Ask HN: Has ChatGPT gotten worse at coding for anyone else?

I used it for coding in Python, often with the python-docx library, about six weeks ago, and it was superb. It gave me exactly what I wanted, which is no mean feat for a semi-obscure little library, and I was delighted. Then I tried it again a few weeks ago and it did worse than before, but I thought maybe it was just bad luck. Using it today, though, it seemed really really bad and it messed up some very basic Python features, like the walrus operator — it got so bad that I gave up on it and went back to google and stack overflow. The performance drop is so steep that I can only imagine they crippled the model, probably to cope with the explosion in demand. Has anyone else seen the same thing?
Story Published at: February 18, 2023 at 04:50PM