I asked GPT4 to refactor a simple, working python script for my smart lights… and it completely butchered the code and apologized mid-generation.
No amount of pleading or correction would get it to function as it did just a week or two ago.
It is so over.
Microsoft bought it. They’re not going to let their paying userbase of millions of coders evaporate…
Microsoft wants to own tools crucial to the mainstream of software development. They also want to own the cloud infrastructure on which those tools depend. Today, they might lose dimes on every LLM call. In five years, they’ll make a penny on orders of magnitude more calls. Microsoft has many flaws, including cloud capacity, but they aren’t short-sighted about investment. (I used to work in DevDiv and Azure Machine Learning.)
It’s Microsoft. Expecting them to make good and logical decisions is completely delusional.
Good and logical decisions are plausible. However, expecting Microsoft to make consistent decisions and be able to work as a single cohesive team, now that’s delusional.