I create developer content and tutorials for work, and sometimes I'll sit at my computer for hours trying to come up with a new content idea

And then I'll go a ten minutes walk with a friend or colleague, talk about it and suddenly something clicks

I've noticed that speaking the idea out loud and hearing someone respond is a big part of how I figure it out My best ideas come when I have people around to bounce ideas with

Lately I have been doing something similar with ChatGPT. I use willow Voice for voice input and just talk through whatever Im thinking. sometimes that turns into an hour or two of back and forth

English is my second language, so I sometimes switch between languages when speaking and having it pick up my pronunciation without constantly stopping to fix words help me stay in the conversation and brain dump

Curious whether other people have this too. Do you need to explain a problem to someone before you can work out what you think and what are your hacks around it?

I’ve been using ChatGPT Plus for a while and am considering switching to Claude Pro.

For those who have used both, is Claude actually better as an everyday personal AI assistant? I use AI throughout the day for questions, research, fitness tracking, personal organization, writing, documents, and building projects. I’m curious which platform is better suited to these kinds of personal and productivity use cases.

HERE’S WHAT I PRIMARILY USE CHATGPT FOR:
• Everyday questions and problem-solving: Troubleshooting, explanations, advice, and figuring out how to do things. I increasingly use it as an alternative to Google.
• Fitness and nutrition tracking: Logging workouts, exercises, weights, reps, sets, meals, calories, macros, and progress over time. Ideally, I’d like an assistant that can remember previous entries, identify trends, and make recommendations without requiring me to constantly repeat the context.
• Building apps, tools, and automations: I have limited programming experience but want to use AI to build practical tools, dashboards, and personal tracking systems. How do Claude and Claude Code compare with ChatGPT and Codex for this?
• Research and recommendations: Comparing products, researching purchases, finding restaurants and services, and getting practical recommendations.
• Writing and communication: Drafting and editing emails, professional correspondence, Reddit posts, and other writing. I generally prefer writing that sounds natural and concise rather than overly polished or AI-generated.
• Learning: Understanding investing, economics, current events, business, and other subjects through follow-up questions and explanations.
• Personal planning: Organizing schedules and routines, meal planning, cooking, health and wellness research, and general life planning.
• Documents and productivity: Working with PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and other files to summarize information, extract data, create documents, and organize projects.
• Memory and personalization: ChatGPT has accumulated context about my interests, preferences, workouts, routines, and previous conversations. I value being able to continue where I left off without re-explaining everything.
I primarily use AI on my iPhone, but also use it on my computer.

MY MAIN QUESTIONS:

Would Claude Pro be an upgrade over ChatGPT Plus for these use cases?

How well does Claude handle long-term tracking of workouts, meals, nutrition, and progress?

Is Claude better for building practical apps and tools with limited coding experience? How does Claude Code compare with Codex?

How good are Claude’s memory and personalization across separate conversations?

How do the iPhone experience, integrations, and usage limits compare?

Has anyone switched and found themselves missing important ChatGPT features?

Is running out of usage a fair concern for switching over to Claude?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have used both for personal productivity, tracking, and building things—not just coding or writing.
Would you switch completely, stick with ChatGPT, or use both? If you use both, what do you use each one for?

I have been a subscriber to the $200 Pro tier for some time and I never reached the limit. I am an attorney and basically use it to review documents. Last week, I upgraded to the $500 tier, mainly with the purpose of using the Ultrafast mode.

However, I notice that Astra on Ultrafast consumes the limit too fast, even with a $500 subscription. I currently have 43% of my weekly usage, even though there are still 6 days to go.

Impressive how money-hungry OpenAI has become.

A project that contained probably 100 plus chats disappeared today. I can see some chats when I search. I am so upset. Does anyone know what could have gone wrong? I didn’t delete it. I can see some chats and even under the images the images that were in the project.

Adding information;

The project was pinned. Now it shows one random chat from the project pinned. I can search for the chats and see them. I can also see the folder associated with the project that contains what I uploaded to the project. But the project itself is gone. In addition, the chats from the project are only visible when I search. The most recent chat was yesterday morning, so even if somehow it was removed from the project, it would show in recent chats. In addition when I search for the chats, they show up with just a circle next to them.

