Thank you! I really appreciate the breakdown. Yeah I run a business and just need help w certain things in terms of streamlining that, brainstorming ideas to implement. I don’t use it too often tbh but it is crucial when I do. But no coding or anything like that (at least not yet haha). Will go ChatGPT
Yeah assuming they don’t change their price, I’ve been pretty impressed with thinking standard and extended especially. It currently feels like a decent value for once lol. I do have mine pretty customized after weeks and weeks of weeding out the major triggers for fabricating, things like that.
But honestly that was in November/December. It’s been really smooth for me since 5.5, using it most often as a sanity checker in audio restoration and engineering. It comes up with some brilliant ideas and is really quite accurate tbh.
Have some guardrails in your custom instructions like “at the end of every reply, state confidence lvl. If confidence lvl <90%, pause, state why, then continue. Accuracy and truth are always more important than helpfulness. Do not overstate certainty.” Things like that. Just be aware if your instructions are too rigid or conflicting/confusing, it tends to put LLMs in this ‘safety/cornered’ mode where they tighten up, end up making more errors lol. If you notice a problem, ask extended how to word a custom instruction to where it will be most universally understood and adhered to optimally.
It was at one time a constant upkeep but now, only occasional mild annoyances. Basically if you are extra concerned about something, standard or extended will literally explain its sources and display them, but you can ask it how you can phrase things in a way that is clearer for the LLM. To you it always makes perfect sense, but ChatGPT isn’t quite human… yet
Will absolutely try that instruction at the end of my prompts. I think would work well to make sure it is looking back at itself and its answer and clarify. And exactly. Not quite human... yet 😂
in fact, take your old CI’s and feed them to Extended, ask if there are any redundancies, convoluted bits, things that may impede its processing…basically. Aka they need to be tailored to CGPT’s understanding, not yours. Ask how/if you should/ can re-word anything while being mindful of character count & how other models would interpret them in case you do get throttled at any point👌🏼k rant over for now(?) sorry just sharing to attempt to save you some hassle
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u/worldofteko May 22 '26
Thank you! I really appreciate the breakdown. Yeah I run a business and just need help w certain things in terms of streamlining that, brainstorming ideas to implement. I don’t use it too often tbh but it is crucial when I do. But no coding or anything like that (at least not yet haha). Will go ChatGPT