[spaceman_2020]

GPT-4 is miles ahead of the competition. It's not even remotely close.

I asked it to help me design an app for a specific use case. It came up with a list of features, the tech stack, and even designed an initial database.

[greyman]

Yes and no. Or, yes for such use cases you mentioned, also it is miles ahead in reasoning capability, translations from Chinese, etc. etc. But still, for more casual talk, like bouncing ideas, brainstorming etc., I prefer Claude. It's kind of more "friendly", less formal, and, which is sometimes also important, much quicker.

[capableweb]

Have you used GPT-4 via the API or via ChatGPT only? The difference is huge, as with the API you can control the parameter + you can set your own system prompt (basically steer the AI better).

With the API, you can basically customize the session ranging from providing batshit bananas replies (by setting high temperature) or almost deterministic replies (by setting low temperature) with personality controlled by the system prompt, so you can make it "friendlier", "less formal" or anything else.

It is still as slow via the API as via ChatGPT though, which kind of sucks when you're using it for longer passages. I do wish it was just about 100% faster.

[greyman]

I use both ChatGPT and API. Mostly I would say I use it for work and when I learn Chinese, and Claude is in my mobile via Poe app, which I use for more casual talk or when I know the answer doesn't require advanced reasoning. Then I also use phind.com website, which I would say is like a better Bing (at least for programming queries).

[spaceman_2020]

Yeah, even with coding questions, I have to ask it to only write the code. Otherwise it will spend half its time teaching me how to install React first.