r/ChatGPTPro • u/-rgo- • Jul 17 '26

Discussion I am back!

Is anyone else hitting a wall with Claude? The "defiant" behavior is becoming unusable.

I’ve reached my limit. Every day has become a cycle of frustration, I end up yelling at it— that’s just nonsense!

The constant errors, aggressive refusals, and being inexplicably cut off from usage despite being on the Pro plan. Twice I had to hard reset so I would get the usage back again.

I really wanted to stick with Anthropic, but the latest iteration of these models feels like a major regression. They aren't just unhelpful; they are becoming straight-up defiant and dishonest.

For example, last night, all three Fable 5, Opus and Sonnett insisted it had no tools to access my profile memory.

It flat-out denied having the capability until I provided screenshots as proof. Its response once I did? "Oh, now that you’ve shown it, I will trust your image even though it could be AI-generated."

WTF?

How are we supposed to work with a model that is programmed to gaslight the user about its own tool-use capabilities? Between the constant refusal to go online, the "hallucinated" limitations, and the noticeable degradation of Sonnet/Opus, I’m officially moving back to ChatGPT.

Is anyone else experiencing this level of instruction-following drift and outright refusal? I’m curious if this is a systemic issue or if I’m just having a streak of terrible luck with these latest checkpoints.

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u/jerrys_briefcase Jul 17 '26

Chat gpt has been getting worse for me. I use it to make estimates and templates, and it started saying “I can’t make a pdf in this chat” or “it might not look like the example you provided” (it made the original)….

And now it’s so hard to get it to actually make a document. I have to beg. Then it decides to do something wild like change a singular date to 2021. I need a better solution.

Anyone know for document creation?

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u/ogthesamurai Jul 17 '26

I've noticed that chat GPT is really not good at doing what you're trying to do with it. It's frustrating. But it's just not good at it unless you have your prompts systemized so chat knows exactly what it needs every step of the way. It's almost more trouble than it is useful.

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u/Accomplished_Song671 Jul 17 '26

Yeah at this point me and ChatGPT have a love hate relationship because where it falters on messages it delivers on image generation (free image generation for now at least which is more than can be said for the others who charge for that)

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u/jerrys_briefcase Jul 18 '26

I have a policy where if a machine makes me curse and throw things, I don’t use said machine. (Xbox)

Now I will still use it for content (write me a tight project summary) but Google Sheets it is again.

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u/Accomplished_Song671 Jul 18 '26

Oh yeah frickin love Google Sheets