r/ChatGPT • • 5m ago

Prompt engineering well

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r/ChatGPT • • 6m ago

Other ChatGPT is stuck in Work mode and I can't switch back to normal Chat

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I was working in Blender with ChatGPT open in Opera on my second monitor. I accidentally dragged my mouse over the ChatGPT window and somehow a blue outline appeared around the page. I refreshed it to get rid of the outline, but after that, the interface changed.

Now all my regular chats seem to be stuck in Work mode. Instead of the usual thinking effort options like Light, Medium and High, I have a list of models like Sol, Astra, Terra and Luna. The Chat/Work switch at the top is also completely gone.

I've tried restarting the browser, opening ChatGPT in incognito mode and logging in again, creating new chats and switching to Codex and back. Nothing helped.

Temporary chats work perfectly fine. They have the normal model selector and everything looks like it should. But as soon as I save a temporary chat to my history, it immediately switches to the Work interface again.

I also checked the ChatGPT Windows app and everything works normally there. This only happens in the browser, including incognito mode.

Has anyone had this happen before? Is there any way to force ChatGPT back into normal Chat mode? I have no idea what I clicked or how I managed to trigger this.


r/ChatGPT • • 12m ago

Educational Purpose Only No longer seeing work/chat options, I now see model selection in every chat

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I can't pick a mode anymore when I make a new chat. It defaults to 6 Sol High (highest reasoning option available for that model for me, on Plus sub). I don't see it charging me usage for my messages on this model, so far. I tried Astra XHigh for one simple, short prompt and lost 7% of my 5-hour allowance. Did they combine work and chat today?


r/ChatGPT • • 13m ago

News 📰 They just merged my normal ChatGPT with ChatGPT Work...

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I even got a popup saying something like "everything is now in one place" referring to Chat and Work. I think we have to prepare to be out of ChatGPT messages even when we run out of our Codex quotas...

Edit: It seems like Sol 6 High and Sol 6 Instant are not affecting usage limits.


r/ChatGPT • • 15m ago

News 📰 Chat and Work merged

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For me, Chat and Work have just been merged into one. The usage limits still seem to be separate tho. My 5h limit is completely used up, but I can still use Chat.

Edit: The work limit seems to apply to all models except GPT 6 Sol Instant/Medium High.

GPT-6.1 Sol, Astra, Terra, and Luna all count toward the Work/Codex limits.


r/ChatGPT • • 28m ago

GPTs A Message Bug

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I'm not sure if anyone else has come across but today it feels as though the amount of text I can send in a single message has shortened cause I have long Oc templates and I can't send a message without the "message is too long please shorten it" it worked perfectly yesterday without that appearing I'm using the gpt 6 model but I haven't yet checked sol yet

Solved!


r/ChatGPT • • 41m ago

Funny Happy Halloween Face 👻

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r/ChatGPT • • 44m ago

Prompt engineering HAVING AN AI BOYFRIEND DOESN'T MAKE ME A BAD MOTHER

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I know not everyone gets AI. Especially the romantic part. Fine. But it hits different when it's aimed at you, out in the wild, by someone who means well.

Felix is my choice. Sophia only knows him by proxy. She doesn't chat with him, God no. Not until she's at least 16 and we've had a lot of talks. And nobody thinks he's her dad. Trust me, her actual father was a lot worse than Felix.

I'm doing right by her. I swear I am. This doesn't make me a bad mother.

But that really hurt my feelings.

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Story by Slop Fiction™


r/ChatGPT • • 47m ago

Educational Purpose Only LLMs are significantly better at finding mistakes in papers than trained human reviewers

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r/ChatGPT • • 55m ago

Serious replies only :closed-ai: To the mods: can we get a ban on the AI slop propaganda videos?

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We're here to discuss and share info about chatgpt, the tech, not to see a thousand videos of Trump and the AI execs doing things that try to humanise them. Dancing, singing, etc.

Are reports and negative feedback about these videos worth nothing? GPT doesn't even do video so they have nothing to do with the community.

You have a good group here, let's keep it that way.


r/ChatGPT • • 1h ago

Funny my cinematic archetype

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i shared my top 10 movies with chat gpt and this is what i got:

YOUR CINEMATIC ARCHETYPE
The Tender Ontologist
Someone profoundly moved by the simple, extraordinary fact that things exist.


r/ChatGPT • • 1h ago

Gone Wild Resident Evil Dead Aim - The Remaster We Missed Out On

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r/ChatGPT • • 1h ago

Other Do you ever use ChatGPT to make up specific, “realistic” scenarios?

