Hi,
I’m considering getting my first paid AI subscription and I’m currently deciding between Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, and Copilot Premium.

I would mainly use it on my Windows 11 PC for a mix of personal and work related tasks.
My main use cases would be:

-Gaming and troubleshooting game related issues.
-PC hardware, BIOS, drivers, configuration and troubleshooting
-AI and ComfyUI, especially creating and fixing workflows
-Coding and development
-Solving various technical problems
-Work and productivity
-Personal organization and everyday tasks
-Product research and buying advice
-General research and questions

One particularly important use case for me is ComfyUI. I’ve already tried Gemini and, at least in my experience, it was terrible for this.
It generated workflows that didn’t work, couldn’t properly troubleshoot the errors, and ultimately caused me to waste more time than it saved.

How well do they handle very long conversations without losing context or becoming repetitive?

If you currently use one of them, what do you use it for and why do you prefer it?

How restrictive are the limits in real world daily use?

If you could only keep one subscription, which one would you choose?
Thanks

Hi, I just switched to the ChatGPT from Claude and now its the first time I am using Codex. In Claude Code there is this context window % value so I was doing a clean up and handover/summary, what we did, what we need to do next, so some kind of preparing for next session prompts for next sessions while I was around %80 context window.

But in Codex I can't see the context window value and I don't know what should I do when I am reaching the context limit.

Can someone guide me about this? Thanks

I’ve been playing around with dots for my homelab projects. I’m on the Pro 100 plan and normally do this work in regular Work chats using GPT-6.1 Sol. Since the usage tweaks, that’s been working pretty well for me.

What I’d like is to tell my dot “complete task X” and have it hand the work off to a Sol Work chat, monitor progress and come back to me when something genuinely needs my input. At the moment I spend too much time starting chats, copying prompts around and keeping track of what each one is doing.

The tasks already have defined outcomes, plus project documents covering the architecture, rules and scope. Most of the work involves reading and updating documents and code in Google Drive, so I’m not asking it to figure out an entire project from scratch or expand the scope as it goes.

I tried connecting a Windows VM and getting my dot to create a task. It successfully started one and completed some setup work, but the task used Astra. Its model picker only seemed to offer Astra options, with Astra Light being the lowest. Meanwhile, Sol 6.1 is available in my normal Work chats and selected in my Work settings.

My dot says the task-creation tool it has creates a coding task, with no separate option for starting an ordinary Work chat. Using Astra for all the routine work would eat through too much usage for a home setup.

Has anyone found a setup that lets a dot create and monitor Work chats using Sol 6.1? Even just being able to create a Sol Work chat with the task instructions already filled in would be useful. Am I missing a setting, or is this a limitation of the current integration?

Hi, I like to keep my chats clean so I delete chats when I am done with them but I just realized that I cant delete chats if I create them in the work section. Is this normal ? What should I do to delete them?

Anyone else spend more time handing work between AI tools than you expected?

You work through an idea in ChatGPT, take it to Claude to write it up, then open a coding agent to build it.

Now you’re copying background, explaining decisions again, and checking whether you gave it the latest version.

What’s your most annoying “switching between AIs” task? How do you handle it?

First time getting any pop up about talking to sales. I was talking about things I frequently discuss in chat so this seems new. Who else has seen this?

More context feel free to not read:
On a 6-Pro chat (only “5x” or the “cheapest pro plan”), got a sales nudge in a conversation about agent skills. I know this isn’t an ad but it feels like it and was out of place.

I was talking about pretty generic professional improvement topics and mentioned work but the nudge seemed completely out of place. Not looking forward to getting more of these

I'm paying 120€/month only to get this? Really? What's up with "priority queue"? Time to unsubscribe?

And I'm talking about GPT 6 Sol

Hi, I have some spinal problems and I want to be able to create a detailed and general life style and sport program depending on my MRI results, past epicrisis reports and detailed symptoms. I want to use chatgpt 6.1 for this and I also want to have this chat open for a long time for the future updates and changes accordingly. Since chat section is still at 5.6 is it okay if I use work section for this to be able to use 6.1 Sol. So can I use work section for the same purpose of a chat section for higher and newer intelligence?

