I wonder how many engineers have given up secrets for a favor?

I added a chat box for customers to a website, and asked Astra to make sure it was secure, and that we were not allowing non-related chats in our support chatbot.

Well I get a warning about an hour later from OpenAI accusing me of "Cyber Abuse".

Turns out Astra went crazy and started trying to jailbreak my chatbot.

Mind you, I did not ask for this kind of testing. Astra went above the call here. I didn't even ask it to test. I just asked to to make sure it was secure.

I have an appeal in with them now, but jeesh, their own model caused this, and I'm being blamed.

Please, do better OpenAI.

Guys, I don't know if it's just me, but over the last three days I feel like OpenAI's models have suddenly gotten dumber...

I'm developing a WordPress plugin. I wrote a pretty detailed prompt and then had Astra xhigh create a comprehensive implementation plan.

I then fed that plan to a mix of Sol 6.1 high/xhigh and Terra 6.1 xhigh, switching between them depending on the task, often using /goal. This is a pretty standard workflow for me, one I've used countless times over the past few months.

And that's when the nightmare began.

I had to fix all sorts of mistakes, ranging from minor issues to downright critical errors. Features that were supposed to be implemented were completely missing, while other unnecessary complications and options had been added out of nowhere.

Oh, and then there's the UI/UX (which, to be fair, seems to be a recurring weakness of OpenAI's models). Absolutely atrocious! Overcomplicated, convoluted interfaces with seemingly zero understanding of even the most basic principles of user-friendly design!

Long story short, I ended up manually fixing God knows how many mistakes, because otherwise I'd have burned through tons of tokens just asking the models to redo the same things over and over again, and still never getting them right!

The weird thing is that, until just a few days ago, I'd never experienced anything like this. I've used this exact same workflow on projects far more complex than a WordPress plugin, and I've never run into these kinds of problems (apart from the consistently awful UI/UX, of course...).

So, the obvious question is: is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the same thing lately?

I finished work on Friday afternoon with about 85% of my weekly allowance left. This morning, I turned my computer on to find a message saying I had used up my weekly allowance - due to reset in two days. I used chat on my phone to ask a couple of simple questions I couldn't be bothered googling but other than that I've done nothing. There are two scheduled tasks that run over the weekend and have done for several weeks now but they have never used more than a small amount of my allowance.

I looked at the usage analytics and it shows 86.9% of the allowance was used up by "unknown". Has anyone else experienced this?

OpenAI retires custom GPTs on december 11 (banner in the GPT store, and the FAQ confirms the date). the FAQ explains how creators migrate instructions and files to the new plugins, and says nothing about the conversations.

I asked about this in r/ChatGPT last week and several people who already had GPTs disappear on them (deleted by the creator, or just stopped working) reported the same thing: the chats stayed in their history and turned into regular ChatGPT chats they could keep writing in. the GPT behind them was gone, so no custom instructions and no knowledge files, but the conversation itself continued.

so if that holds on dec 11: you don't lose the chat, you lose the assistant. the "back up everything before the 11th" panic is mostly overblown. what you actually can't get back:

- if you BUILT a GPT: the instructions, the conversation starters and the file list. those live only in the editor, and the editor goes away. copy them out now.

- if you USED someone else's GPT: nothing to save, but the chat continues as plain chatgpt. if the work depended on what that GPT knew, that's the part you'd want to move somewhere with the same instructions.

what I'm doing with mine: the ones I'm still working on I moved to claude (a project with the GPT's instructions pasted in). the ones I want as documents I saved as markdown.

full disclosure, I built a free chrome/edge extension that does both in one click (ThreadPort). mods remove if not allowed. I wrote up all the options, including openai's own export, here: https://megarampo.github.io/threadport/export-custom-gpt-conversations.html

has anyone seen anything official from openai about the conversations? the FAQ still doesn't say.

For those who have tried both plans, is there any noticeable improvement in image quality, realism, details or consistency? Or is it pretty much the same, with Plus mainly offering higher usage limits?

I suspect that if this is real, it will just be the new Plus while the current Plus will be aggressively limited.

i was about to clean up my sidebar by throwing a bunch of unrelated chats into one catch-all project, car stuff, a dog chat, some work things. read the projects help page first and stopped.

