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I'm a recent convert, been experimenting with converting one PL to another.

GPT-3.5 will get the gist of what the code is doing, and then provide what looks like a direct translation but differs in numerous details whilst having a bunch of other problems.

GPT-4 does a correct translation, almost every time.

It kills me that there's a waiting list for the API. I have put together some tools to integrate 3.5 into my workflow and it helps for my current task a lot (for others it's useless). But to really shine it needs to have API access to 4.




I recently finally got access to 4 in the API, it's good. It's much better imo at following the system prompt too. Faster than you see in chatgpt I think, not as fast as 3.5-turbo but definitely less tedious.




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