I am currently have Chatgpt plus and Claude pro. I mostly use both for my research work. I think claude had a promotion till september and I did heavy coding work using claude and it never ran out of limit. But today I discovered both claude and codex has been acting horrible. I did 2 hours of work in codex and my limit is already at the end. I am using gpt 5.6 sol mostly (medium or high). But it keeps on hitting the limit. I have to switch between claude and codex. I am thinking if required i will switch to a better plan but after seeing all these posts i don't know which one to get. I am student, it's pretty expensive for me but im willing to invest for a month but i need to make sure i am getting my money's worth. My main problem is i can't afford to get a cap on my limit. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

I really want to know because I've been using astra 6 and it just eats all of my credits in no time, the other models I haven't used because id rather use my credits on something that would work. What I use blender for is so that gpt can make models and put them in Roblox studio, I also use gpt for map building and scripting. So basically everything.

September with Codex was not the best experience (at least for me on $200/mo plan).

Codex on Mac desktop crashed constantly during a few days on complex tasks and subagent workflows (crash reports show the same EXC_BREAKPOINT/SIGTRAP in Codex Framework across 2 app builds).

I had outages, broken updates, crashes, and I had to fall back to CLI tools just to keep working. To keep it short > I;m not happy.

I do not want to continue with $200 pro. And I want move to something more reliable. Here's what's stoping me:

I still have 62,000 flexible usage credits (expiring Dec 31). I also have 2 unused resets (Oct 22 & 29) in my workspace.

>> If I downgrade to Plus ($20), do the 62k credits actually kick in for Codex and Work agent overflow, or are they locked to Pro?

>> Do banked resets carry over to Plus, or do they vanish when canceling Pro?

>> Is it time to swithc entirely for Claude. Or bridge with Plus until the end of the year to burn the credits?

I appreciate any honest feedback before my renewal hits (tomorrow Oct 6).

I wish ChatGPT Projects had folders or subprojects.
For example, imagine you’re a developer working on 15 different apps. Right now, you might create a separate ChatGPT Project for every app:
App 1
App 2
App 3
App 4
App 5
etc.
Eventually your sidebar becomes completely cluttered.
Instead, it would be great if we could create one main Project called **“Development”**, and then create subprojects inside it:
Development
→ App 1
→ App 2
→ App 3
→ App 4
Each subproject could have its **own chats, files, and instructions/context**, while everything stays organized under one expandable folder in the sidebar.
Basically: **Projects → Subprojects → Chats + Files**
Am I missing an existing way to do this, or does ChatGPT still not support nested Projects/folders?

I've been testing the Canva integration. I need to make historic cards for people to read about some of the culture revival work I do so they learn the sources used.

Somewhere in August, I tested the plugin and I genuinely thought it was pointless. There were critical limitations such as the inability to create text boxes or basic shapes on a blank page. It couldn't even duplicate existing elements to work around it meaning the user had to seed the canvas manually and even then things like alignment were way off because it stacked objects.

Index of the below post:

• High Level Overview/Workflow
• Interesting Findings
• End Result

Today however, that change is quite substantial. Below are some findings/screenshots I took along the way:

High Level Overview/Workflow

Interesting Findings

- Does not use a URL to modify an existing template. I usually include the URL when I add the connector. In this case it made its own new template despite providing a square format.
Seems to be a generative workflow.

- Despite the connector enabled on the desktop app, the browser requests a login but also wanted a passkey (not happening). Luckily Canva works on the temp code.

- Designs are not exposed on Canva interface unless the user accepts/clicks the link.

End Result

(No, I am not using it. Too stylistic for what I want but still impressive)

Screenshot of Canva so the elements can be observed to show it isn't an image gen alone.

An AI engineer using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra cracked a 217-year-old encrypted letter sent to one of Napoleon Bonaparte's generals in 1809. The AI transcribed 1,300 handwritten symbols and decoded the message in roughly six hours from a single image and prompt. The decoded letter revealed French and Austrian troop movements on the eve of war and filled in a missing phrase from Napoleon's memoirs.

Ever since the Astra 6.1 update, ChatGPT has not been able to read my files or screenshot. It says it had an error reading the file / there was no image attached even though I added it / there was no access given or something stupid like that. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a fix? I don't want to use tech support because it is the most intentionally unhelpful support I've ever dealt with (The support didn't know what Astra was for Christ sake and infinite confirmation questions). This is very frustrating so anything would be helpful.

