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YesGPT · 27 Mar 2024

I got a pretty good working answer in about, ohhh, 15 seconds

Balgair on Hacker News

64X increase in productivity

In the thread “Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark”, replying to this comment

Helped: Iterating on generated Python script for data processing.

Got in the way: Initial code did not work first time.

… Writing a python program to do the job would take me about a full work day, likely two. But, when I fired up GPT3.5 (I'm a schlub, I know!) and typed in the request, I got a pretty good working answer in about, ohhh, 15 seconds. Sure, it didn't work the first time, but I was able to hack at it, iterate with GPT3.5 only twice, and I got my work done just fine. …