I'm super happy that people share stuff like this to discredit AI and say that it doesn't help with code.

And then I correct it and say "hey yeah there's two Ls in a row" and it apologises for its mistake and gives me perfect code.

Yeah it can't give you perfectly working code 100% of the time for every single thing, first time. What it can do is can get you 75% of the way, and then get to 99% with a short conversation.

Just let every company that does this, fail.

Like that time we all stood up together to stop self service checkouts at grocery stores.

I mean there isn't a repetition of a single letter. There's a single instance of a double letter.

What's the prompt? GPT-4 tends to handle these things better. Not perfect, but better!

You would be making a huge mistake to look at this and say "AI isn't there yet. We have nothing to worry about."

In this case here, is just a misunderstand about how GPT-3.5 sees words and to what degree it can examine is own output. The user here has found a double blindspot, where GPT-3.5 appears to be weakest, because we assume that it "sees" the interface as we do and thinks in the same way we do.

A couple things to keep in mind: you can easily plug gpt into additional functions, which will give it whatever language-parsing abilities you need. Secondly, you can simply ask GPT to review it's answers, and you'll get a 85% improvement on just the first pass.

Moreover, gpt4 is a completely different animal. Much smarter right out of the box.

Lastly, it's really important to remember to think about a large language models like gpt3 and gpt4 as if they were the language centers of the brain... Not the complete brain.

They are capable of extremely advanced reasoning and creativity. And with just a little bit of know how even an amateur programmer can plug these things into additional tools which turn them into essential, AGIs... Like Jarvis from iron Man, or HAL from 2001.

Try it with gpt4