I often do GPT code to build dashboards recently and it’s taken control of my computer when I get stumped, however, last night while on my computer, I noticed that my GPU usage was up and discovered a bit miner app on my computer, just mining in the background. Does anybody know on here if it’s a small chance that GPT happened to make this or if the Trojan got passed on to me within my home network? So I decided to wipe my computer, however I need to go back to the other computers and do a deep scan on what had happened in my network at home. Thoughts? I’m always skeptical if it does anything that I told it not to on its own.

I am about to lose my mind.

EVERY SINGLE EVENING around like 6 PM to 11 PM German time, ChatGPT completely chokes the moment I try to open an old/existing conversation!

Instead of my chat I just get slapped with this useless banner in image "Could not load this ChatGPT conversation. Try again."

Its driving me insane because starting a brand new chat? Works fine, opening the EXACT SAME old chat tomorrow morning at 9 AM? Works instantly, opening it at 8 PM? NOPE.

IT GIVES ME THE SAME ERROR EVERY EVENING...

Clear cache doesnt work. Switching browsers, nope. Phone app/Web on Mac OR Windows? Same garbage

Is anyone else in Europe dealing with this absolute nightmare every night or is OpenAI just personally hating on my account??????????????????????????

If you spend most of your workday in ChatGPT, you've probably noticed that asking ChatGPT for daily prayer times usually produces hallucinated results (it guesses based on server IP location or uses generic solar calculation methods that can be off by 15-20 minutes). At the same time, mobile prayer apps have become increasingly bloated with aggressive tracking and video ads.

To fix this in my daily workflow, I built Muslim Prayer Reminder, a verified ChatGPT plugin (and open-source MCP server) that performs exact astronomical calculations on the fly.

How it works:

• Astronomical Accuracy: Calculates solar zenith angles and declination directly using Jean Meeus astronomical algorithms rather than relying on LLM guesses.
• 12 Calculation Authorities: Supports Umm Al-Qura (Makkah), Muslim World League, ISNA (North America), Diyanet (Turkey), Egyptian General Authority, and others. The plugin always states the exact authority used in its response.
• Zero Privacy Invasions: No user tracking, no phone location permissions, and completely ad-free.

Pairing with ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks:

The most useful way to use this is creating an automated recurring schedule in ChatGPT: 1. Enable the plugin from the official store. 2. Prompt: "Every weekday morning at 7:00 AM, retrieve today's prayer times for [Your City] using [Your Preferred Authority, e.g. Umm Al-Qura or MWL] and format it as a quick reference schedule." 3. ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks will automatically run the check and have your schedule ready when you start working.

Links: - ChatGPT Plugin Store: Muslim Prayer Reminder on ChatGPT - Open Source / Local MCP: GitHub Repository (for Cursor, Claude Desktop, and local agents via npx muslim-prayer-mcp)

Hope this helps anyone looking to streamline their daily routine without ad-heavy phone apps!

Hey everyone! I’m looking for a way to generate short AI videos with a realistic talking avatar, ideally with voice and lip-sync.
I currently have ChatGPT Pro and Claude Pro subscriptions and would prefer not to pay for another service like HeyGen or Higgsfield.
Are there any good free alternatives or ways to achieve this using my existing subscriptions?

Been using 6.1 constantly all week, very slow decreases in usage. Last night over a two hour session I burned through 30%, and was shocked when I got the message I'd run out of usage. I used a reset this morning, did 2 short tasks. 5% gone where it would barely scratch 1% a few days ago. Did I miss something?

Context: I was discussing new user onboarding and hypothetical playbooks that OpenAI should have considered for new users.

Using the new UI update, it created the below interface. I know the bottom states "Illustrative concept, not an existing ChatGPT feature. Select a playbook to explore it in this conversation." but it works so I clicked on troubleshooting.

In the below, I cover:

1. The hypothetical playbook

2. The prompt it submits when I click any option

3. What a playbook section looks like

4. How it customises to the user issue

1. The hypothetical playbook

2. The prompt it submits when I click any option

When I clicked on "Solved a technical problem" it provided a prompt as my response

3. What a playbook section looks like

The next image is fairly large but I did want to cover how detailed this was!

1. Created sections, based on beginner user to start with which makes sense.

2. Provided a workflow with next steps!

3 and 4. Customise the workflow! Is it the printer? the waffle iron? your computer? you can begin the diagnosis and the next chat creates a similar interface to help

4. How it customises to the user issue

I entered some information referencing another thread from months ago I hadn't touch and provided a generic problem. When I pressed the "Begin diagnosis" button it submitted a prompt:

It then looked back in the chat and found the information and references!