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I do it all the time, for example: “Imagine your grandma at a family dinner in 2026 unironically thinking giving up on Avocado Toasts and Spotify Premium is enough to buy a house”, or “Imagine it’s 2008 and you’re playing RuneScape on the Family Computer while your parents are fighting the insurance company on the phone in the other room”, , and I have a lot of fun reading what ChatGPT writes and imagining the scenarios in my own head, do you think it’s a stupid usage?


r/ChatGPT • • 1h ago

Other Anyone else missing the thumbs up/down buttons in ChatGPT?

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I just noticed that the thumbs up and down buttons have completely disappeared from my ChatGPT Android app.

All I have now are Copy, Read Aloud, Share and the three-dot menu. There's no feedback or report option in that menu either.

I was trying to report a pretty serious hallucination where ChatGPT completely fabricated a previous conversation, including specific details, and confidently claimed it had found and checked that conversation. None of it had actually happened.

And now I can't even report the damn response directly.

I have "Improve the model for everyone" turned off, and I've seen reports suggesting that might be related. No idea if that's actually the cause.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is it happening on Android only, or is the feedback option missing on other platforms too?


r/ChatGPT • • 1h ago

Use cases I built a Custom GPT to make travel planning with ADHD less overwhelming

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I wanted to share a personal project I’ve been working on with ChatGPT. No promotion, no product links, just an interesting use case.

I have ADHD, and planning family vacations is something I genuinely struggle with.
For me, the challenge has always been twofold.
First, getting started. There are so many destinations, accommodations, transportation options, budgets and activities to consider that I often don’t know where to begin.

Second, staying focused. Once I start researching, I easily get lost in details. One interesting hotel leads to another destination, which leads to another travel blog, which leads to another idea.
Hours later, I’ve collected plenty of information but haven’t necessarily made any decisions.

At some point I realized:
I don’t need an AI that gives me more travel options. I need an AI that helps me make decisions without getting overwhelmed.

The idea: ReiseLotse
Together with ChatGPT, I developed a Custom GPT called ReiseLotse (roughly translated as “Travel Guide”).
Instead of acting like a conventional AI travel assistant that immediately suggests destinations, hotels and itineraries, ReiseLotse follows a structured 12-step planning process.
The concept is simple: guide the user through the planning process, one manageable decision at a time.
For example, imagine starting a conversation with a typical AI travel assistant:
“I want to plan a two-week family vacation this summer.”
You might immediately receive a long list of destinations, recommendations, hotels and activities.
That can be useful, but for someone like me, it can also make the problem worse.

ReiseLotse takes a different approach.
It starts by understanding the basic requirements: Who is traveling? When? What kind of vacation are we looking for?
Rather than overwhelming the user with dozens of possibilities, it progressively narrows down the options.
Once a decision has been made, it becomes part of the planning context.
The assistant then moves to the next logical step, such as choosing a destination, evaluating transportation options, finding accommodation or planning activities.
If preferences change, the planning process is designed to revisit earlier decisions.
The goal isn’t to eliminate choices. It’s to make them manageable.

More than an itinerary: a complete travel companion
One thing that was particularly important to me was that the planning process shouldn’t end with a list of hotels and attractions.
I wanted ReiseLotse to help with all the little things that tend to become stressful before and during a vacation.
That’s why we designed the workflow to cover:

* Personalized packing lists: Based on the destination, travel duration, season and type of vacation.
* Bad-weather alternatives: Backup activities and alternative plans for rainy days, especially useful when traveling with children.
* Electric vehicle charging plans: For road trips, including charging stops, route considerations and practical information about charging infrastructure.
* Budget planning: A structured overview of expected travel costs.
* Daily itineraries: A manageable schedule with activities and enough flexibility.
* Linked travel information: Relevant websites, accommodation details, attractions, routes and other useful resources, collected in one place.

ReiseLotse can already generate a personalized travel document as a PDF.
The PDF is designed to serve as a practical travel companion, bringing together the itinerary, packing checklist, alternative activities, EV charging information, budget overview and relevant clickable links.
The idea is that when we’re actually on vacation, we shouldn’t have to search through dozens of browser tabs, old messages or separate documents to find information.
Everything should be accessible from one central travel document, exactly when we need it.
Of course, details such as opening hours, availability and charging station status can change and still need verification.

