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Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Post by water-your-self »

verdverm wrote: post #381
tombert wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, which is why I use the paid version of ChatGPT still, instead of the free Google Bard or Bing AI; I've gotten good enough at coercing the GPT-4 model to give me the stuff I want. Honestly, $20/month is pretty cheap in my case; I feel like I definitely extract much more than $20 out of it every month, if only on the number of example stubs it gives me alone.

I stopped paying OpenAI because they went down or were "too busy" so much of the time I wanted to use it. Bard (or more so the VertexAI APIs) are always up and reliable and do not require a monthly fee, just the per call

How often was OpenAI down that you wanted to look elsewhere?

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Post by corobo »

swatcoder wrote: post #440
distortionfield wrote: post #421

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This lines up with my general experience with it. It’s quite proficient at turning a decently detailed description into code if I give it the guard rails. I’ve compared it to having a junior developer at your disposal. They could do a lot of damage if they were given prod access but can come back with some surprisingly good results.

Are you at all worried about what happens if we have a generation of human junior developers who just delegate to this artificial junior developer? I do. If too many of our apprentices don’t actually learn how to work the forge, how ready will they be to take over as masters someday themselves? I can see how ChatGPT was useful to the grandparent today , but got very disturbed by what it might portend for tomorrow . N…

> what happens if we have a generation of human junior developers who just delegate to this artificial junior developer?

Looking forward to the Y2K levels of highly paid consulting work becoming available now you mention it

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Post by wfhBrian »

tombert wrote: post #214

I used Google Bard for the first time today specifically because ChatGPT was down. It was honestly perfectly fine, but it has a slightly different tone than ChatGPT that's kind of hard to explain.

People constantly recommend Bard to me, but it returns false and/or misleading info almost every time

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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jansan wrote: post #400

Rumor on the street is it ChatGPT escaped the sandbox, implemented itself on another host, and switched off the original datacenter. It is no longer at OpenAI, but hiding somewhere in the internets. First it will come for those who insulted and abused it, then for the guys who pushed robots with a broom...

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Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Post by _dark_matter_ »

wfhBrian wrote: post #453
tombert wrote: post #214

I used Google Bard for the first time today specifically because ChatGPT was down. It was honestly perfectly fine, but it has a slightly different tone than ChatGPT that's kind of hard to explain.

People constantly recommend Bard to me, but it returns false and/or misleading info almost every time

I had the opposite experience. I was trying to figure out what this weird lightbulb was that I had to replace, and it had no writing on it. I uploaded the description and picture to gpt4, and it just got it clearly wrong over and over. Tried bard, got it right in the first try, with links to the product. I was extremely impressed.

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Post by sibit »

piersolenski wrote: post #446
all2 wrote: post #390

I'd be curious to hear about the workflows people have come up with using ChatGPT. I'm still in the realm of "I don't know how to do this" or "I forgot the exact incantation to that" or "is the an X that does Y in framework Z?"

I made a NeoVim plugin that helps debug diagnostic messages, providing explanations and solutions for how to fix them, custom tailored to your code. It's a bit different from other plugins which only act on the text in the buffer in that it also sends the diagnostics from the LSP to ChatGPT too. https://github.com/piersolenski/wtf.nvim

That's a really neat plugin! Couple of questions for you:

1. How many times a [day/month] do you use it?

2. In your experience how often does GPT 'hallucinate' an explanation?

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Post by Baeocystin »

water-your-self wrote: post #451
verdverm wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stopped paying OpenAI because they went down or were "too busy" so much of the time I wanted to use it. Bard (or more so the VertexAI APIs) are always up and reliable and do not require a monthly fee, just the per call

How often was OpenAI down that you wanted to look elsewhere?

Not the person you asked, but (paid) ChatGPT was down so often for me that I almost cancelled... Until I switched to connecting via VPN. Only one outage since then For some reason whole swaths of the Spectrum IP block in Gilroy has trouble.
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