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ChatGPT Plus for tedious coding stuff and sometimes throw in user instructions/error messages and ask it to give me ten alternatives, and see if it can do better. I also use it to give me a starting place/draft for personal correspondence. I find working from a draft and "fixing it" far easier than a blank sheet of paper.

I have plans to use LLMs to help me create a document format converter (XML to XML via XSLT), but unfortunately most of them don't support enough tokens to take in both the starting document's format and also detailed instructions on what to do. So I am very token capped on that project currently (and also GPT-4 requests-per-hour capped, least of all because I need to break my tasks apart). I've tried converting the starting XML to a series of xpaths, but then the LLM loses a lot of context and the result is ultimately less-good.

I'd like to give LLaMA-2 a play for my conversion project, but haven't had the time, and don't ultimately know enough to know if token limits are a technical limitation or a financial limitation for the services (i.e. can I give it unlimited tokens if I don't care how long it takes to complete?). Plus getting it up and running locally isn't exactly turn-key right now.

I tried Bing and Bard too; both support some web integrations which is nice, and you can generate some [bad] picture content, but they're both worse than ChatGPT for minimalist chat with Bing being too much nonsense/irrelevant Bing-service-spam (and often cuts you off) and Bard just being worse than GPT-3.5 let alone GPT-4.

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