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I'm the creator of rqlite[1], an open-source distributed database written in Go.

It's saving me time (sometimes 2x speed up on certain, well-specified, tasks), and I enjoy using it. I wrote a blog post with some details on how it has helped me code the database: https://www.philipotoole.com/what-did-gpt-4-find-wrong-with-...

That said, the most recent release of GPT-4 seems a little more buggy[2].

[1] https://www.rqlite.io

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970711



I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed. I’ve been having better luck with 3.5 recently as long as I use the API to give it some examples to start with.


Reading your blogpost it wasn't clear to me how you ran your code through GPT-4. Which prompts did you use?


I brought up the web UI, and said something like this: "Here is a Go source file, see any problems, issues, or suggested bug fixes? <paste the Go code>"

Simple as that. Of course, sometimes I got the "message too big" error. So I pasted bits of the sources files, choosing pieces I thought were reasonably self-contained. I also fed much of my unit tests through it, asking "see any missing test cases?" While some of the answers were not that helpful, digesting the feedback from GPT-4 made me think more about my code, and make some changes for the better.


Nice, that's simple enough! You may want to try talking to it via the API, last time I checked the web UI doesn't accept prompts >4K tokens while GPT-4 via the API has a 8K Token limit. And then there's the 32K version...


I can't believe they are only charging me $20/month for access to GPT-4. I'd pay more for it.


I’d pay more if it was faster, had API access, and stronger privacy.

Right now Sam Altman is channeling Zuckaberg by claiming to be the good guy changing the world, but in reality hoarding data and asking congress to build him a moat.


Exactly. Not only that, but according to a recently filed lawsuit they’re providing preferential access to YC batch companies first and then everyone else.




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