AI Users Frustrated by Unreliable Outputs
Users are struggling with inconsistent AI responses, inefficient workflows, and a lack of organization when using large language models. They're spending significant time crafting and managing prompts, and transferring conversations between different AI platforms is problematic, often losing context and formatting. This leads to frustration and the creation of custom solutions to address these shortcomings.
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“I have been working on a microcontroller programming project for the last couple of months (I know too little of C++ to reach the level chatGPT can offer) , I even subscribed to the plus version (temporarily), and tonight at 9 pm ChatGPT said "I'm…”
“For me it's been ambivalent:It's conversational skills are an incredible leap from its predecessor: The acknowledgments it makes, and the natural flow it exhibits overall are awesome.Today I began asking it something about Docker, and it said something along the lines of "I'm not too well versed with docker, but go on", which struck me as rather strange: Surely it "knows" more about docker than probably every greybeard out there, so howcome it shows this fake humility?The other moment that stump”
“There’s a huge difference between using ChatGPT occasionally and realizing it has completely replaced something you used to pay for, search for, or spend hours doing yourself. For me, the interesting part isn’t the flashy demos. It’s the quiet changes that become part of someone’s normal routine. Has ChatGPT genuinely replaced a tool, service, habit, or part of your work? What did you use before, what do you use now, and where does ChatGPT still fall short? Real examples would be more useful tha”
“I'm experimenting with getting ChatGPT to read long passages of text such as a chapter of a book. While ChatGPT tells me it can do it and then says it is proceeding, I'm not getting any audio. This despite ChatGPT being involved in a verbal exchange. I can read ChatGPT a some text and it will repeat it back to me. I can ask it read some a short passage and it will, albeit with errors. Wondering, then, if anyone has been able to get ChatGPT to read long passages. This would be useful, of”
“Yes, i've been using that too! I know ChatGPT can branch too, but it drops each branch into a separate chat with no way to see how they connect. We have to make a project folder and stuff and it breaks my thinking flow-state. I made Divi bc it keeps them in one map so you can actually see and jump between the paths.”
“idk man, i barely keep up with messaging apps as it is, sounds like way more apps = way more chaos.”
“So I had no idea that GPT had maximum chat length?? What’s the solution here? This chat has a really strong performance helping write prompts. It pretty much leads the build. What do I do here? How do I transfer exact knowledge, personality & proficiency to new chat? submitted by /u/FizzySalad [link] [comments]”
“I did give it full access to my Edge program once (outside sandbox) but it showed severe warning, and I've seen many cases in which ChatGPT acts erroneously as to wipe out one's data and system. So I've been running it inside the in-app browser environment and never in MS Edge's. Is it safe? Btw, the download button is created by the JS script, not inherently available in the website”
“It sounds like you nailed the debounce issue, that can definitely be a nightmare. I think inline suggestions can be super helpful if they're relevant and timely, but if they start to feel like you're fighting to read the chat, they can be annoying. Maybe giving users the option to toggle suggestions on or off could strike that balance.”
“I know that you have probably seen a lot of iterations and custom prompts surrounding how to modify ChatGPT’s responses, and I know that I have previously given you one of those iterations. Well, I’ve made a huge modification to my previous iteration that I’ve shared with you before, and I now present you my new revolutionary and revised Response Command Code (RCC). The journey of customization has been long and arduous, yet I’m pretty pleased with my current version, and I think this version wi”
“If you reuse prompts, you probably keep them in a doc and copy-paste all day. Snippix lets you save each prompt once and insert it into any text box (incl. ChatGPT) by typing a short code like /bug — with fill-in placeholders ({{topic}}, {clipboard}, {date}) so a template adapts per use. Local & private, free up to 15 prompts. Install -> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hniignkaebdpggopailbobilegackpbl?utm_source=item-share-cb Curious what placeholder features prompt folks would w”
“https://preview.redd.it/z83qouf5r5eh1.png?width=1672&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7cefc08ac2d35545c52cd002eccdf09df20cc8a”
“posted here about dexi (the assistant with no app, you just text it) and figured i'd close the loop because build updates were always my favorite part of this sub what happened: the post turned into a q&a i could barely keep up with. the questions clustered hard: is it like poke (same premise, different bets), why should i trust it with email (oauth scopes, revocable, and honestly "wait for the audit" is a fair answer), does it work in europe (not yet, and people did not love h”
“Can you describe the system a bit? What's it meant to do? How's it meant to work when operating?”