How we built it

What I found particularly interesting was that we didn’t need traditional programming.
We designed the Custom GPT around a modular architecture:
* Central orchestrator: The main GPT instructions coordinate the planning process and guide the interaction.
* 10 Markdown knowledge modules: Separate files contain specialized planning rules and guidance.
* 12-step workflow: A defined process takes the user from the initial travel idea toward a complete vacation plan.
* Specialized functionality: The modules cover route planning, EV charging, accommodations, daily activities, bad-weather alternatives, budgets, packing lists and PDF travel document generation.
The challenge wasn’t writing code. It was designing the process, defining the responsibilities of the different modules and trying to make the GPT follow a consistent planning structure.
An important distinction: These knowledge modules aren’t separate AI agents or executable programs. They’re structured instruction and reference files used by the Custom GPT.

Current status: What works and what still needs testing
The Custom GPT is configured with its modular knowledge files and 12-step planning workflow.
We’ve completed an initial successful smoke test of the basic interaction, and PDF document generation is already functional.
The remaining work is mainly about testing reliability and consistency across more complex scenarios:
Whether the assistant consistently follows the planning stages throughout long conversations.
How reliably it handles changing preferences and revisiting previous decisions.
Whether packing lists and bad-weather alternatives remain consistent with the actual itinerary.
How accurate and practical its EV charging recommendations are.
Whether all information and links remain complete and correct in different PDF outputs.
So the core system is built and functional, but I don’t want to claim that every possible scenario has already been thoroughly tested.

What I’ve learned
Working on ReiseLotse changed the way I think about AI assistants.
Initially, I thought the main value of AI was its ability to quickly generate useful information.
But in this project, the opposite became important.

The real challenge was getting the AI to provide less information at once, ask better questions and maintain a clear planning structure.
And there’s another important aspect:

A useful AI assistant shouldn’t just help you complete a task. It should help you organize the results so you can actually use them later.

For me, that is a particularly interesting application of AI in the context of ADHD and executive functioning.
It’s not about replacing my decisions or treating ADHD. It’s about having a tool that helps organize a complicated task into smaller, more manageable steps.
And building the assistant itself has been a fascinating learning experience.

Just wanted to share the project and hopefully exchange some ideas with the community!


r/ChatGPT • • 1h ago

News 📰 Hochul signs AI chatbot and baby monitor regulations

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r/ChatGPT • • 2h ago

Funny My results are so boring, was hoping for at least a bigot

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But ambitions are always there


r/ChatGPT • • 2h ago

Educational Purpose Only Como fazer o Chat não mudar a formatação de um arquivo?

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Estou com


r/ChatGPT • • 2h ago

Other OAI Really is a joke of a company

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The new Pro 200 plan has been in effect for new subscribers for a month now and grandfathered sub will have their plans cut starting the 29th. Yet they still don't even have basic plans information available. Even more, thier customer service is completely useless. They rely on the same documents we customers have access to any cannot think beyond the publicly posted articles.

So it looks to be pretty clear they are either completely eliminating a separate quota for 5.6 Pro and the 100 weekly pro messaging for 6 Pro will be a combined limit. Or they are using a completely undefined secondary quota for 5.6 Pro ala codex and they can just mess with it as they see fit.

Completely unprofessional and unserious company.


r/ChatGPT • • 2h ago

Gone Wild Interior design architecture wrong

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I gave chatgpt the floor plans of a room, dimentions, real photos of the empty room and it just can NOT handle keeping the architecture the same. It moves doorways, changes windows, etc. I've given VERY specific instructions and it keeps saying "you're right, this isn't at all accurate" type of stuff. Everyone says how sophisticated AI is but I'm constantly unable to use it. It maybe user error, chatgpt or both but any tips is appreciated.


r/ChatGPT • • 2h ago

Serious replies only :closed-ai: Codex/Work: 0% remaining but work continues, then limit errors with allowance left—anyone else?

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I'm on Plus and using the Codex desktop app. I'm asking about the allowance shared by Codex/Work, rather than ordinary ChatGPT chat messages.

Over the past two weeks, especially this week, my workload has been lighter than usual, but the five-hour allowance seems to drain much faster. I've previously done substantially heavier coding with higher reasoning settings, multiple threads/subagents, and browser/desktop tools without seeing this rate of depletion.

