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.

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 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.

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'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.

My Dot simply cannot use Chrome and computer tool use on my connected computer. It works fine if I just use the local Codex. This occurs when I'm using the Dot remotely or even on the connected computer itself. I can't see anything in my settings that would be prevented it.

When I asked my Dot about this, it thought it was possible based on official documentation.

I get these responses when I try to use Chrome or computer tool use: "No node_repl, cua_repl, browser-control, or desktop-control tools exposed", "the runtime is installed; its tools are unavailable to this delegated task", "Blocked: the Computer Use skill is installed, but this session exposes neither its required node_repl/Sky runtime nor any browser-control tool. I therefore could not inspect the computer's Chrome".

I do have a "node_repl" plugin installed on my Codex though under MCPs in the Plugins settings. Dot says it can run local commands on the connected computer though fine.

Has anyone had luck getting this working?

Is it possible to talk to chatgpt starting from zero and to be able to converse in simple japanese used in daily lives? Would chatgpt pro or gemini pro be more suitable for this? Thanks!

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.

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'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

https://preview.redd.it/o26brudwveth1.png?width=1472&format=png&auto=webp&s=56e07d50bced66e2eacb5c7d49d1e6af94814e48

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.

https://preview.redd.it/xcmn88a3xeth1.png?width=1202&format=png&auto=webp&s=ec95aab6b3a5294729f1feb7df01689843565f74

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

https://preview.redd.it/u66ww3laxeth1.png?width=911&format=png&auto=webp&s=72b00e7cf03768bab1d4ee43579c2f68ead88a8e

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.

https://preview.redd.it/bxs4t9qlxeth1.png?width=1013&format=png&auto=webp&s=d4d14d9ea233f18cbef03fe72379d454e847ae0a

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