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Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#61

I just tried. Asked a question on a research topic I'm digging into. It gave me some answers but no references. Then I copy the answers it gave me and specifically ask for references. Then I got: I sincerely apologize for my earlier response. Upon reviewing the search results provided, I realize I made an error in referencing those specific studies. The search results don't contain any relevant information for the cl…

Just to follow up on this: I asked it to give me a brief explanation on how to use laravel 11 blade fragments, which it did reasonably well.

I then offered 3 lines of code of a route I'm using in Laravel and I asked to tell me how to implement fragment usage where the parameter in the url determines the fragment returned.

Route::get('/vge-frags/{fragment}', function ($fragment) { return view('vge-fragments'); });

It told me to make sure I have the right view created (which I did) and that was a good start. Then...

It recommended this?

Route::get('/vge-frags/{fragment}', function ($fragment) { return fragment($fragment); });

I immediately knew it was wrong (but somebody looking to learn might not know). So I had to ask it: "Wait, how does the code know which view to use"?

Then it gave me the right answer.

Route::get('/vge-frags/{fragment}', function ($fragment) { return view('vge-fragments')->fragment($fragment); });

I dunno. It's really easy to find edge cases with any of these models and you have to essentially question everything you receive. Other times it's very powerful and useful.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#62

I just tried. Asked a question on a research topic I'm digging into. It gave me some answers but no references. Then I copy the answers it gave me and specifically ask for references. Then I got: I sincerely apologize for my earlier response. Upon reviewing the search results provided, I realize I made an error in referencing those specific studies. The search results don't contain any relevant information for the cl…

Just to follow up on this: I asked it to give me a brief explanation on how to use laravel 11 blade fragments, which it did reasonably well. I then offered 3 lines of code of a route I'm using in Laravel and I asked to tell me how to implement fragment usage where the parameter in the url determines the fragment returned. Route::get('/vge-frags/{fragment}', function ($fragment) { return view('vge-fragments'); }); It…

This is a good point, and we have new application-level features coming soon that to improve verifiability.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to follow up on this: I asked it to give me a brief explanation on how to use laravel 11 blade fragments, which it did reasonably well. I then offered 3 lines of code of a route I'm using in Laravel and I asked to tell me how to implement fragment usage where the parameter in the url determines the fragment returned. Route::get('/vge-frags/{fragment}', function ($fragment) { return view('vge-fragments'); }); It…

This is a good point, and we have new application-level features coming soon that to improve verifiability.

I dunno if you need it but I'd be happy to come up with some scenarios and help test

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry about that, could you make sure that "Always search" is enabled and try that first query again? It should be able to get the correct answer with references.

It was on. If I ask the same question again it now gets the right answer. Maybe a blip? Not sure. To be fair, I don't expect these AI models to give me perfect answers every time. I'm just not sure people are vigilant enough to ask follow up questions that criticize how the AI got the answers to ensure the answers come from somewhere reasonable.

I found that quite often even though the always search option is on, it won’t search at times; maybe that was the case here.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#66

Does anybody use Phind? What do you use it for?

Been subbed for 8+ months. Mostly use it for API questions. It's been amazing at MomentJs stuff. Also use it for code optimization and debugging error messages.

Thank you for being a Pro sub :)

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#68
"A key issue with AI-powered search is that it is just too slow compared to classic Google. Even if it generates a better answer, the added latency is discouraging."

Is this true? I feel like most complaints I have and hear about is how inaccurate some of the AI results are. I.e. the mistakes it confidently makes when helping you code.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#70

I get a blank page with the text "Service is unavailable in this region." Any reason why Phind is region-locked? Is there a list of what countries Phind is available in?

Interesting. I'm not working for phind, but can you share which region are you trying to access it from?
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