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by lynx23 657 days ago
The more I use this stuff, the less I am convinced it can be used as a tutor. Actually, I think the reverse is true. It could be used to generate bad code for code reviewers to spot!

Just recently gave it a 80 line header-only C++20 code snippet to comment on. As first item, it concluded that my header should be split into a .hpp/.cpp combination. And it proceeded to take one of my template functions, and move the definition into the .cpp file... This is wrong, and broken. Because now, nobody can call that template.

And that is with gpt-4o, the latest flagship thingy... I am sure Claude users will now tell me their pet is more perfect.

Frankly, I think we are trying to beat a dead horse here. This is not helpful.

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Gpt-4o, in my unprofessional opinion, is miles worse than the old gpt-4. I believe it has higher scores on benchmarks, but only because it spits out paragraphs and paragraphs of useless information.
>And that is with gpt-4o, the latest flagship thingy... I am sure Claude users will now tell me their pet is more perfect.

It's definitely much better than GPT-4o for most programming tasks, yes. And that's just the free version.

We've tried to fix these issues with Edmigo. You can give it a try!