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by TheCaptain4815 1132 days ago
GPT4 is significantly better at code fyi, not sure if you used default ChatGPT (which is 3.5turbo). Premium ChatGPT gives you access to GPT4, but the API gives you even more access with the ability to edit the "system" prompt which Sam Altman's said is very important and which I can attest to from my testing.
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I did and do try it with GPT4 and the API and a custom prompt to help me in rust.

Expecting only knowledge from 2021 it is hit and miss. Helped me to write some scripts but still fails to recognize tasks that are not possible in the language and halluciantes a plausible solution.

It tends to suggest non non compiling and (after being asked to do so) "corrects" bugs (some real some imaginary) and sometimes gets stuck.

Helpful yes, but not yet the invincible overlord some people imagine it to be.

There’s also the code interpreter functionality that’s in alpha access. Not everyone has access to it but it allows you to upload spreadsheets, code files, etc and then uses gpt4 to try and interpret and fix the code.