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Bars is kind of trash though. GPT-4 tends to so much better in my experience.
I haven't used GPT-4 for that, but it's all dependent on the data fed into it. Like if you ask a question about Javascript, there's loads of that out there for it to look at. But ask it about Delphi, and it'll be less accurate.
And they'll both suffer from the same issue, which is when they reach the edge of their "knowledge", they don't realise it and output data anyway. They don't know what they don't know.
These LLMs generally and GPT-4 in particular really shine if you supply enough and the right context. Give it some code to refactor, to turn hastily slapped together code into idiomatic and well written code, align a code snippet to a different design pattern etc. Platforms like https://phind.com pull in web search results as you interact with them to give you more correct and current information etc.
LLMs are by no means a panacea and have serious limitations, but they are also magic for certain tasks and something I would be very, very sad to miss in my day to day.
they are both shit at adding and subtracting numbers, dates and whatnot... they both cant do basic math unfortunately
It's a language model, I don't know why you would expect math. Tell it to output code to perform the math, that'll work just fine.
Then it should say so instead of attempting and failing at the one thing computers are supposed to be better than us at
I know. It's still baffling how much it messes up when adding two numbers.
It's not baffling at all... It's a language model, not a math robot. It's designed to write English sentences, not to solve math problems.
I just asked GPT-4:
Its reply: