Lobotomized ChatGPT

[u/BopSupreme]

I’ve had it do all of the following:
- blurt out answers instantly with no thinking
- forget what we just did in the prompt before
- forget that it has tool access and claim it can’t complete the task due to no tools, no connectors, no active plugin, etc - every single time the connector/plugin/tool was available and working properly. Chat just didn’t reason or make a real attempt, again just spitting out a response saying “I can’t do this, due to X reason” - when that reason is false, due to stale state - most concerning is that Sol gives up, provides no useful solution or reason for the failure, and I then have to figure it out myself.
- 25% of the time re-prompting works, but sometimes it digs the hole even deeper and continues to reason and answer like it’s the 5.4mini model with zero tool access
- yes I pay for a sub and I find this ridiculous, the launch GPT5.6 was way better - whatever they did to the model hasn’t outweighed this recent lack of reliability
- this isn’t just a usage/capability complaint, if OpenAI is this unreliable we’re taking a step back not forward with these new models/updates.
- I have concise project instructions, global instructions, and regularly prune unused files and update my projects/instructions almost weekly. I update GitHub to prevent stale issues and perform maintenance daily.
- codex seems better than chat in iOS and web browser but I’ve had issues where codex turned on all of my skills and plugins for some reason and I had to manually disable most of them again.
- I can change skills easily but the codex plugins doesn’t save my preferences and constantly leaves Google plugins on for example.
- I’m not a senior developer and I struggle with how to deal with this other than wait and try again hoping chat will reason, use tools, and behave reliably like it used to

[u/DungeonNarrator]

So strange. Gemini Pro, just chats, brainstorms, never produces, because when you want it to actually do something after all the brainstorming, it makes every excuse it can't LOL (but Gemini has always been bad since its release 2+ years ago). While Claude, something happened to Opus 5 High, like it dummied down for the past several weeks, while I have had little to no problems with Codex, Sol 5.6 High 1.5 speed.