Q: Are you better than ChatGPT Pro?
Hi, I have chatgpt pro. I am don't have coding knowledge. Very basic general knowledge. However, I have purchased to test a few coding tool on appsumo and ended up refunding them because I found chatgpt gave me better answers even on their free plan. I purchased and refunded BindAI on the same day yesterday because it did a worse job that chatgpt. I have now upgraded to chatgpt pro. How can you convince me you can do a better job than them. I am not developer, and I am giving it simple tasks. If some of them are struggling with that then I wonder if I had coding knowledge and I gave them more complex tasks, can they handle it! How can you persuade you could do better than gpt pro?
Ayush_CodeMate
Dec 20, 2024A: Hi, if you're comparing codemate vs chatgpt pro, I would say its not the right comparison as its a general purpose tool and CodeMate is built entirely for programming. LLMs are good at text but they really suck at code. That's where coding assistants do a better job as we have specifically worked on building the search for code which gives the appropriate context to the LLMs. Hence, even if you try uploading the codebase on ChatGPT and asking questions regarding the same, you'll get a difference in answers as compared to CodeMate even if you use same models at both places due to differ in search happening at both places which gives the context to the LLMs which then generates the code.
ChatGPT Pro will do a good job in generating the first version of the code, but you'll see the difference once you start building on it further as it will lose out the context when codebase increases.
On the other hand CodeMate allows you to build up your personal and organisational knowledge base comprising of multiple large codebases, docs and repos. (with database and additional context coming up in V3) and then generate code, or ask questions keeping your existing KB into reference. Whereas these tools doesnt allow you to integrate multiple codebases and also starts hallucinating when context becomes too large (with large codebases).
We have worked heavily on our search, to make it our USP till date and we are constantly upgrading it by each version upgrade with the V3 having capabilities such as different modes (Eco, Normal and Pro) ie. Eco mode running locally, Normal with thinking capability and Pro being the Agentic mode.
I hope it answers your question. I would say, give it a shot by asking GPT Pro and CodeMate with Knowledge base added and continue with whatever works for your case