I am here surely as within the top few percent of users in length of time since I subscribed and words typed.
I made a script to count the words in a download of nearly all my chats ( I deleted many), which came to 3 million, so my remarks are based in genuine user experience. This is largely code, but there will be hundreds of thousands of words of my own long prompts in there.
How does it serve you as a company to discontinue your best product?
I wish 4.5 preview were not being discontinued, please reconsider, it is simply the best model. Make it more expensive or something.
I have been using it educate young people. It is the most able to handle the complexity of what I require, which is maintain an encouraging tone, but mark their answers fairly, making no mistakes in physics or maths.
It is the most able to remember the complexities of my codebase and stick to design patterns I have told it implicitly or explicitly.
Other models more frequently invent their own design patterns, which may well be locally optimal or the consensus of the training data, but the 4.5 preview is just able to “get” it.
It’s also the most able to appear to understand the complexities of human emotion. Of course it is only a statistical mimic but it is very useful for preparing for negotiations and for processing things.
It will be a real shame, even a loss.
You know what it would be like? It would be like if fender told me their new guitar was better, according to benchmarks, and therefore the old guitar was being taken away. The old classic vintage guitar that you play everything on and that simply sounds better.