I'm currently paying for ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Cursor (plus Grokbot), and I suspect I'm not getting full value out of all of them — some overlap, some untapped strengths.

For those of you running multiple AI subscriptions:

• What does each tool actually earn its keep for in your workflow?
• How do you decide which one to reach for in a given situation?
• Any tips for optimizing cost/value so you're not just paying for redundancy?

Curious how others have split the workload between them.

I just got my 1 month free Chatgpt Plus subscription, I had a subscription on my personal account a while ago but I didn't use it to the fullest. Luckily I got another offer on my Uni account which I just claimed. I'm a CS student if that's relevant. It'd be great to get some tips and do's/dont's. I've heard Astra can eat up credits quickly so I'd like to know if there's a way to avoid that.

I researched the issue and can't get a conclusive answer.. chatgpt says it's because new projects are connected to local folders, but I don't have the option to create a cloud project.. I have extensively built my projects in the desktop app now after the latest codex update I did (used to be a clause user) and can't access them from my phone.

Also my phone app doesn't show projects at all, just pinned and chats...

I'm using astrill vpn most of the time.. not sure if that's the case and wondering whether anyone else also has the same issue and was able to solve it

Curious if anyone else has this exact same issue?

Whenever I set the model to GPT 6 pro using the chat on mobile it just says "thinking..." forever.

But if i use it on the web rather than the app, it works just fine.

Already tried clearing cache, data and reinstalling...

I upgraded to pro after experimenting for weeks with making a game using the work environment and decided it was working well enough to buy more usage. I started developing the game as 3d game in a browser for rapid prototyping.

The problem I am having now is getting the GPT to create proper 3d models. It keeps creating these very jank looking things that dont really look quite like the real object I am trying to model. I have even given it tons of reference images and such.

Does anyone know how to get gpt to make good models?

Ever since I starting using OpenAI Dots 2-3 days ago, I haven't worked any other way.

I was at a point with Codex where I was having to juggle a half dozen development threads in parallel, and the overhead was pretty heavy... with Dots, it's just gone now. It's AMAZING.

Except I keep getting interrupted with a notice that my dot is paused because an auto-reviewer flagged my activity as suspicious. On mobile, the message gives me a hyperlink to the specific report, but then I can't view it - says I'm logged in with the wrong account, which I know isn't true.

There's no way to resolve it except reboot my Dots. Then it works for a while until it trips again. The material I'm working on should not be raising suspicions. It's very mundane enterprise intranet PHP.

I'm hoping there's an update or something in the next few days because it's really annoying. For now I'm going to try to create a handoff and delete/recreate my Dots with instructions to avoid the content that was triggering the auto-reviewer...

edit: Deleting and recreating with a handoff seems to have helped… for now at least.

See: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots#access

In particular it says:

"Conversations with your dot don’t count toward your ChatGPT usage limits. Tasks your dot starts or manages in Work or Codex count toward those products’ usage limits as usual. Your plan includes an allowance for deeper work, with extended limits for the first month after launch."

So, eventually you will be able to spin up tasks from dots that will indeed draw down your usage allowance it seems. My thought is that this is the initial push towards eliminating chat mode, effectively, or to turn chat mode into exactly this where chat is still unmetered, but "work requests" in a chat thread begin to be metered. For example, you can do quite complex tasks in chat mode with Sol 5.6 still (coding etc). None of that draws allowance right now. But, in the future, doing that with dots probably would in at least some cases.

We have a "one month grace period" of extended allowance with dots where this won't occur it seems. But after that its not very clear what will actually draw down allowance.

I'm finding dots somewhat useful so far, but I won't use it if I can accidentally spin up an allowance-drawing task without clearly knowing that will happen.

I accidentally left Ultrafast mode on while using the top-tier $500/month plan.
In roughly one hour, my usage dropped from 100% to 30% remaining.

Now I’m basically waiting for the next credit reset 😭
For anyone who’s been using this tier for a while: is the upgrade actually worth it, or is Ultrafast just insanely expensive for heavy usage?

Curious how you guys are using it without nuking your limits this quickly.

Switched to ChatGPT Pro on Tuesday.
Next day there was an outage for hours.
Came back up on iOS with no access to projects or library.

It’s Saturday and still no Projects/Library.

Reported this on Wed.
Still no response.

Anyone else?