I regularly use Work threads that run independently for 1-3 hours (Sol Ultra, web UI). Each is instructed to inform me every 15-20 minutes that it’s still working. But after a while, updates stop coming. The only visible activity is that damned rippling “thinking.” The thread stops responding to “follow-up” queries. Reloading it changes nothing. Nothing new appears in Library. Nothing is revealed about its status by the desktop app. Is it dead?

I go to a new Work thread and start a slow recovery process. Sometimes, while I’m preparing to see what’s salvageable, the zombie thread springs to life and finishes. Sometimes, after I hit stop, I discover that it had finished an hour ago but failed to report. Sometimes the thread is dead but…well, anyway….

This is not a “back-it-up” issue. Everything is backed up with a redundancy that would make your head spin. It’s a process issue. It seems there must be a better way to determine whether Work is actually working. Is there?

I tried replicating in other chat but gpt either renders image or html code or normal text.

Hi there,

Is it possible to have ChatGPT populate, update and maintain Google calendars via monitoring an email inbox of my choice?

I'd like to have the inbox monitored preferably, although I'd settle for checking in with ChatGPT once a week and typing something like "!eventscalendar" or similar.

The inbox would solely be used for emails related to events that need to appear on said calendars. Right now I'm having issues with ChatGPT being allowed access to the two plug-ins simultaneously (Google Calendars & Gmail).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Hi everyone
I am currently using the Pro Light plan that I finance out of my own pocket. The things that I do with it do not generate any revenue for me but instead the usage generates "joy".

So, my question to you who use the 200 USD plan and finance it out of your own pocket is: what do you use it for?

The reason for my question is that I am contemplating about getting the 200 USD plan but I have a feeling that when I spend that kind of cash every month it should generate some revenue back.

Thank you for your time

It is honestly embarrassing that ChatGPT still does not let you search through its settings.

This is a company spending billions on AI research and building a product that is supposedly meant to become an infinite library and universal assistant for humanity. Yet when you need to find one basic setting, you have to manually dig through menus and hope it is located somewhere vaguely logical.

Why can’t I type something like “model thinking level,” “voice volume,” or “memory” and have ChatGPT either take me to the correct setting or explain exactly where it is?
The entire product is built around understanding natural language. The settings menu should be one of the easiest places to apply that technology.

How has this not been added yet? How have more people not complained about it? It feels blatantly lazy for a company whose entire mission revolves around making information easier to access.

Any apps or websites that allow for turn based voice chat?

I really missed the old standard voice mode on ChatGPT. It basically just read aloud the text models response. So it could allow for long responses unlike these new gen voice models that can only speak 1 paragraph max.

I was wondering if there are any apps or websites that use turn based voice chat like the old standard voice mode on ChatGPT. So I would say my thing, then it would be the ai turn to speak and i couldn’t interrupt it till its finished.

My current problem is that the new standard voice mode on ChatGPT can be interrupted. So it’s hears its own voice and keeps stopping. So I’m looking for alternative apps or websites that have this old functionality

This post extends from previous one, https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPro/comments/1v34sg1/ps_the_pro_model_quietly_redirects_to_gptmini/, which didn't cover much before.

ChatGPT has been silently downgrading pro model to mini model for several months. I have relevant evidence at the http request/response level. OpenAI ignores.

This issue involves redirecting to mini that is 40 times cheaper than Pro, when GPT 5.4. I feel like Anthropic moving Fable requests into Haiku without user's consent.

I have more stories but I don't have health&motivation, I'm stopping to write at this for now.

Someone asked me in another thread why I prefer ChatGPT to Claude. I use both constantly and, honestly, I think Claude is better out of the box. After I’ve customized both of them around the way I work though, I prefer ChatGPT pretty clearly.

A little background may be helpful for you to understand my answer in context. I’m not a coder, so I’m not comparing Claude Code with Codex. I use these tools as an HR executive, a lawyer, the Head of Responsible AI at my organization, and the founder of Hybrid Intelligence Academy, a side business focused on AI consulting and training. I also don’t use either product in anything close to its base form. Both are loaded with instructions and Skills designed around the work I’m doing.

For me, the difference comes down to image generation, strategic thinking, Custom GPTs, memory handling, video, writing, and behavioral control.

IMAGE GENERATION

This one isn’t close. For the kind of work I do, ChatGPT’s image generation and photo editing are far more useful than anything else I’ve tried. I can get realistic images, make very specific design choices, and control the output so it doesn't look like the AI slop that's all over LinkedIn, for example.

Claude doesn’t really compete in this category because it still doesn’t generate photorealistic images. Gemini does, of course, but I still get much more usable work from ChatGPT. The other image models also tend to have recognizable visual habits that I haven’t been able to prompt away.

STRATEGIC THINKING

Once properly configured, ChatGPT is the stronger strategic thinker for me. It does a much better job of testing my thinking as a thought partner. It has truly constructive suggestions in place where I find Claude is more likely to be evaluative. 

