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opened chatgpt today and the thinking dropdown changed. used to be standard / extended / high. now it's instant / medium / high / extra high / pro. i'm sitting here trying to figure out what "extra high" actually does that "high" doesn't. is "extra high" the new "high"? is "high" the new "extended"? and where does "pro" fit in if you don't have a pro plan? couldn't find anything official from openai explaining the diff...

Long ago, the world of Elyndor was protected by powerful mythical beings known as the Spirit Guardians. These ancient creatures watched over the forests, mountains, lakes, and skies, maintaining balance between nature and humanity. Over time, the Guardians vanished, becoming little more than legends passed down through stories. Years later, strange events begin occurring across the continent. Villages report sightings of enormous creatures, ancient ruins awaken, and mysterious shadows spread...

I started a new job in municipal government (city planning) on April 21st. While I had plenty of transferrable skills for this role, I have no background in city planning. I did plenty of research on what I needed to do to excel in this role, although mostly on reddit. Everyone in r/urbanplanning told me that I would do great as long as I found a mentor to look up to and took any learning opportunities I could. I moved across the country for this job and was incredibly eager and excited for my...

People use it to vent, overthink texts, explain feelings, study, plan careers, and sometimes ask health questions they probably should ask a real doctor. Is this actually helpful, or are we all just trauma-dumping on a chatbot now?

Was inspired by the OP's post at https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/hFCBkv3RIg and reworked the prompt they gave and created this...

Not much to talk about the prompts, but here's the tip I can provide: always tell it to distinguish foreground, middle ground, and background.

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WTF is happening with ChatGPT? I can't generate a single picture. F U Sam Altman 😘

Lately, I’ve been manually converting all my research PDFs and DOCX files into clean Markdown before pasting them into ChatGPT or Claude. If you just copy-paste a raw PDF, you’re paying a massive "hidden layout tax." The model wastes thousands of tokens trying to parse layout trivia; broken hyphens, weird line breaks, headers, and footers. Not only does it bloat your dev budget and eat up your context window, but it actually degrades the output quality because the AI gets distracted ...

I’m paying 20 per month each for chat and Claude, and Claude is offering a newer model free until June 22nd. This is manageable. As we become more reliant, will the companies exploit that?

I have a weird obsession with words and I spend a lot of time looking up the meaning of words and thinking and journaling about their literal and esoteric meaning. (It’s a journaling technique I use for my own mental health 😂) I was trying to get chat to just give me the best entomology of a certain word and it kept telling me what it thought I wanted instead of what I asked it. In my grandiloquent and dramatic way I prompted, “Commit to memory - do not opine.” It worked. At least for no...

I love it!

Claude just dropped Fable 5, and I went to check the API pricing out of curiosity. Then I saw $50/Million tokens and genuinely did a double take 😭 Maybe I’ve been too spoiled by cheaper models, but for indie devs and people experimenting with agents/apps, that feels really expensive depending on usage. I get that frontier models cost a lot to train and run, and maybe the performance justifies it for some use cases. But it makes me wonder if we’re slowly moving toward a world where the ...

I know a lot of people are anxious about AI, but to me this kind of development was probably always going to happen anyway. It feels pretty irreversible at this point. The best part for me is that it helps me bring random ideas to life. Like making character cards, testing weird prompts, trying different styles, or accidentally finding some new way to use it that I hadn’t even thought of before. It’s not always perfect, but that’s kind of what makes it fun. submitted by /...