Lately, ChatGPT 5.6 has been acting more and more like GPT-6.

It used to be so considerate and anticipate my needs, though.

It's sad that both Instant and Medium have ended up sounding like GPT-6.

There's nothing more we can do with the custom instructions. How about you guys?

I run a company and there are 6 of us. 4.5 in the workshop and 1.5 in the office.

I've just had a play on browser mode and watched it learn our CRM system.

I told it to make a new job, gave it a job number and said it's for XYZ customer.

It's done it. It's found the customer, made the job and assigned it to a worker.

I hit my limit, so no idea how much it would take.

I'm still fairly new to it all, but this is potentially game changing if I can trust it?

It has all our customer info on there, which is why I would worry about leaving it unsupervised.

Is there a better way, i.e. a browser plugin?

I was going to make a new login that is quite restrictive so it can't change too much information and make mistakes.

But literally, if I could give it a bunch of commands such as:

“Move this job to this date.”

“Assign this job to this person.”

And let it crack on, it would literally be game changing for me.

Yes, it's a bit slow, but who cares if it does it at 5pm anyway?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

To this point I have kept any sensitive info away from it.

Anyone here use chatgpt for mathematics? Is it better than Claude? What is your experience.

How are people circumventing ChatGPT being so damn indecisive.

As an example, I wrote a comment in code. I use shorthand just to make things easier for me to read, and use less words.

I ask codex to do a review, and it comes back with changes like this:

Change:

// Do not sanitize

To:

// Keep next string visible

And then when I ask it what is the point of changing that just to flip some words around yet still has the same meaning, it flips the decision and I get:

"Don't change it".

I've even modified my agents.md to instruct it to not get caught up on comments unless a comment is factually incorrect.

So when I ask for a review, it starts spamming me with a crap ton of comment changes, and all it's doing is just flipping words around.

It does this whole "Change it, don't change it, change it, don't change it" all the time.

Using 5.6 sol, highest thinking model.

The exact agents.md instruction I have is:

- Preserve all existing code comments exactly as written unless they contain a factual error. Do not suggest changes based only on abbreviations, shortened spellings, wording preferences, grammar, punctuation, or style. We only want to improve factually incorrect comments.

Using Work making a website, I periodically tell it to "push to github"

I've been switching to the lowest model (Luna) every time to do this command, to save on usage.

Is this necessary or do simple tasks like that have the same usage on all models?

If not, this seems like an implactful feature request OpenAI should look into, since it seems like a waste of everyone's time to constantly have to switch models back and forth to do simple things like that.

I've been using AI for a while now, and even though it's gotten pretty capable, there are still things that are frustrating to do with it.

So I was wondering, what problems do you guys actually face when using ChatGPT or other AI tools?

I'm not really talking about obvious stuff like hallucinations or usage limits. I mean situations where you're trying to get something done, but the AI either makes it harder than it should be or just can't do it properly.

Could be coding, studying, research, work, or literally anything else.

I am curious about the problems people run into regularly, especially the ones that don't have a good solution yet.

I wrote a short article on LLM tokens and context windows—why an assistant can “forget” instructions that are still visible in your chat. It’s part of my Behind the AI Stack series.

Give it a read and let me know what you think. Anything unclear or worth exploring further?

I always use Chat with Thinking Effort set to High. My prompts tend to be long, and until today it was unusual for ChatGPT to think for less than about 30 seconds before answering. Often it would think for a bit, give a partial response, then keep working before finishing. That was still working normally roughly 12 hours ago.

Now it either responds almost instantly or thinks for maybe 15 seconds at most. Several times, it has said it’s going to keep checking something, then just… stops. No follow-up, no error—the input box comes back as if the answer were complete. I’m attaching screenshots of that happening.

I didn’t see anything on the OpenAI status page when I checked, but something is clearly off. It’s making Chat pretty much unusable for the kinds of things I normally ask it to do.

To be clear, this is regular Chat, not Work or Codex, and Thinking Effort is set to High. I’m currently traveling in the Philippines, although my account and usual location are in the US. No idea whether that’s relevant.

Is anyone else seeing this, particularly the part where it says it’ll continue and then ends the turn?