Frontier model has much better knowledge and they usually hallucinate less. It's not about the coding capabilities, it's about how much you can trust the model.

▲ Barbing 13 hours ago | parent [-]

re: trust-

Have you tried the free version of ChatGPT? It is positively appalling. It’s like GPT 3.5 but prompted to write three times as much as necessary to seem useful. I wonder how many people have embarrassed themselves, lost their jobs, and been critically misinformed. All easy with state-of-the-art models but seemingly a guarantee with the bottom sub-slop tier.

Is the average person just talking to it about their day or something?

	▲	PhilipRoman 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I use the free version of ChatGPT (without logging in) when I need some one-off question without a huge context. Real world prompt: `"when hostapd initializes 80211 iface over nl80211, what attributes correspond to selected standard version like ax or be?"` It works fine, avoids falling into trap due to misleading question. Probably works even better for more popular technologies. Yeah, it has higher failure rates but it's not a dealbreaker for non-autonomous use cases.
	▲	theshrike79 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Even the paid version of ChatGPT tends to use a 1000 words when 10 will do. You can try asking it the same question as Claude and compare the answers. I can guarantee you that the ChatGPT answer won't fit on a single screen on a 32" 4k monitor. Claude's will.
	▲	throwaway27448 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If someone blindly submits chatbot output they deserve to be embarrassed and fired. But I don't think that's going to improve.
	▲	jychang 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The free version of ChatGPT is insanely crippled, so that's not surprising.