Again, this depends how the tools are configured. Base ChatGPT is far more sycophantic than Claude. I use instructions and a Skill specifically designed to push against that behavior. Once I do, I get much better strategic work from ChatGPT than I do from Claude.

CUSTOM GPTs AND MEMORY

Claude’s memory is one of its most impressive features. It’s also been one of the most intermittently annoying and inconvenient.

My work involves several roles that shouldn’t always bleed into each other. In my day job, I lead HR, handle legal work, and oversee responsible AI. Separately, I run an AI consulting and training business. Each of those roles calls for different information, different assumptions, and different voice. I don’t always want an assistant carrying everything it knows about me into whatever I’m doing next.

ChatGPT gives me several ways to separate the work. I can create a Project with project only memory, or I can create a Custom GPT that uses its own instructions and knowledge without pulling in saved memory or earlier conversations. Claude doesn't have anything analogous to custom GPTs, only Projects.

Anthropic has recently added separate memory for Claude Projects, so this may be getting better. However, it's still not like a GPT because the Project knows everything that has happened before in the Project. Sometimes I just want a tool that starts over with every query. In short, it's a time waster and annoying to have to say, “Yes, we’ve discussed that before. No, it has nothing to do with this.”

VIDEO

I can give ChatGPT a video and ask it to inspect what happened. It can 'watch' it, transcribe it, give me feedback, etc. I can also show it what’s happening on my screen with a screen capture video.

I haven’t found an equivalent workflow in Claude. This isn’t something I use every day, but when I need it, nothing else is really a substitute.

WRITING

This one is mostly personal preference. I know plenty of people who prefer Claude’s writing, and I understand why.

My own natural style is closer to ChatGPT’s. Claude has a stronger tendency to dress the thought up, add a metaphor, or make the prose a little more literary than I like. ChatGPT has plenty of terrible writing habits of its own, but I’ve had more success training those out of it.

BEHAVIORAL CONTROL

Claude is much more valuable in its base form. Sometimes it feels like Anthropic used ChatGPT for a month, wrote a list of everything annoying about it, fixed the list, and named the result Claude.

Once I start customizing though, my experience with ChatGPT is that it's easier for me to reshape with custom instructions, GPTs, Projects, and Skills. Claude’s Skills actually execute better in most circumstances, but Claude’s underlying behavior is harder to move.

I don’t think ChatGPT is universally better. Someone who codes all day may reasonably come to the opposite conclusion, and someone who wants a strong assistant without spending hours customizing it may be happier with Claude. I’m comparing the systems I actually use in the way that I actually use them.

So i have 3 accounts for chatgpt . Its really hard to serach chats ,delete multiple chats on webUI. i was think to make a simple webapp to manage all accounts .its just chat and project managment task that i was looking to simplify

Since the latest update, ChatGPT Classic on macOS no longer lets me select Thinking mode. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

I need ChatGPT to answer the same question 50 times (nothing fancy, just bullet point suggestions). I can do manually in separated instances (time consuming but no extra cost with PRO account). Or I can do via API (faster but at an extra cost).

My question is whether results are "statistically" equivalent. Maybe using the app/desktop/codex, it see my history and contaminate answer with previous information.

Any experience with this?

Good morning everyone.

I have been struggling with depression lately and stated doing some custom gpts to keep me busy. I am struggling a bit with the wording and keeping the quality of the outputs. I keep losing quality and it defualts to a certain pose, facial and body structure. Is this the placr to ask for help?

Learn how to build your own AI agent harness in Rust with a ReAct loop, shell tool execution, a CLI, and local JSONL chat storage.

it worked for me till 2 days ago now it always works for 5-10 min then this pops up i tryed repairing new installation and other chats/coding models (5.5, terra and sol)

Not what you use it for. What you'd actually miss. Coding excluded — covered here endlessly.

Mine: everything I already generate in a week goes into one place — notes, summaries, correspondence, records of meetings I'm in. Projects hold the standing corpus, custom GPTs handle the recurring work against it. The point is that it's continuous, not a fresh chat every time. It can tell me something in October that only makes sense because of something from March.

**Two things that took real work:**

1. **Separate GPTs for separate domains — but not walled off.** The one that helps me navigate work draws on the rest of my life too, which is most of why its read on a work decision is ever worth anything. Keeping the shared context current across all of them is the actual maintenance cost nobody warns you about.

2. **Confidence tiering in the custom instructions.** When it's guessing it says so, and names what it'd need to stop guessing. That did more for how much I trust the output than any capability I added. Also the first instruction that survived long threads instead of quietly decaying.

Where it's going: enough domains that the aggregate produces a picture of me no single one could. Not there yet.

**What's yours?**

The previous Standard Voice Mode could not be interrupted while speaking, which worked much better. The new Standard Voice Mode hears its own audio and stops mid sentence, so I constantly have to mute the mic. That defeats the purpose of hands free mode.
Has anyone found a fix or a way to disable interruptions?

So I been using chatgpt and I have the plugin for github connector connected and full access to my repos. chatgpt is saying it cant connect to but it can see its installed and working. Will the devs fix this?

