4 ms·
On Wolfram specifically, GPT-5 is a huge step up from GPT-4. One of the first things I asked it was to write me a mathematica program to test the basic properti
by seanhunter 1y ago
On Wolfram specifically, GPT-5 is a huge step up from GPT-4. One of the first things I asked it was to write me a mathematica program to test the basic properties (injectivity, surjectivity, bijectivity) of various functions. The notebook it produced was
1) 100% correct
2) Really useful (ie it includes various things I didn’t ask for but are really great like a little manipulator to walk through the function at various points and visualize what the mapping is doing)
3) Built in a general way so I can easily change the mapping to explore different types of functions and how they work.
It seems very clear (both from what they said in the launch demos etc and from my experience of trying it out) that performance on coding tasks has been an area of massive focus and the results are pretty clear to me.
- hinkley 1y agoSooner or later, I end up with a coworker or two who takes it for granted that my code is usually very solid (a bit too solid according to some). I end up with a bug in production that was way too dumb not to catch it in review, and the reviewer confesses to not looking very closely at the code. I think of that every time people talk about trusting generated code. Or the obfuscated code competition. It’s going to get you into the dumbest trouble some day.
- pixl97 1y agoI mean, you dont even need LLMs involved for bad code and bad reviewing. People create it naturally.
- croes 1y agoI gave GPT 5 a web component to find errors and fix them and it totally messed up the the design. It suggested two new attributes which it did not add after claiming that this had been done, and after this was done, the attributes were not used.