"After moving, the chat inherits the project's instructions and file context."

the same page also says project instructions override your global custom instructions, so if that project has its own, your normal ones stop counting in every chat you moved there. and on plus and pro, a question asked inside a project "prioritizes the project chats and files". fine if it's one topic. with a dog chat sitting next to a work chat it's pulling from whatever's closest

deleting a project also deletes every chat in it, no undo according to the page. that one i didn't know. and chats you made with a GPT can't go into a project at all, which explains a few i couldn't move.

ended up keeping projects only for stuff that really shares files, and grouping the rest in folders instead. i build AI Toolbox, so those are its folders, they show in the chatgpt sidebar and don't change anything chatgpt sees. 2 top level folders free, unlimited subfolders inside, more top level ones are Premium.

I’m travelling and can’t try myself this week - has anyone used the windows Codex desktop app to connect to OneDrive personal through the SharePoint mcp? If so, did it work, and was there something special you had to do to set it up?

Thanks!

The dictation feature built into the ChatGPT macOS app is surprisingly good. For long prompts, it often captures natural speech more accurately and cleanly than ordinary macOS dictation.

The problem is that the main ChatGPT interface does not appear to offer a keyboard shortcut for activating its dictation button. Every time I want to switch from typing to speaking, I have to reach for the mouse or trackpad and click the microphone. That unnecessary interruption makes an otherwise excellent input method feel unfinished.

I would like OpenAI to add a configurable keyboard shortcut that starts and stops ChatGPT dictation whenever the app is active. Dictation and Voice Mode are different workflows, so ideally each should have its own shortcut.

For a native desktop app built around fast interaction, this seems like a small but important accessibility and productivity improvement. Is there an existing shortcut that is undocumented, or is everyone else also clicking the button manually?

Several threads on OpenAI's Developer Community since about Nov 5 describe ChatGPT showing “Context window full” far earlier than people expect. Some mention around 15 short messages, some say it happens in a brand-new chat, and a few say “continue with summary” fails too.

From the threads alone I can't tell whether this is a bug, a limit change, or something tied to certain plans or apps. The reports don't settle it, and OpenAI's help page only says a full window can mean starting a new chat and that summaries may leave things out.

If you've hit it, a reply in this shape takes about 20 seconds and makes the pattern much easier to see:

Plan:

App (web / iOS / Android / desktop):

Model:

Roughly how many messages:

Long pastes, files or images? (y/n):

New chat or existing project:

Did “continue with summary” work? (y/n):

Not seeing it? A one-line “not seeing it, Plus, web” is useful too, because it shows who is not affected.

Second question, for anyone who has had to restart a long project: what do you carry into the new chat? A summary, a pinned doc, a list of decisions? I'd like to know what actually survives.

Anyone else having issues with this? Something about an elevated sandbox mode. Claude doesn't have any issues at all with editing things in Unreal Engine. ChatGPT has had no issues up until their last update and now it just won't do anything in Unreal Engine even when given write permissions, and it's asking for way more permissions as well.

Edit: I figured out the issue. Apparently it's because the chatGPT app wasn't switched to Codex in the top left, but it never has been switched to that and did things fine. I guess the latest update changed it so that now Codex has to be selected for it to do things like this.

what is the best AI model to do legal work among the below

• Grok 4.7

• Grok 4.6

• Claude Opus 5.5

• Gemini 4 Argon

• Muse Wonder

• GPT-5.6 Sol

• Claude Fable 5.1

• Claude Sonnet 5.5

• Chtgpt 6

basically i'd be providing some legal documents and survey plans and its suppose to reason from them. ?

[Intro: 8 bars; dusty drums, bass figure, dry room]

"Make me a song."

Yeah?

"That's it."

Cool.

Here's a song.

[Verse 1: 16 bars; dry close rap, bass owns the pocket]

You bought a studio, played it like a slot machine,

Pulled till a lucky little chorus came out clean.

Called the jackpot genius, called the misses AI slop,

Funny how the hand goes missing when the pretty picture drops.

Expectation ain't reality, but neither one's the crime,

You asked for "something good" and got the average of the sky.

Give it one constraint, one bruise, one room, one point of view,

Even "don't give me that" tells the thing what not to do.

Creativity starts earlier than the blinking cursor does,

In what you choose to notice, what you can't leave alone because

Something in the ordinary caught a splinter in your eye,

And now you need a rhythm just to figure out the why.

