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YesGPT · 17 Mar 2023

GPT-4 does a noticeably better job and produces code I actually want to use way more often

dmix on Hacker News

In the thread “Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems”

Helped: GPT-4 generated concise, focused code with better variable naming.

Got in the way: Occasional unused variables and annoying syntax choices remain.

From my own sampling of going through about 10 times I used GPT for real world Typescript code, some used in production, I can confirm that GPT-4 does a noticeably better job and produces code I actually want to use way more often. GPT-3.5 always produced very verbose types and over engineered code. …