If anyone has a method to do so please let me know, everything I tried makes it completely change up how its writting the code, write it in a different language, or redo the entire thing.
#How to make AI continue where it left off in code
olive swallow
waxen valley
Just write "continue"
olive swallow
Doesnt work when I try it
waxen valley
Strange, that's what I write and it works every time
prime matrix
is this a single, specific conversation?
prime matrix
you could be losing an important piece of context from earlier in the conversation and that is why it's suddenly different
olive swallow
Thats what im thinking
prime matrix
you can try asking for the earliest message from the context
prime matrix
try saying continue from "{copy paste a few lines at the end here}"
this can also happen if you established a context that isn't inherently continuous
making it clearer that you want to continue from the previous response can help
olive swallow
That worked but its coding in a different format
Not consistent with how it was previously coding
bah its fine
waxen valley
Interesting. I've used it mostly for javascript and it's always continued exactly where it left off in the previous response. Maybe it behaves differently with python?
olive swallow
Not consistent with how it was previously coding
No wonder
I didnt even notice its a different language 😆
waxen valley
oh that's even weirder lol
prime matrix
Sometimes it's basically expanding a template structure it's learned before and when it gets cut off, it just has no way of recovering what that template was or how far into it it got
in those cases there is no method of forcing it to just continue but you can solve the issue preemptively by asking for a high level outline of the solution first
and then asking for pieces
rustic tulip
maybe copy the entire response to your question and tell it to continue the code
flint gust
This is a very big issue for developing anything of substance.
ChatGPT sometimes changes programming language in the middle of the conversation without being prompted to do so. It sometimes changes the agreed upon aproach significantly without notifying the user or explaining why. For me it never continues of at the right position when it stopped while writing in code blocks and when asked to redo the code block it tends to do non-sensical stuff more often than not.
If anybody found a way to prompt it so it doesn't do these things, please for the love of god enlighten me!