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		jw1224 on Sept 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT-4 is not getting worse Are you using the API, or just the ChatGPT UI? Do custom instructions/system messages help at all? Saving resources like this seems okay(ish) for general-purpose ChatGPT, as they'd know there's a human who can interpret the abridged output. But for API-driven requests this would be pretty terrible, and makes it far harder to develop with.

wouldbecouldbe on Sept 16, 2023 [–]

no the UI, where I ask it to "Please write out entire code with skipping parts."

nomel on Sept 16, 2023 | [–]

ChatGPT 3 or 4? Try the playground. I’ve had much better luck with system prompts.

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