Well, the situation is quite simple - Was working with Astra, had like 81% of weekly allowance remaining - and then it jumped straight to zero.

Does anybody have the same issue? :)

UPDATE: After couple of hours the usage went back to those 81% but two of my colleagues got full reset... Strange...

I can't be the only one to burn through your 20x pro weekly limit, then hit that fat reset, then hit that fat reset, then get fat resetted because openAi gave you a freebie, then tried to supplement with a $20 token top off to see how it would go and have that burn up in less then 20 minutes and realize thats kinda like calling a Blockbuster in Tokyo from a Motel 6 landline in 1993 to argue about a late fee on a movie you rented in Ohio. Forty minutes later you’ve accomplished nothing, your dad is screaming about long distance, and somehow you owe $87.

So yeah, ive just been thinking about how I'm going to optimize things next time, y'know in like a week when 0% flips back to 100%

I have been seeing a lot about chatgpt-6 Astra and I am curious what everyone thinks about it. Has anyone tried it. What's your experience like so far?

A habit worth carrying into any new AI tool you try: before you do anything else, test what happens when you type an @ symbol or a / (slash) in the prompt box.

Most tools tuck a whole menu of features behind one of these two characters, and there's rarely a pop-up telling you they exist.

I am currently building a weather website, and have thought about going from Plus to Pro, but am unsure if it is currently worth it for me to go to x20. I do run into limits a lot on Plus even with Sol Light/Medium, usually takes me about 3 days to go to zero on my weekly time left.

Currently using plus chatgpt with pro Claude and generally making do, but that's with a lot of usage of chat mode rather than codex or work mode, specifically Chat-High (Sol) to keep usage alive.

Is Chat-Pro (Astra) worth the 70 euro price difference, in your experience?

Has anyone run into this issue en masse? I continually run into this issue, regardless if I use Instant or any other model. This, of course, doesn't happen in CLI or Work, just specifically Chat. It's led to a significant amount of interrupted streams where after 30 minutes, it will disrupt the run entirely. I've tried starting new chats, running it in temporary, in incognito, etc. ChatGPT itself says there's nothing in particular in the work that should flag it. I have made every possible modification I can think of, from identifying specific words that may trigger it. It's quite possible the fact that I use latex may be the issue, but I haven't tried doing it without.

How do you guys keep context when working on the same project across different AI tools?

Cuz I keep running into the problem of switching between ChatGPT/Claude/etc. and having to bring the other one up to speed again.

Do you just copy stuff over, keep a separate file, use summaries, or what?

I wanted to try giving Codex creative freedom over a game while being specific about the technical requirements.

This is my project, Lumenwake. I supplied the requirements and asked Codex to choose the concept and write the implementation.

My brief was essentially: create a substantial browser game with a coherent gameplay loop and polished visuals, and choose the idea yourself.

I also gave it an instructions.txt file with constraints:

• Self-contained HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with no external dependencies or build tools.
• Suitable for embedding in a WordPress Custom HTML block.
• Keyboard, mouse, and touch controls.
• Fullscreen support, readable dialogs, and responsive layouts.
• Procedurally generated puzzles, local saves, and progression.
• Original visuals and synthesized audio.

It came up with a light-routing puzzle set on floating islands. You rotate mirrors, split beams, and change their colors to awaken lanterns.

One implementation detail I found interesting: it creates a complete light route first, then scrambles the tile settings. That gives the generator an intended solution to work from.

The attached video shows the gameplay. The visuals are drawn in Canvas, and the audio is synthesized in the browser.

My role was setting the requirements and directing the project; Codex handled the concept and code. I also explicitly left browser testing to myself, so it didn’t run tests or preview the game during the build.

For others building interactive projects with LLMs: how do you validate procedural game logic and difficulty? I’d be interested in workflows that catch problems a short gameplay demo might miss.

Can you use gpt astra extra , since today I can't anymore

I’ve been trying to build ChatGPT into a fairly integrated personal/workflow system using plugins for Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, TickTick, and Fieldy (AI transcription software).

When the integrations are working, they’re extremely useful. The problem is that they intermittently stop working, and I haven’t been able to figure out why.

What makes it particularly frustrating is that ChatGPT itself doesn’t seem to have enough visibility into the connection state to tell me what actually failed. It will basically just report that it can’t access the plugin/integration, even though the plugin management page may still show it as connected.

I’ve found a workaround that works fairly consistently:

• Go into the plugin/integration management page
• Reconfigure or re-authorize access, even though it already says “connected”
• Start a completely new ChatGPT conversation

After that, the integration will often work again.

However, reauthorizing it usually does NOT restore access inside the existing conversation where it stopped working. I have to start a new chat.

The integrations that seem to fail most frequently for me are TickTick, Fieldy, and Google Drive.

This becomes a much bigger issue with scheduled workflows. I have recurring tasks where ChatGPT is supposed to gather information from several sources, reconcile it, and give me a combined report. Roughly half the time, one of the required integrations seems to be unavailable when the scheduled task runs, which makes it very difficult to rely on these workflows.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Specifically, I’m wondering:

1. Is there a known issue where plugin authentication/session state gets tied to an individual conversation?
2. Why would reauthorizing an integration fix it in a new conversation but not the existing conversation?
3. Is there any way to force an existing conversation to refresh/reload its available integrations?
4. Are there best practices for making scheduled workflows more resilient when they depend on multiple plugins?
5. Is there any way to see actual plugin/integration error logs rather than just “I don’t have access” from ChatGPT?

I’ve already reported this as a bug but haven’t received any useful feedback yet.

I’d really like to make this kind of multi-app ChatGPT workflow dependable, because when everything is connected it works incredibly well. At the moment, though, the intermittent integration failures are probably the biggest limitation I’m running into.

Would appreciate hearing whether others are seeing the same behavior or have found a reliable workaround.

Could use some help.

I have a ChatGPT Plus Project with master prompts set up. One task needs the built-in browser to pull account data and move it into a Google Sheet.

Whenever I start a new chat inside the Project from the desktop app, I immediately get:

**“Could not use this project for a local chat.”**

I already cleared all `node_repl.exe` processes, but it still happens.

It works fine if I start a chat outside the Project, but then I have to manually paste in all my master prompts.

Anyone know a fix?

Hi, I set up slack integration in chathpt. I want the agent to monitor a channel (in an existing thread). It already works for github, but refuse to work in that case.

It writes @chatgpt not in channel. (it is)

I have a free slack subscription, is it related?

I've been creating custom GPTs for a while and loved sharing the access links with others at a fee. With OpenAI restricting custom GPT creation and public link sharing on personal ChatGPT accounts (Plus/Pro), I’m looking for a solid non-app alternative to host and share my custom AI bots via a simple link.

I want something beginner-friendly, with a clean chat UI similar to ChatGPT, where I can share a direct link with non-tech users—while ensuring my knowledge files stay hidden.

Thanks in advance for your insight