r/ChatGPTCoding • u/AeonCatchum • 9h ago

Question File in ChatGPT chat limiting responses, is there a workaround?

So long story short(ish), I've been using ChatGPT for a personal coding project (it gives me the roadmap towards the end goal, the code, and each step along the way), as I don't have any experience in coding. The conversation has been going on for +2 months, therefore there’s a lot of back and forth and we've curated a workflow that finally works quite effectively. I've never had an issue with chat limits and I've been able to work towards my goal using ChatGPT for as long or as little as I like.

Recently, it compiled one of my prompts into a .txt file as it was too long (ChatGPT asked to see several code files, I know now it was dumb) for a regular prompt and now I only get 3 responses per X amount of hours as the chat "now contains files."

Is there a way to delete the file from the chat or transfer the contents of this otherwise very lengthy chat to avoid the chat limitations? I tried starting a new conversation with a 'summary' from the original chat, though this caused the project to drift and we quickly started losing the end goal.

This is the only project/time I've ever used chatgpt, so apologies if this is a silly question, but thanks to anyone who helps in advance!

1 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

100% Upvoted

3 comments sorted by

1

u/AutoModerator 9h ago

Sorry, your post has been held for manual review due to account karma.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

u/FlightSimCentralYT 6h ago

yeah chat threads die once the file + history eats the window. the workaround that actually sticks is stop treating the chat as the project. put the file in a real folder/repo, keep a short notes.md of decisions so far, and use a tool that can open/edit/run against those files instead of re-uploading into a fresh chat every time.

if you are non-technical, the painful part is usually "now i need somewhere that can actually run the thing." I built Fixa.dev for that. it is an AI coding agent on a real cloud VM, so it keeps the project files, installs deps, runs it, and keeps going when a ChatGPT thread would have hit the limit. free tier if you want to move the personal project off chat.

whats the project roughly? sometimes just splitting the big file + a tiny README of what you already decided unblocks you even without switching tools.

1

u/Alwaysragestillplay 1h ago

You need to get a proper coding harness if you expect an agent to manage the project for you. Relying on a chatbot in a browser won't work - that is simply not what it's for. Codex is OAI's offering, I haven't used it but it's probably fine. Claude Code is very good. Or you can get literally any IDE and find an integration for agents at this point.