[wkat4242]

Much faster, 10x cheaper and still good enough for most things.

I don't think gpt-4 is worth its 10fold price premium for all but niche usecases (coding may be one but I don't do that too much). And the much longer response delays are annoying.

I think 3.5 turbo is a really nice general use model. And the price difference makes it worry free (I use it a lot and most months I used less than $1) whereas gpt-4 really tends to trigger disturbing invoices after using it a bit :)

I still have 4 on tap for a second opinion if I'm dissatisfied with gpt-3.5 but in general it doesn't really yield much better results, whereas better prompt engineering helps much more with both models.

Of course YMMV but I wouldn't write gpt-3.5 off just because it's no longer the coolest kid on the block.

[hackerlight]

I recommend free access Bard (Gemini Pro, which is better than GPT-3.5) for the miscellaneous requests and GPT-4 if you need quality.

[wkat4242]

I don't trust Google enough to feed them my data though. I don't even use a google account on my Android devices :)

OpenAI and Microsoft aren't a lot better but it is somewhat better at least.

So Gemini isn't an option for me. Curiously enough, LLaMa 2 is, even though it's from meta, but the fact that you can run it at home is of course a real winner for privacy.