More than 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, according to OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot. Since its public launch in late 2022, the company promoted the artificial intelligence chatbot as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks. The Post analyzed a collection of

(I linked to the Yahoo version of the article because it’s not paywalled. Original WaPo article is here.)

Since its public launch in late 2022, [OpenAI] promoted [ChatGPT] as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    I’ve found Sonnet 4.5 requires more context building for bigger code asks to yield the same general quality - but the ceiling seems higher. I can context build with 4.5 and accomplish a larger swath of things without getting stuck spinning on rote garbage whereas with 4 that seemed to happen often.

    I’ve also found that context building using Opus 4.1 (and now 4.5) to be pretty useful, then feed that into Sonnet 4.5 for actual execution gets sort of the best of both worlds while reducing cost.