Work got us licenses for Claude AI, so when I'm coding in Visual Studio Code, I can ask Claude how to write better code, make sure my code is bulletproof, or even have it write unit tests for me. The only problem is I can burn through my allotted use in like four days. Then I get kicked to GPT-4. This is the AI from OpenAI — the one Sam Altman is CEO of. It is the stupidest AI I have used. Okay, it does know stuff, but if you ask it to fix code, it can put things in random places. Like a React element right in the middle of a function.
I asked Gemini why GPT-4 does that, and apparently it's a known issue that it lacks spatial awareness. And then I had a working page, and I asked it to remove all console logs. It broke the code completely so the page wouldn't load. I asked it to revert, and it was still broken. I asked it to go back to what we had an hour ago, and it went back to the placeholder page you get when you first set up a React project.
I asked it to add a new component to a list of imported components, and it added it to the list but didn't put a comma between it and the previous component. Stupid! I have to wait until January for Claude to reset, so I tried switching to Grok, another one of the free AI agents, and it looked like it was working so far. We'll see next week if it ends up getting stupid too when I use it more.