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

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Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#72
post #57

I know it isn't popular, but I wish there was a way to use this inside Emacs. Or, vim. I just don't want to use VS Code anymore.

If only the depth of our feelings for Emacs counted for more in the market.

There's an argument that music and the arts are dumbed down by the fact that, for instance, making an album worth $10 to millions of people pays way better than making an album worth a million dollars to tens of people, since the album is going to get priced at $10 one way or the other. It only just now occurred to me that the same phenomenon applies to tools.

Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#73

I tried this question and GPT4 did way way better to getting closer to a final answer. Phind was horribly wrong. I can't help but think something seems off with your eval given just how badly Phind did on this. I want to make an interactive plot in Colab where I can show X axis is interest rate of a 15 year mortgage. Y axis is the relative advantage of buying a house vs. renting in terms of total net worth at 15 year…

Seemed to give plausible results for me: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=lswmiuewv2l33jt337dgrsho

Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#74

Didn't work fine when I asked it a design question: the code and API it used is not correct. GPT-4 did a better job. https://www.phind.com/search?cache=ay8rx37gq8oy3z7uixftlqkt https://chat.openai.com/share/a3a91dcc-a91a-4b04-8afd-40bd1a...

Not looking deeply at the technical side of the answers, but the time of GPT4's answer is very casual/conversational (it starts with "Alright, listen up." and keeps that tone throughout).

I think you might get a better answer if you rewrote your prompt using full sentences and more formal language.

Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#76

I tried this, but I still have yet to get any LLM to answer me a programming question (that actually works) that I actually want to solve. Basically: "How can I send network control commands to an AppleTV in C#" They always make up some nonexistent library or gives an example using some nonexistent API.

I’d guess the intersection of both tech has low training content so it starts dreaming. If you break up the question into “AppleTV API” (or whatever the primary terms are), then use that context for C# it might work better? Isolate the Apple bit so it uses more specific parts of the training.

Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#77
post #57

I know it isn't popular, but I wish there was a way to use this inside Emacs. Or, vim. I just don't want to use VS Code anymore.

The standardizing on VS code is one of the saddest developments over the last several years IMHO. I think it's great that VS Code exists, but we're headed for a world where you have to use VS Code if you want the best tooling because it won't support other options. The same thing happened with Java dev and IntelliJ, and IMHO it has been extremely unhealthy for the ecosystem. I'm immensely glad that Copilot supports vim, but I'm fearful that it soon won't.

Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#78
I'm glad there's growing competition, but GPT4 still outperforms. Here's a recent question I asked:

Could you please provide me with a query for my PostgreSQL table? It consists of three columns: 'id,' 'teaser,' and 'full_text,' all of which are of type 'text.' Most 'full_text' entries are articles around 1000 words in length. I'd like to update the 'teaser' column for each row with the first approximately 200 words from the 'full_text' column. How can I achieve this?

Phind:

  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_first_n_words(text, integer)
  RETURNS text AS $$
  DECLARE
     word_count integer := 0;
     word_start integer := 1;
     word_end integer;
  BEGIN
     WHILE word_count 
GPT4:

  UPDATE your_table_name
  SET teaser = (
      SELECT STRING_AGG(word, ' ') 
      FROM (
          SELECT SPLIT_PART(full_text, ' ', i) AS word
          FROM generate_series(1, 200) AS i
      ) AS words
      WHERE word  ''
  )
  WHERE full_text IS NOT NULL;

Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#79
Been using Phind for a bit now and started paying for pro

They're smashing it and can't do enough if you report an issue, also they have started a weekly voice call to discuss algos and such with senior devs, like a surgery, only 10 people join at moment

Don't think I've ever recommended anything as much as I have these guys in last couple of months

Re: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

#80
post #68

In my experience, Phind is not as good as GPT4, but it's by far the second best LLM for programming. I find that tremendously impressive considering they are competing against the whole world for that title right now. I agree with the assessment about consistency being its major flaw. While with GPT4 I can continue a conversation for quite long, Phind easily looses the required context. Perhaps it has to do with summ…

Have you tried clicking the model selection dropdown and enabling "Ignore web results"? That can help with keeping context for complicated design tasks.
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