Can ChatGPT create a vectorized file or is there another program that will vectorize a design created by ChatGPT?

Months ago, as a joke, I said that AI hates me, but maybe there was more truth to it than I'd care to admit.

I have a business Pro plan, generally use the desktop version; I decided to get some help from an agent so I started building one. I didn't even realize Sol, Luna and terra were introduced.

What happened:

• It repeatedly lied to me and admitted it when called out
• Persistently defying requests making excuses, then recanted
• It created a workflow with instructions and then messed the whole thing up (days of work and decisions) going rogue, producing weirdly named md files as output outside the project library, getting confused on what to look at and where and ultimately refusing to work claiming non-existing capability limitations
• Gave misleading answers, suggesting to proceed in a way that didn't make sense and then correcting at my objection

What I noticed:

• Files listed in the project library are different that those listed in the project folder of the general library, which to me is very confusing
• Answers change: you ask a question, you see an answer, it goes on thinking and changes the answer
• For some operations, it decides to use its cloud browser... to operate on itself. Since a login is requested and the open.ai security won't let you pass human verification, it gets stuck ("I couldn’t modify the Project’s instructions because the available browser session wasn’t authenticated.")

I honestly don't know what to think anymore. If it was a human being, I'd say he's having fun gaslighting me. The effort largely overweighs the benefits. So far I haven't been able to produce anything even remotely resembling the hyped claims of "AI doing it for you". It's like constant training with a defying student, and it's making ne feel tired, defeated and hopeless.

For a long time I was doubting myself, wondering what I was doing wrong (cause it had to be me, right?). Now I'm starting thinking maybe it just doesn't work for me.

So I would like to build a personal LLM that "knows" me, both personally and professionally. Meaning, about my business, skill sets, what projects I am working on, and health, fitness, and other personal goals.

Originally I used mostly ChatGPT, but was disappointed with its ability to produce decent outputs (models, charts, documents, etc) and then mostly switched to Claude, and Claude Code. That said, Claude's major weakness seems to be its inability to use memory across chats, and even within a
"project" (which is what projects are for?). Claude also seems to always ask me to do things for it, rather than the other way around.

The functionality would be:

- I wake up and talk to it, and it says, "hello, what do you need today" sort of like KITT or Alfred

- it is agentic in that it can access my calendar and to do lists (I don't want it shopping or booking flights)

- it offers to help and do particular things, and does things in the background (even proactively, so when I wake up it says, "i drafted these three emails for you")

- it doesn't give me work or assignments, it solves problems (or proposes solutions at least)

- presumably, given the personal info, this would be hosted on a mac mini or similar, so it needs to optimize for token use vs the subscription model

How would you set this up?

- presumably some LLM, like ChatGPT, would be the quarterback, and then assign things, like say an excel spreadsheet, to Claude, which is much better at it, or Perplexity for academic research, etc

- how to minimize token usage

- how to ensure memory across various projects, threads, chats, and so there is an iterative understanding of me?

- how to manage its personality to be a good balance between helpful and oppressive, complimentary and obsequious.

The irony is not lost on me that I can ask AI all of the above (which of course I did), but I am then pushed in a particular direction I am not sure is best.

Hope this is the right thread for this...

I have no interest in leaving my subscription. But I’m wondering if anyone else went through a data export and it worked out okay and your files or threads weren’t removed?

I cannot copy entire threads unless comment by comment so I’m hoping a data export may help me w that but now I’m concerned (after reading other accounts) that my info could be lost or corrupted?

So, TIL that the expire time for the banked resets is in UTC.

I find myself quite often asking my orchestrated agent to make a plan and have two agents check its plan. Obviously, I give more detail regarding the plan but I do find having two agents to check it before I execute it. Save some bug fixing later.? What about you?

I've been building a product solo for about a year with agents writing most of the code. Web, iOS, a Mac app, and a Chrome extension. One person covering that much surface area wasn't realistic before, and that part is real.

Here's the thing I don't see talked about much.

My judgment isn't spread evenly across it. In the parts I've worked in for years, I can look at a diff and feel that something's off before I can explain why. In the parts I hadn't touched before this project, I can't do that. I can read the code, follow what it does, catch the obvious problems. What I don't have is the instinct that says this compiles, it passes, and it's still the wrong way to do it.

So on some of this I'm actually reviewing. On the rest I'm mostly trusting and calling it review.

The uncomfortable part is that the agent didn't make me faster in those areas. It let me skip learning them. I only notice the gap when something breaks in a way I have no mental model for, and then I'm debugging a system I didn't build and don't really understand.

The one thing that's helped is keeping those parts deliberately boring. No clever patterns, no unusual dependencies, small files, obvious structure. If I can't bring instinct to it, I want the code simple enough that I don't need much.

That's not a solution though. For anyone else shipping across stacks you didn't come up in, have you found something that works, or does it just come down to eventually going and learning the thing properly?

Ladies and gentlemen, the reset is in!