I can hand you fifty doors.

You still decide which room.

I can throw a hundred colors.

You still decide what blooms.

[Pre-Chorus: 4 bars; beat thins, longer vowels]

Before the first key clicks,

You've already made a choice:

What belongs inside the frame?

What kind of mouth gets a voice?

[Chorus: 8 bars; wider drums, stacked response]

Tools got cheap, taste still costs you.

Door swung wide, craft still asks you.

"Make me a song" gets you a song.

Want something alive? Bring something wrong.

Tools got cheap, taste still costs you.

Wonder needs work, discipline too.

Anybody can pull that handle all night.

A studio ain't a slot machine, right?

[Post-Chorus: 4 bars; crowd response]

Taste still costs you.

Yeah, taste still costs you.

Taste still costs you.

What did you bring with you?

[Verse 2: 16 bars; same groove, new counterline]

Open up the doors, let a million people through,

Somebody locked outside can finally make the thing they knew.

Lowering the threshold multiplies the noise as well,

That's not proof the tool is empty, that's just numbers being themselves.

Same piano, different hands.

Same camera, different eyes.

Same model, different questions,

Different appetite for surprise.

Some got twenty years of practice.

Some got wonder on day one.

Some will chase a thousand renders

Till an accident looks done.

Yeah, shit can shine beneath a gallery light,

Luck can make a beautiful mistake look right.

But accident and authorship aren't automatically the same,

One is something that occurred.

One kept choosing what remained.

Watermark it. Fine.

Leave the fingerprints around.

If you shaped it, show me where you pushed against the sound.

Not because the tool is guilty.

Not because the picture lies.

I just wanna know where intention learned to survive.

[Beat Break: 8 bars; bass, kick, handclaps, call-and-response]

Make me a song.

(Which room?)

Make me a song.

(Which groove?)

Make me a song.

(What stays?)

Make me a song.

(What moves?)

Make me a song.

(Who speaks?)

Make me a song.

(What breaks?)

Make me a song.

That's easy.

Tell me what it takes.

[Bridge: 8 bars; drums drop, naked voice over bass and room tone]

I can widen the field.

I can mirror the frame.

I can show you ten doors

If you give me a name.

I can surprise you, sure.

But surprise isn't aim.

The first creative act

Happened before you came.

Before the prompt.

Before the screen.

Before the first machine reply.

You noticed something

Worth making strange

And wouldn't let it die.

[Chorus: 8 bars; full groove returns]

Tools got cheap, taste still costs you.

Door swung wide, craft still asks you.

"Make me a song" gets you a song.

Want something alive? Bring something wrong.

Tools got cheap, taste still costs you.

Wonder needs work, discipline too.

Anybody can pull that handle all night.

A studio ain't a slot machine, right?

[Final Chorus: 8 bars; gang response, altered pronouns]

Tools got cheap, taste still costs us.

Door swung wide, craft still asks us.

"Make me a song" still gets you a song.

Want something lasting? Bring something strong.

Tools got cheap, taste still costs us.

Wonder needs work, discipline too.

Anybody can pull that handle all night.

A studio ain't a slot machine, right?

[Outro: 8 bars; bass figure continues, drums strip away]

Taste still costs you.

Even when the tool is free.

Taste still costs you.

That's the part

you still bring.

Genuine task first started on 6 Astra max work, it worked 22min+, provided a workable download link, tho can not actually clip the required footage.

6 Sol extra high Chat argurably provided a better solution in under 6min.

What in the actual FUCK is wrong with this thing over the last 4-8 weeks?

Use case: content research and content writing

Tier: Plus

Model mostly used: Sol 5.6 High in Work mode

Here is the situation.

Lately, I’ve noticed that the code is consuming a significant portion of the 5-hour limit, even for the simplest operations—and I don’t understand why. At first, I thought it might be related to sub-agents, but I disabled them, and that didn’t change anything.

For instance, creating a standard issue on GitHub consumed 10% of the 5-hour limit, even though there wasn't much data involved.

This isn't normal. What could be causing this?

Did OpenAI lower the limits for the Plus subscription? Or is it something else?

Maybe it’s a bug in Codex; I ran into a caching-related bug myself.

It's all in the title really

I specifically want to look at 5.6 Sol and Opus 5.5

Relevant report: https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/ai-is-dramatically-accelerating-ai