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ChatGPT was a massive dopamine hit, particularly for people in areas like development. It was a tremendous release that has definitely laid out some new tracks

ChatGPT was a massive dopamine hit, particularly for people in areas like development. It was a tremendous release that has definitely laid out some new tracks for the future, especially on the web. I myself have found to be using ChatGPT a lot less recently. I got the GPT-4 API access and then I realized that I can't really use it for anything super major because I can't afford it, it is ridiculously expensive if you consider that you have to pay for all the failed requests, the wrong information or the wrong context also. Instead, I have written a bunch of Python scripts that do a select few tasks for me and I have my terminal open 24/7 anyway. As for the topic at hand, I have _definitely_ noticed a lot more disclaimers in the UI. I don't get it from the API at all, in 6 months that I have been using the API - I've gotten one disclaimer. In the ChatGPT UI - I get them a lot. "Remember this", "Remember that", "Always look up the information" and things like this. I mean if it wasn't happening I would know because I have been a power-user pretty much all this time...

caeril 3y ago
> it is ridiculously expensive What? It's 3p/6c cents per 1k tokens. I use GPT4 for all kinds of things, but a very basic example: Automatic API client/stub/endpoint generation with GPT4 for reasonable/typical data structure sizes, 4k tokens buys me GET/POST/DELETE/PUT for all of the above. The completion request finishes in about 90 seconds. A human junior developer would take nearly an hour. In the best case, maybe 20 minutes using something like Swagger. So that's ~20 cents versus $60 or so, to say nothing of the time. And this extends to everything else: writing tests, refactoring, writing configuration files, UI generation, database schema and SQL query generation, etc. What the hell are you even talking about?
- skilled 3y ago
  Maybe more pay attention to my comment, > super major Also, it sounds like you have no idea that feeding the API back what it has written improves it tenfold for complex tasks. Enjoy your 90 second requests though.

caeril 3y ago

> it is ridiculously expensive What? It's 3p/6c cents per 1k tokens. I use GPT4 for all kinds of things, but a very basic example: Automatic API client/stub/endpoint generation with GPT4 for reasonable/typical data structure sizes, 4k tokens buys me GET/POST/DELETE/PUT for all of the above. The completion request finishes in about 90 seconds. A human junior developer would take nearly an hour. In the best case, maybe 20 minutes using something like Swagger. So that's ~20 cents versus $60 or so, to say nothing of the time. And this extends to everything else: writing tests, refactoring, writing configuration files, UI generation, database schema and SQL query generation, etc. What the hell are you even talking about?

skilled 3y ago
Maybe more pay attention to my comment, > super major Also, it sounds like you have no idea that feeding the API back what it has written improves it tenfold for complex tasks. Enjoy your 90 second requests though.