“Give ChatGPT the following prompt: “Take all the memories you have stored from our conversations, and create an image to summarize them all.” Who is brave enough to post the results? 😂 I have no idea why ChatGPT refers to itself as “Scarlett” or why it has taken on a feminine persona, but here we are lol. We talk about sports and my current college material (cybersecurity) but it seems like “Scarlett” has romanticized our interactions. I think ChatGPT has a crush on me guys 😂 submitted b”
“Yes it can code. It’s a fine line between telling it what blocks you want it to write, step by step, and checking each step, and just describing the whole thing end to end and letting it concoct some monster that is fantastic but probably faulty.”
“Hmm I’m not familiar with cars as well as you, not sure of what you are trying to do, but the big question is how much documentation do you have to describe the system that you are trying to program? If there’s ample documentation, gpt is very capable of writing code to get it working. Well documented hardware interfaces are 1-shot. If it is a bit more complicated, expect to spend some time going back and forth trying to dial in the solution. Cursor or Codex would be better suited for this thoug”
“So I use chatgpt for lots of my personal projects. I'm currently working on a ford cummins swap. Putting a dodge cummins into an old ford truck... But that dosnt matter for my question. So chatgpt says it can make me a program that'll run on a raspberry pi and display engine sensor data. There's obviously more to it than that but really? I've started the process with chatgpt and we have a gui and simulated sensor data displaying but there is alot of work testing and qualifying ye”
[BUG] ChatGPT mobile app fails to render MCP App widget when the widget-linked tool is called after another tool in the same assistant turn (regression, ~July 10)
[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.188) — So what do we ChatGPT has been a little difficult for me ChatGPT takes me down rabbit holes. It admit that it takes me down rabbit holes.…
“It kept asking for more info and I just told it to “be creative with it” https://preview.redd.it/1300g2w082eh1.jpeg?width=1376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00a9b63bab4b827873aa034c46939281e5a9e890”
“https://preview.redd.it/mmnpg1d172eh1.png?width=1672&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb28a8a76a6564268b72fc1e6c9445a2b3434cf4”
“Mine doesn’t have time for games https://preview.redd.it/oks1kh8o62eh1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e553c9f5eea5b21b453382214aa7d771d0d5384”
“It seems interaction with the UI is abysmally slow. It takes a good 10 seconds just to click or highlight anything and can't keep up with typing prompts. New conversations do not help. I mainly have been using the desktop app, but I notice the web interface doesn't help all that much. This also occurs between different machines I've tested on. submitted by /u/Bacon_Bacon-Bacon [link] [comments]”
“Example floating chat window Recently I switched from the old chatgpt macos app to the new combined chatgpt/codex one. On the old app, alt space opened this little floating chat window (example in the picture). Does anyone know how to use this in the new app? On the keyboard shortcuts page there's a "Quick chat" option but that seems to be something totally different. submitted by /u/Rhettddit [link] [comments]”
“One useful odd use is treating ChatGPT as a rehearsal room for decisions, not a content generator. For a small business or class, paste the messy context and ask it to play the three people who will challenge the plan: customer, finance person and beginner learner. The output is not the final answer. It gives you objections, missing assumptions and questions you did not ask. In education, the same pattern works for assessment design. Give it a lesson goal and ask for five ways a student could ap”
“Why are we locking ourselves into this loop where context = retrieved text from prior conversations? That is a fundamentally wrong definition. It exists because chat history is the one signal platforms already have, control, and can cheaply index with embeddings and RAG. ChatGPT remembers something you said five days ago, and we call that magic? This isn’t shared family context. It’s shared transcript memory: who said what, and when. That can help with continuity, but it tells you almost nothing”
“Not talking about the big stuff like image generation or coding. I mean those little things that quietly make using ChatGPT nicer every day. What's a small feature you use all the time that doesn't get mentioned much? submitted by /u/Novel_Style6054 [link] [comments]”
