Comment on “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews

obbeel@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think that depends on what you’re doing. I find Claude miles ahead of the pack in practical, but fairly nuanced coding issues - particularly in use as a paired programmer with Strongly Typed FP patterns.

  And their new CLI client is pretty decent - it seems to really take advantage of the hybrid CoT/standard auto-switching model advantage Claude now has.

  I don’t use it often anymore but when I reach for a model first for coding - it’s Claude. It’s the mostly likely to be able to grasp the core architectural patterns in a codebase (like a consistent monadic structure for error handling or consistently well-defined architectural layers).

  I just recently cancelled my one month trial of Gemini - it was pretty useless; easy to get stuck in a dumb loop even with project files as context.

  And GPT-4/o1/o3 seems to really suck at being prescriptive - often providing walls of multiple solutions that all somehow narrowly missing the plot - even with tons of context.

  That said Claude sucks - SUCKS - at statistics - being completely unreliable where GPT-4 is often pretty good and provides code (Python) for verification.

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