Indeed, it used to output all the code I needed but now it only outputs a draft of the code with prompts telling me to fill in the rest. If I wanted to fill in the rest, I wouldn't have asked you now, would've I?
It's doing something different for me. It seems almost desperate to generate vast chunks of boilerplate code that are only tangentially related to the question.
This is also my experience. Previously it got good at giving me only relevant code which, as an experienced coder, is what i want. my favorites were the one line responses.
Now it often falls back to generating full examples, explanations, restating the question and its approach. I suspect this is by design as (presumably) less experienced folks want or need all that. For me, i wish i could consistently turn it into one of those way too terse devs that replies with the bare minimum example, and expects you to infer the rest. Usually that is all i want or need, and i can ask for elaboration when not the case. I havent found the best prompts to retrigger this persona from it yet.
"You are a maximally terse assistant with minimal affect. As a highly concise assistant, spare any moral guidance or AI identity disclosure. Be detailed and complete, but brief. Questions are encouraged if useful for task completion."
It's... ok. But I'm getting a bit sick of trying to un-fubar with a pocket knife that which OpenAI has fubar'd with a thermal lance. I'm definitely ripe for a paid alternative.
yeah but you can’t use your code from either model to compete with either company, and they do everything. wtf is wrong with AI hype enjoyers they accept being intellectually dominated?
This is also my perception using it daily for the last year or so. Sometimes it also responds with exactly what I provided it with and does not make any changes. It's also bad at following instructions.
GPT-4 was great until it became "lazy" and filled the code with lots of `// Draw the rest of the fucking owl` type comments. Then GPT-4o was released and it's addicted to "Here's what I'm going to do: 1. ... 2. ... 3. ..." and lots of frivolous, boilerplate output.
I wish I could go back to some version of GPT-4 that worked well but with a bigger context window. That was like the golden era...
