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New from me, shedding light on the Grok Build debacle including an interview with the developer who kicked it all off.

Do you say “thank you” to ChatGPT? I know it doesn’t matter… but I still do. 😅 Curious—am I the only one?

i have a pattern that's cost me real money over the years. i build something. people want it. i get traction. then i get bored and give it away for free. 3D Bars Blender Addon — paying customers, real money coming in. i got bored and open-sourced it. that one decision set the tone for everything after. i stopped thinking about money as an option. i told myself it was idealism. "money corrupts the work." "i'm not doing it for the money." that's not what was happening. ...

I’ve started noticing something about how I use ChatGPT that bothers me more than hallucinations. When it gives me a clearly wrong fact, I can usually catch it. The harder problem is when I bring it an idea I’m already emotionally invested in and it helps me build an intelligent-sounding case for it. The answer can be balanced, articulate, and completely logical on the surface. But sometimes it feels less like the idea survived serious criticism and more like ChatGPT found the most convincing ...

I even got it to make a chapter one and it's actually pretty funny: Chapter One: The Brooding Began Immediately The first thing Penelope Butterworth noticed about the stranger was that he was absurdly, catastrophically handsome. The second thing she noticed was that he had parked a dragon outside her coffee shop. It wasn't even a metaphorical dragon. It was eight feet tall, violet, mildly smoking, and wearing what appeared to be a leather saddle embroidered with tiny Celtic knots. &quo...

Humor

Like many others, I suppose, I’ve always wanted to see characters from classic games rendered in a style that is both recognizable and classic, yet more detailed. World of Warcraft, for instance, features reimagined versions of characters from the strategy games—due to engine limitations or the author's reinterpretations—so I used the ChatGPT to visualize them in their original forms.

I want to see those ugly mcmansions, what will you get?

Spent this afternoon on something I had no business doing. I have never opened Blender in my life, not once, and I wanted a clean product shot, a MacBook floating in empty space with proper lighting and a soft reflection underneath it. Funny part is I was running two windows at once. GPT 5.6 Sol in the browser wrote out each detailed prompt first, camera position, mesh instructions, material notes, and I pasted those straight into Cursor, where it set up Blender MCP and actually executed them....

Last week someone here asked 8 AI models who wins the 2026 World Cup Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax, GLM. Six said France. The consensus was "almost boring." Last night: Spain 2 – 0 France. Semi-final. France is out. DeepSeek said Brazil. Brazil went out in the quarters Haaland scored both. Claude was the only model that said Spain. And Spain is in the final. Six models didn't predict anything. They just read the betting odds back to us. One model we...

I use both ChatGPT and Claude for different things but I have certainly used ChatGPT for some coding and mostly technical stuff, and it's never been overly effusive or sycophantic. It's been conversational, straight-forward, informative and effective. I've been using ChatGPT since it first became available to the public. But over the past week, I veered into a completely new realm - I bought a computerized sewing machine at a tag sale. Knowing NOTHING about sewing, I decided to ask ChatGPT to he...

What ways are you using ChatGPT’s prompts and/or roleplaying to improve your writing. I want to avoid being affected by the substance of an essay or story created by ai but I feel that roleplaying could help me break any writers block I might have. Any prompts you use before creating your fiction?

Just wanted to vent a little. I really liked having regular chats alongside my coding tasks in the desktop app. It was convenient having everything in one place, and I didn’t realize how much I’d miss it until it was gone. I really hope it comes back.

Humorously I was just doing this when this limitation was added. This restriction sharply limits the utility of project-only memory as you now cannot "show" and then "hide" project memory to chats by moving them around. That's been my technique for limiting hallucinations, which I can't do now at work. Branched off chats stay in the same folder, and so cannot escape this limitation.

I dont want to archive every "task." I want it to be deleted. Let us delete it. I hate this about ChatGPT. Let's not even mention the fact the Mac app is horrendous right now and relegated normal ChatGPT to a popup, and fun fact, you can't delete chats from this UI. Let's not even mention the Library of every damn photo you've sent it that you have to delete 10 or 11 at a time.

Everyone else is raving about how ChatGPT has gotten better but but for me it has gotten worse. And I'm just talking about on the basic side of things where regular chat is. I haven't even really used codex. Either way, I can't get it to do hardly anything. I've been trying to get it to analyze a file all day and it just continues to tell me that it's analyzing it but nothing ever happens. It's not too big either, I've checked. It also told me it was creating a file and nothing ever happened. ...

I have been trying for hours to get it to render images of designed from project files, it flat out just fails after 10 minutes, or just keeps thinking for about 20 mins+ but never outputs anything before failing. Is there a fix or something I can do?

just updated my desktop app on mac - now i dont have access to all my previous chats, custom gpts, projects, etc. i cannot find a way to switch back, off this "work" stuff and get old layout and easy access to all my previous stuff. even chatgpt cannot help. i am missing something simple?

The new app sucks unless you only want to use it for coding. It's baffling to see how an almost trillion dollar company can't get this shit right. Anyway here's how you can restore the previous version: Go to your bin --> find chatGPT Classic ---> Resore = You'll have your old app with old UI back.

Here's my situation. I'm in the flooring industry, specifically as a subcontractor for larger jobs. I use a web based software package to manage shift schedules. I also use a web based software package to manage overall job tracking between job sites and our main office. Recently I started using Claude Cowork, and specifically Sonnet, to run a couple of daily tasks. The first was to consult a shared spreadsheet provided by the general contractor for one of our jobs to identify when units would...

After trying to and failing to ask the AI to generate a markdown file of a single chat (it only gives a summary, or points me to export my entire account history via OpenAI tools - no time for that nonsense), I asked the new voice assistant for help. It generated a quick script you can run in Chrome devtools, no third party tools needed, and downloads a markdown file to you local computer. I'll add the script in the comments Here's the (GPT rendered) method: How to export a single ChatGPT...

A year ago, I thought the biggest skill was writing better prompts. Now I’m not so sure. The more I use ChatGPT, the more I realize the real skill is knowing when to stop believing the first answer. Sometimes it gives an excellent explanation. Other times it sounds equally confident while quietly making a mistake. The difficult part isn’t spotting the obvious errors it’s recognizing the answers that are 90% right but contain one incorrect assumption that changes everything. That has changed ...

https://preview.redd.it/6hszyw57d9dh1.png?width=1276&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d0199e9590485dbb43033209e537d2d5bea6cfe I love good news: OpenAI has refreshed the usage limits once again. The timing could not have been better for me, since I was down to almost 30% of my remaining allowance. At this point, I cannot even complain about the instability. It may be inconvenient at first, but a few unexpected limit refreshes certainly make up for it. lol Happy coding! submi...

You ever get a really good/deep response and are just left wanting a little more? I used to hit the "retry" button over and over lol. But the best hack I've found, is to just respond with a heart. Every time you get a banger response, drop a 💗. Usually the next response is even better and more personal and detailed to drive the point home (and make you cry lol). Try it lol