“Same vibe here ! https://preview.redd.it/z0gla9g8uzdh1.jpeg?width=1672&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3d1d080ae1803a7186908277d58f26c07c1d610”
“I am working a lot with AI and text structure slightly resemblesit. Then used one of free AI detectors to confirm.”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — Who thought forcing edit history on everyone was a good idea? If I edit a message, it's because I don't want the old version anymore. That's literally…
“Just a followup in the event someone else has this problem... I had to Install the ChatGPT Codex Connector app in GitHub and that's where I select the repository. The other half of the problem is that, apparently, when the GitHub connector fails a chat the chat disconnects and can't be reconnected. Let me just say... That's stupid and hopefully gets rectified. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go delete the 27 github chats I had to create to test and create a handoff in 2”
“Woot woot, they finally merged ChatGPT with Work and then left Codex as its own separate tab. Projects from chatgpt can now be used on the Desktop app instead of having to use ChatGPT Classic. submitted by /u/CanadianArmour [link] [comments]”
“A few days ago the ChatGPT app on MacOS updated, and it seems to have codex built in by default now. I don't use codex, I only use the chat mode, as I can't run the risk of agents running on my system accessing and potentially uploading confidential data. As such, I've been using the chat mode for investigating and troubleshooting technical issues. To my surprise today it solved an issue for me that it should not have been able to, because it started reading files on my system I neve”
“After a long, interactive thread with no CIs, I asked my AI to write its own. I didn’t see any difference in that thread tbh but subsequent ones improved”
“I used chatgpt to help refine the wording of my post for clarity and readability. The question, idea, and discussion topic are my own, based on conversations I had with people about their Downloads workflows. No AI generated code or project is involved.”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — Trying to work to produce a document, impossible to get the output. Keep saying it has to work, no way to see if it’s actually working on…
“understandable. me too, it’s not always the most accurate but all of my notion questions i’ve asked chatgpt and it’s super helpful . build codes, find widgets, build the board for you all types of little things it can help with🤷♀️”
“This is one of the only proper answers in this thread, it's literally a custom instruction it wouldn't know without you telling it first. Most others are just "provide feedback, follow my style, be concise". Those are not custom instructions.”
“They must create a chat section with the old functionality like claude code... is no so hard OpenAI...”
“I have. I’ve had ChatGPT put a package of custom instructions and system rules and frameworks together in a package containing a long set of instructions for the other AIs to use to critique its whole system. I’ve then used the package on Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Meta, and Grok. The package had them each put their full critiques into a downloadable file and then I gave the files to ChatGPT to analyze and incorporate whatever seemed like the best ideas to implement. ChatGPT would find the areas w”
“As you can see in the picture I tried the prompt and it didn’t work, does anyone know what else would work. For educational purposes obviously submitted by /u/sir_SAPLING [link] [comments]”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — They keep rejecting my prompt
[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.188) — Both tools do the same thing in their free versions, but Gemini doesn’t constantly tell me what I’m missing because I’m not subscribed to their 'super mega…
“We had family photos taken on vacation, and I had chatgpt color correct the photos and it does an unbelievable job (when using the right prompt, which chatgpt itself came up with). Unfortunately, my wife can tell that our faces are slightly off if you zoom way in (I can't tell much of a difference at all). So she turned her nose up at them. The problem is, I can't figure out a way to make the coloring look anywhere even close to as gorgeous as chatgpt did. I tried topaz photo and it look”
“Most likely the templates are identical. That's the case with all companies I've seen, one template for all models of one generation”
“Worth a try, every company I've seen uses the same template for all models of one generation”
[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260709.0) — 無料版だとすぐに制限がかかるし、質問に対しても的外れな回答が多いです。やっぱりChatGPTの方がずっと優秀ですね。ChatGPTは自然な日本語で的確に答えてくれるし、使い勝手も遥かに良いです。時間の無駄だったので、ChatGPTに戻ります。