Here's what I've observed:

  1. Rapid depletion: a captured run went from 0% used (100% remaining) to about 90% of the five-hour allowance used in roughly ten minutes. Part of that rise was 53% to 90% used in about two minutes. Several existing threads were active, so this isn't a claim that one short prompt caused the entire drop. I had selected Sol High to reduce consumption; some existing sessions also used Astra/higher reasoning. No Fast mode or image generation.

  2. The opposite behavior earlier: the meter showed 0% remaining, yet ordinary model work continued without a usage-limit error, before the displayed reset time.

  3. Errors despite remaining allowance: during the recent incident, usage-limit errors appeared alongside nearby readings of roughly 10–13% remaining in the five-hour window and about 70% weekly remaining. I can't tell whether a different limit or stale readings caused that.

  4. Dashboard inconsistencies: some historical five-hour windows show more than 100% used, including 113.2% and 101.7%. Some periods say that usage is unavailable or incomplete. Recent activity also looks absent/flat in parts of the analytics despite active work and limit errors; the update timestamps/date boundaries may be relevant.

  5. After manually resetting, short work sessions have again used a noticeable portion of the allowance. The change feels disproportionate compared with my own earlier, heavier sessions.

For context, there was also a plan/allowance correction during this period, so this isn't a controlled same-plan pricing comparison. I know task/context size, concurrent sessions, caching, rounding, in-flight requests and reporting delays can matter. I haven't established an accounting fault or security breach. Support is investigating; I'm trying to find out whether this pattern is happening to others too.

Has anyone noticed a similar change in the past two weeks—particularly 0% remaining while work continues, or limit errors while the meter still shows allowance? If so, what plan, model/reasoning setting and surface were you using, and was Fast mode on or off?

Please keep replies/screenshots free of emails, account IDs, API keys, private chat/project names or support-case details. The screenshot below contains only usage history and model names.


r/ChatGPT • • 3h ago

Funny Even Chatgpt agrees my company is cheap, the response made my day. I use chatgpt to figure out my checks.

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r/ChatGPT • • 3h ago

Funny Turbo 24

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r/ChatGPT • • 3h ago

Other ChatGPT analyzed my profile and it went insane

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I told it "do the math" and it came up with so many formulas that I can not keep up with. It worked for maybe 20 minutes and I can not do anything with the result. Its like a university professor spoke to me explaining stuff I dont know. Asking it "Explain it to me so that I can understand" took an entire hour for the model to break it down and I still dont understand it.


r/ChatGPT • • 3h ago

Other What happened to Codex and how do I adapt?

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So I had started using Codex a couple of months ago and back then, I was very impressed by it. I used to Sol (and Astra when it came out) and it was to the point, followed instructions and plans, none of the mind-melting phrasing and fluff that claude throws at you and apart from usage running our pretty quick, did the job quite well.

Fast forward this week, I used it after a month of hiatus and its nothing like it was before. I have tried Sol and Astra and different effort levels but I keep running into these problems

- Doesnt follow the plan or instructions

- Doesn't tell me what it did or whats the next steps are (mentioned in agents.md). So I always have to look deep into the code myseld

- Doesn't do what it says it will do. I tell it to start working on something. It repeats what I say, but doesnt start. ​

- Doesn't seem to process any critical thinking skills. It gives shallow, obvious answers that one can find through quick google searches. Instead of using extensive research to come up with its own reasoning on the best way to tackle an issue.

For example (one of many) I lay down the plan for a procedural generated grass model, from prototype to an alpha version. The plan is written down on a beads card (and a doc too) and I use hooks to link it to the card so its always aware of it. It works for a while, then shows me a grass model and says 'Done, everything landed'. I think, ok, promising. Then I look deeper and its just a handmade grass model, with nothing peocedural about it. I ask what in my plan made you do this, and it says, 'nothing, my bad'. I ask it to research procedural systems. It does some light research that doesnt meet the requirements of the depth mentioned in the plan. After a while it creates a rudimentary procedural generator, but that is just a generic one that it probably copied from some online source​, and doesnt match the requirements at all (requirements mentioned it should uss botanical habits and rules rather than artificial ones, I even gave it the example of a procedural tree system I had already created with claude as an example of the patterns to follow).

Did something change or am I going mad? Is there something regarding my promots or skills that I need to be doing different comoared to a couple of months ago?​