r/GPT

Hey everyone,

Just need to vent for a second and see if anyone else is running into this.

I’ve been using Codex inside GitHub Copilot for a while now, and honestly, it’s great. It does what I ask, stays out of the way, and helps me speed up my workflow. But recently, I decided to try out the standalone GPT Codex extension, thinking it might give me a bit more control or a different interface to work with.

Wow. What an absolute train wreck.

It feels like they wrapped this thing in so many aggressive, hyper-sensitive guardrails that it’s practically useless for actual development. I’ll be in the middle of a project, trying to debug something or refactor an old script, and the extension just throws me under the bus.

Instead of code, half my queries get hit with preachy, patronizing refusals:

• "I can't do this because of security/policy reasons..."

• "I wouldn't recommend doing that, try this completely unrelated..."

It’s incredibly rigid, and you can’t even nudge or prompt-engineer your way past it. It literally kills my momentum mid-flow.

How did the same underlying tech end up so drastically different? Copilot actually lets me work, while the GPT extension feels like coding with a HR manager breathing down my neck.

I’ve been looking at AI form builders where you describe something in plain text and it generates a full form automatically, like Fillout AI.

Curious how tools like this are usually built behind the scenes.

Do they rely on huge datasets of prompts + completed forms, or is it mostly prompt engineering and structured outputs? Also wondering if this needs fine-tuning or if a smaller model could handle it.

And for apps that let you keep chatting and updating the form, how is that context usually managed technically?

Still learning AI development so just trying to understand the architecture behind these tools.

So I just realized that we no longer have the gpt section where they had gpts made by other people we have just the ‘apps’ tab and it’s only for real companies now who use chatgpt. Am I the only one ??? I’m so frustrated them taking away things that people actually used. iPhone 15

I’ve been working on a project for over a month and had saved a lot of relevant data. Unfortunately, a system error (or similar glitch) created a new branch of conversation that completely replaced a month's worth of brainstorming. Because OpenAI lacks version control or a way to view previous output, I am forced to start from scratch. The chat appears in my history search, but it's inaccessible. I am canceling my subscription.

Ho dato a ChatGPT un prompt per scrivermi una lettera dal futuro.

«Sei me, ma a 70 anni. Guardati indietro, e - basandoti su tutte le conversazioni avute in questo anni - scrivi una lettera al me di oggi, per darmi consigli sul futuro, sia professionali che personali»

Ecco alcune cose utili che mi ha detto:

https://preview.redd.it/1yo0pewv3wzg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=150072e4bfa89effff6d5f39f66666d3543074bf

1️⃣Non rincorrere trend

2️⃣Quando rileggi, chiediti: «Questa frase aggiunge un fatto o solo musica?» 

3️⃣Per YouTube, non fermarti a replicare una struttura che funziona. Nel lungo termine, si rischia di diventare prevedibili. Prova a inserire una deviazione ogni 3 video.

4️⃣ «Difendi il mattino»: tradotto, sa che faccio fatica a svegliarmi presto. Ecco perché suggerisce di non dedicare le prime ore a notifiche, chat o scroll mascherato da lavoro.
  
5️⃣ Il consiglio più bello: «A volte una cosa piccola, sana, redditizia e libera vale più di una grande che ti divora. Non chiederti solo «quanto può diventare grande?» Chiediti: «che vita mi costringe a vivere?»

Se anche voi ci avete provato, condividete qui sotto alcune cose utili che vi ha detto.