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GPT-4o vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding

by bpiroman on 8/25/24, 2:20 AM with 24 comments

• by anthonycerra on 8/27/24, 7:24 PM

  I've had premium subs with both and switched to Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I'm blown away by what it can do. Example for context:

  I'm a software dabbler so I can do basic stuff with frameworks like Django, but I'm definitely not a developer by any stretch. My use case is to build mvps cheap and quickly to test out ideas.

  Claude spit out a Django project that integrated Twilio for SMS functionality. What's _really_ amazing is that it also walked me through how to set up ngrok and Twilio so that I could use my computer as a temporary server. Again, I'm a dabbler so devops is completely over my head.

  In maybe 2 hours I had a functioning prototype that I could interact with via SMS. I can't comment on the quality of the code or how viable this approach is for building in production, but to bring an idea to life so quickly with limited skills is really exciting.

• by erikthiart on 8/25/24, 9:12 AM

  Claude is 5x better than ChatGPT premium.

  The only issue I have with Claude is that the rate limits are retarded.

  Impossible to get real work done.

• by papascrubs on 8/28/24, 7:49 AM

  I use Sonnet and sometimes Opus via Phind. They also offer their own 70b model. Phind replaced my chatgpt and claude pro subscriptions. The VSCode addon works decently well and the training/data sharing opt outs are clear and easy to enable and see the status of.

• by binsquare on 8/26/24, 8:20 AM

  It's interesting that the data point from an AI aggregator I run are in conflict with the other responses here..

  But I've seen GPT-4o's responses to be much preferred over Claude 3.5 Sonnet and most of my customers are techy though I'm not sure it's for coding tasks.

  As for me, I prefer gpt-4o.

• by muzani on 8/26/24, 12:51 PM

  4o is great with UI. Specifically the kind of things you'd see on Codepen. Build a mood board, see what you get. With transitions and animations and stuff, it's actually better than the average senior FE.

  3.5 Sonnet for all else.

• by yadav-saurabh on 8/25/24, 6:10 AM

  I find Claude solutions better than GPT-4o for my coding errors and questions

• by zn44 on 8/25/24, 6:08 AM

  For my use cases: web development with python, c#, react and unity3d extension development. Claude is significantly better.

  I switched over few months ago and still test GPT from time to time, Claude wins every time

• by wishpal on 8/28/24, 8:02 AM

  What about Gemini 1.5Pro? I think its also quite good. Any comparison points there?