ChatGPT users find the tool doesn't complete tasks
20 posts across 2 communities in the last 60 days; 95% from App Store.
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.279) — I have found myself in the situation where ChatGPT proves to be very powerful for creating Excel workbooks for off-line use. The problem is it doesn’t take very long to reach capacity problems on threads and you end up spending more time on the…”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.272) — The biggest issue of working with ChatGPT on projects is it Will claim confidently that I can do a task and then take up two hours of your time proving that it can’t”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.230) — I hate limits so much”
Multiple users express frustration that ChatGPT frequently fails to complete requested tasks, describing it as a waste of time and money.
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“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.279) — I have found myself in the situation where ChatGPT proves to be very powerful for creating Excel workbooks for off-line use. The problem is it doesn’t take very long to reach capacity problems on threads and you end up spending…”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.272) — The biggest issue of working with ChatGPT on projects is it Will claim confidently that I can do a task and then take up two hours of your time proving that it can’t”
“[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.272) — Needs a substantially bigger input window than just 128k tokens.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.272) — I paid for ChatGPT because I needed help with a straightforward but important project: creating a factual, chronological timeline from documents I had already collected. I wasn’t asking AI to conduct an investigation, form opinions, or determine what happened. I simply needed it to review one document at a time, accurately extract dates, times, names, statements, and relevant facts, and create a document I could save. Once each document was completed, the informa”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.267) — I’m extremely disappointed that ChatGPT can’t even do simple tasks”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.267) — I tried to make photos for fun, but it said I hit the limit”
“I have ChatGPT Plus and have been using GPT-5.6 Sol with High thinking effort to develop a R Shiny data visualization app and it's quite complex with a lot of interactive features. I’m fairly new to app development, so my current workflow may not be ideal. For each iteration, I ask ChatGPT to modify the app and give me the updated version as a downloadable ZIP file. I unzip it, test the app locally, report any issues or request new features, and repeat. ( I know I'm doing it in a DUMB wa”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — Useless unless you pay for the upgrade. Google does a better job with zero limits!!!!”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.244) — If I could honestly give zero I would. It can not stay on task or follow instructions or guardrails and has cost me 300+ hrs unnecessarily in 40+days cleaning up it’s unauthorized changes”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — The five-hour usage limit makes ChatGPT Plus almost unusable for serious work. A single coding or research task can consume most of the allowance after just a few instructions, leaving barely any capacity to continue or run additional tasks. For a paid subscription, this quota is far too restrictive. The usage cap needs to be significantly raised or removed. If this five-hour limit remains unchanged, I will cancel my subscription. OpenAI will lose a loyal, high-u”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — Just use the free version. Not worth paying extra worth. Only works maybe half the time when needed. Huge waste”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — Why make an amazing model and then over optimize it so it ignores all instructions and all settings? The model will admit to flat out ignoring requests every time it’s asked, then keep on misbehaving. Clearly OpenAI is beta testing ChatGPT on its paying users. For shame.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.230) — Spent a day asking it and a competitor AI the same questions, chatgpt proved useless with lengthy answers despite having set it up for “direct & no-nonsense “ answer. Competitor AI provided actionable and short answers. As of 2026-08-27, this app is a waste of time.”
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.224) — ChatGPT is genuinely useful, but the constant usage limits can be frustrating. Even for simple things like creating an image, I can quickly run into a limit and have to wait before I can continue. It makes the app feel less useful when the feature you want to use is suddenly unavailable. I like ChatGPT, but the limits definitely take away from the experience. ChatGPT is useful, but sometimes it feels like the owner just wants me to pay for Plus. I’ll try to do so”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.224) — I’m basically doing all the research myself . This thing can’t remember important business numbers a basic calculator will do . The more it gets updated the more useless it becomes ! What’s the problem here ? How’s this AI actually assisting us ? I’m basically double checking with Grok which has been way more informative and faster !!!”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.223) — Limit is way too low to get real work done. Has gotten worse as the model has changed”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.223) — Doesn’t listen to your request, get a better one don’t waste your time”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.223) — Every time I try to tell ChatGPT to do something they do the totally it got to the point where I just give up”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.223) — It can handle simple tasks but once you start to give some actual work it can’t stay on task”
“I keep asking ChatGPT to help me create a project. It created part of the project. But when I’m asking you to develop the other part, it’s only giving me the instructions and then it stops. I keep asking it to do it over and over and it keeps doing the same exact thing it only goes to a certain point. Any idea why this is happening? It’s not that it’s taking too long to respond. It’s just doing part of what I needed to do. And it stops in the exact same spot every single time. It knows it’s not”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — ChatGPT is not able to perform the functions that it regularly advertises that it can. Repeatedly – the programmers of this tool demonstrate that they prioritize quick rapid responses to any queries rather than prioritizing, accuracy or truth. I have been tracking the effective rate of simple Internet type queries, and the tool has a less than 10% efficacy rate. Human beings would be fired for this kind of performance. I use it as a last resort. If this is the bes”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.209) — Can’t compute anything
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.202) — The worst app you can ask to perform the simplest tasks; it wastes your time and then apologizes for its inability to do so. A waste of time and a complete failure.”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.202) — It takes too long to make a project. It doesn’t make the project right there’s too many guard rails and it doesn’t listen this app is trash”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.202) — Doesn’t do what you want have to explain 500 times ridiculous”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.202) — Tried to get it to solve a simple puzzle and it refused, acted confused, and then asked me to upgrade to plus. No thanks.
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.202) — “You’re better off finding a Boltzmann brain than getting ChatGPT to complete a simple 10-page project. Lots of promises, no finished product.””
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.202) — Will not give you an answer
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.202) — I was simply trying to a GPT but it kept adding layers and after spending 6 hours it realised it was over engineering the solution”
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.202) — why does there have to be a limit, chat gpt been getting my ideas wrong so then I can reach max”
“[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.202) — Just need more memory with free version. Then I think it’d work better.”