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Once I had tried Bing Chat, it had prompted to open in edge and I ignored. After your comment I went back and tried it again. It certainly seems to find some mo

Once I had tried Bing Chat, it had prompted to open in edge and I ignored. After your comment I went back and tried it again. It certainly seems to find some more details after I specify the prompt well. I admit it's a clear improvement. (Thank you for pointing out.) But it still gave some unsatisfactory answers in short interaction. I asked to write a comparator to sort in decreasing order, for which it returned verbose (anon. class) form of `b - a`, which can go wrong with large negative integers. Surprisingly, it did fairly well when asked to write a custom `JavaFileObject` class for `JavaDoc` toolprovider API, which is fairly obscure and I knew only because I worked with it. (There were errors in code, but they could be spotted by someone who can figure out the code's meaning). So my conclusion from short interaction, bing chat finds stack overflow pages more reliably than Google does (LoL), but still gets affected by crap of society like geeksforgeeks.

nomel 3y ago
Best results come with a conversation style prompt chain. When I have it write code, I always say "identify any corner cases that are not properly handled". If you see an obvious problem, you could tell it to correct it "b - a will cause overflow for large negative numbers. Use an alternative." I see it as an extremely broad, but maybe not incredibly deep, tool, that's most useful when you're not at the extreme specifics/esoteric knowledge. And, bing chat is quite a bit different than ChatGPT 4 (no search), which is quite a bit different than raw GPT 4 completions.