I finally chose between GPT-4 and Claude for my coding side project

Went with Claude for a Python script I've been debugging for 3 months, and it caught a logic error in 5 minutes that GPT-4 kept missing. Has anyone else found one model way better for a specific task like this?

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the_max3d ago

That's the thing with these models - they each have weird blind spots. What type of logic error was it, something with nested loops or a data type mismatch? Curious if Claude's strength is just better at following complex code paths.

barbara2783d ago

My neighbor's kid had me look at his homework assignment where he used Claude to help with a Python script and it got tripped up on a simple off-by-one error in a for loop. The model went on for three paragraphs explaining the logic perfectly but somehow missed that the loop start was literally one number off. I told the kid "at least you're smarter than the AI because you spotted it faster than I did." Between you and me though, I still can't follow nested loops without drawing little boxes on paper so maybe I'm the one with the blind spot.