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Claude 2.1

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Re: Claude 2.1

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For coding it is still 10x worse than gpt4. I asked it to write a simple database sync function and it gives me tons of pseudocode like `//sync object with best practices`. When I ask it to give me real code it forgets tons of key aspects.

Except: you can feed it an entire programming language manual, all the docs for all the modules you want to use, and _then_ it's stunningly good, whipping chatgpt4 that same 10x.

Gpt4 has 128k context length now.

Re: Claude 2.1

#53
post #49

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Except: you can feed it an entire programming language manual, all the docs for all the modules you want to use, and _then_ it's stunningly good, whipping chatgpt4 that same 10x.

I honestly don’t have time for that level of prompt engineering. So, chatGPT wins (for me)

Yeah but if their model would be accessible it would already have good vscode extension

Re: Claude 2.1

#54
post #19

For coding it is still 10x worse than gpt4. I asked it to write a simple database sync function and it gives me tons of pseudocode like `//sync object with best practices`. When I ask it to give me real code it forgets tons of key aspects.

Yeah but to be honest been a pain last days to get gpt 4 to write full pieces of code for more the 10-15 lines. Have to re-ask many times and at some point it forgets my initial specifications.

Re: Claude 2.1

#55

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Agreed, but I do find gpt4 has been increasing the amount of pseudo code recently. I think they are a/b testing me. I find myself asking if how much energy it wasted giving me replies that I then have to tell it to fix.. Which is of course a silly thing to do, but maybe someone at oAI is listening?

If you mean through the user friendly chat GPT website, they're probably making it output as few tokens as possible to cut costs

That can't be, because I can ask it a simple question that an answer is maybe 1 sentence, and it repeats the question then provides a whole novel. So ton of tokens.

Re: Claude 2.1

#57
post #19

For coding it is still 10x worse than gpt4. I asked it to write a simple database sync function and it gives me tons of pseudocode like `//sync object with best practices`. When I ask it to give me real code it forgets tons of key aspects.

Except: you can feed it an entire programming language manual, all the docs for all the modules you want to use, and _then_ it's stunningly good, whipping chatgpt4 that same 10x.

If you need a lot of revisions/tweaks, the price could be pretty prohibitive.

Re: Claude 2.1

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, but I do find gpt4 has been increasing the amount of pseudo code recently. I think they are a/b testing me. I find myself asking if how much energy it wasted giving me replies that I then have to tell it to fix.. Which is of course a silly thing to do, but maybe someone at oAI is listening?

If you mean through the user friendly chat GPT website, they're probably making it output as few tokens as possible to cut costs

Wow, imagine paying so they can experiment on you and limit what you get. I so wish i found such … useful clients for my own projects.

Re: Claude 2.1

#59

And still can't be accessed from the EU. Guess Anthropic isn't too keen on complying with our data privacy regulations. Guess we'll stick to OpenAI / Microsoft (who seem to manage).

> (who seem to manage)

My take on that is that MS simply accepts being sued and having to pay as part of business. At least, that is how it has been the past few years.

Re: Claude 2.1

#60
I hear good things about it, but the OpenAI API just works, and is available for anyone. Anthropic on the other hand doesn't seem to be open for general business. Why would I build my software on top of something that is not reliably available?
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