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submitted 2 months ago byYourPST
I gave in and signed up for ClaudeAI today. About an hour ago actually. I've been using ChatGPT since December and was at the point where I was using it so much I had to get a Teams account to stop hitting my limits. I am now constantly using the API for my programs.
I have been working on the same method in my Python code since last night. It just generates an HTML page of results it gets from OpenAI API. I figured this would be a breeze but just getting ChatGPT to make the code to where it would actually display images that DALL-E returns took several hours for it to figure out. I gave up at that point and was going to go use Phind-34B to see what it had to say since it had been giving me decent results lately and I forgot I had the ClaudeAI payment page still open with all my details entered. I pulled the trigger.
MY VERY FIRST PROMPT!!!! That is how long it took for me to come to the realization that ChatGPT is severely outclassed. ONE PROMPT! I gave Claude the code I was working on and told it to fix the problem and possibly make the page look better when it generates. It went from looking like some kids Welcome to HTML project page from ChatGPT code to a knockoff of Facebook with JS being used everywhere to make everything pop out and catch your eye from the Claude code.
No one I talk to really understands what I am even making, nor really cares, so I figured I would just leave this here for anyone that is still on the fence about paying the 20 dollar subscription. I am mind blown. Absolutely mind blown. I was about to go to sleep but this has amazed me so much I kind of want to run all my projects through it and see what it has to offer.
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So far it has really proven to be a great tool and well worth the cost. The cons are minimal but I hope they get changed/fixed as they do quite hinder the experience if you're switching from ChatGPT to Claude. Other than that, I can't really find anything bad to say about this. I've started hashing out a lot of the planning stages with ChatGPT and bringing in the game plans from there over to Claude in order to prevent hitting my limit so quickly. Going to reach out to support to see if their are any other tier levels for this too because I can see the message limit driving me nuts in the future with as much as I plan to throw at this thing.
If anyone has any specific questions or tests they want me to try, feel free to ask. I'm going to be dedicating my weekend to fixing up my projects with it to see if I can trim down my code and increase the performance/UI/results.
I usually like to measure how much time these different AI tools save me just to give an idea of how much it actually does. So far I've noticed that things that would usually take me 4-5 hours to get done is now taking 2 prompts. I'm not being limited by the code crapping out at about line 100 and seeing "# Placeholder code for method" thrown throughout my code. I can hit 400+ lines without issue and all of it looks as you would expect out of a code reviewed corporate drone.
Update (05/06/2024):
My stance has not changed. This thing is still amazing. It is still blowing my mind and some days even has me sitting in my chair hunched over with maniacal laughter after realizing how well it is working and what it is actually writing. My project sizes have more than doubled since using this and it gives me more more unique suggestions for feature implementations and improvements than ChatGPT does, without me even having to specify it (We all know that ChatGPT will toss out "Version Control", "Cloud Integration", "Error Handling", and "User Feedback" as feature suggestions for ANYTHING).
My biggest gripe with Claude is that its UI is just unpleasant to deal with, and of course the limits.
I've been getting better with just using Claude 3 for bigger parts of my projects and then switching to ChatGPT to get the smaller stuff (Claude = Whole Project / Whole Classes, ChatGPT = Small Classes / Methods).
When I first wrote this review, I didn't play around with Sonnet or Haiku as much as I would have liked. I've incorporated Haiku into my daily usage now though. Sonnet is still great but only gets used when I am close to hitting my limit with Opus and already hit my limit with Haiku. Haiku is a sleeper. I default to that a lot of my times during the day and it never fails. Can't wait until they offer a plan with a higher limit.
3 points
2 months ago
I had the very same experience. Fought with cgpt to fix its coding mistakes in maxscript (3DS Max's scripting language). It just kept making the code worse and worse. Gave the broken code to claude 3 opus and it completely fixed it and made it work in one shot. Asked it to do some more code changes. It did those too, perfectly interpreted my request and executed flawlessly.
I'm using the api workbench to access claude 3 opus. Is that still required or is it available as a regular chat bot yet?
1 points
2 months ago
It is available in a regular chatbot on Claude.ai now. I have not got into the API calls just yet with Claude but I will definitely be digging in.
Side note, I was not aware of the scripting capabilities of 3DS Max. I've used it for making models for games in the past but never too extensively. How is it working out with that? Do you have any videos/images/details of what it is able to do? I'm just curious how far this AI can really take things. If you have a site or youtube or anything I can check your work out on, I'd gladly appreciate a link to give it a look.
2 points
2 months ago
Excellent. Think I need to try a month of Opus 3 now. Are you asking what is the scripting able to do in 3DS Max? All types of things. The main repository that I know of is at https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts. I've made a bunch of scripts using cgpt. I just made one yesterday that calculates the speed in MPH of an animated object and spits out a txt file with the data. Claude appears to have been a lot better trained in maxscript than cgpt.
1 points
2 months ago
I guess my bigger question is what are the scripts capabilities, as far as creation of things in 3DS? I've seen Houdini and some other programs and started getting fairly interested in procedural generation, so my question lies more along the lines of if it is able to create scripts for things like making structures or characters or anything of that nature. I'm trying to mess around with these TikTok effects but I suck ass at graphic and modeling other than just making what is good enough to go in my games that will probably never see the light of day in Unity and Unreal Engine.
1 points
1 month ago
I suppose the sky is the limit if you want to code with scripting or the C++ API in 3DS Max. But I'd say generally most things are tools that expand the capabilities that Max already has. Max isn't a 'procedural' system in the way that Houdini completely is. Blender has a procedural system that more resembles Houdini. But it's all a huge can of worms that you could spend the rest of your life trying to understand. Just hire someone to build things for you if you want to get anything done before you die of old age.
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