Hey, I was grinding LeetCode the other day, using ChatGPT as a tutor, and wanted to track how much time I spent thinking through a problem, writing the algorithm, and debugging.

I could type timestamps manually, but doing that every time gets annoying. I tried a few existing extensions, but couldn’t get them working, so I built my own.

It adds your local date and time at the top of the text messages you send. That gives ChatGPT something concrete to work with when you ask how long you spent between steps.

No ads or trackers, and it’s open source. It runs locally, only accesses chatgpt.com, and sends nothing to me—the timestamp just becomes part of your normal ChatGPT message.

You can install it from Firefox Add-ons. Chrome users can download a ready-made ZIP from GitHub Releases and load it through Developer mode. No build tools needed.

It’s still an early version: stop dictation before sending, and some formatted messages may go unstamped.

Hope someone else finds it useful!

Hi there! I’ve spent the last little while building something that got slightly out of hand.

Tadaa… meet bbn.live

It’s a 24/7 AI-generated TV network. News, sports, markets, weather, debates, entertainment, a sitcom, parody ads, and whatever else the "director" decides should be on TV at that particular moment.

There’s an AI writing room running the network, scheduling segments throughout the day the way an actual TV network would. A "showrunner" is looking at the context across segments to make sure it "makes sense". It pulls from 100+ live news feeds and data sources, decides what’s worth talking about, writes the segments, voices the characters, and broadcasts the whole thing live. It also cuts shorts for the website, selects some to upload to YouTube, and creates thumbnails.

Looking at it now, it’s much more impressive than anything I could have imagined building using AI just a few months ago (and I have build a lot).

The entire app was built using my Claude and ChatGPT Pro subscriptions. A Node server ingests all the feeds and live data, the director decides what airs next, the broadcast page draws the cut-paper characters on canvas, and a pipeline captures the result and streams it to YouTube. It then takes screenshots, records the actual live output, measures audio/video timing, spots things that look or sound wrong, and then fixes them. It also built the deployment setup between my dev and production machines to update the website via Vercel, host video on Cloudflare etc..

At runtime, AI is running the network too. It writes the anchors’ scripts from the actual incoming stories and data and helps rank and select what’s worth covering. The voices come from open-source TTS models running locally on a GPU.

It’s now at a point where I can personally leave it running for quite some time and actually enjoy watching it. Which is either a great sign or completely meaningless, because I have a bad case of “I love every side project I come up with and assume everyone else will too,” while history suggests that’s rarely true. ;-)

So I’d love to get some other eyes on it.

You can watch it at bbn.live, or on the YouTube channel, where I’m running two versions simultaneously. A regular 16:9 broadcast for TVs/desktops and a dedicated vertical stream:

https://www.youtube.com/@watchBBN/streams

While it does cost me some money to keep the whole operation running (around $40/day right now), it's so much fun seeing how far I can push the idea of an AI-generated television network.

To be candid about my inspiration: A while back I stumbled across a post on Reddit about pnn.watch, an AI-8-bit news network. I thought it was cool, but obviously not cool enough for my taste :P 

Edit: Now with viewer questions, which the hosts pick up after a few mins :) (see https://bbn.live/live)

https://reddit.com/link/1x4inep/video/txwfowq4o4vh1/player

I'm a paying ChatGPT Pro subscriber. Since around September 17, 2026, recurring technical failures have repeatedly disrupted my work. It's now October 13, and I still have conversations and projects I cannot reliably access or continue.

Here is what the problem looks like in practice:

- Long-running conversations inside Projects suddenly fail to load. Sometimes I cannot reopen the very thread where I was working.

- GPT-6 Pro and GPT-5.6 Pro responses or longer tasks are interrupted or fail before completion, making it difficult to resume work from the same point.

- Reloading or retrying may briefly restore access, only for another failure to interrupt the next step. Each failure costs time spent reconstructing context, locating previous results, or recreating work.

- My support requests have yet to produce a lasting solution or a clear plan for restoring access to the affected conversations.

OpenAI's own incident history shows how often related parts of the paid service have experienced problems during this period:

- **September 17:** ChatGPT Work tasks could fail to start or run.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M2RC0WHGTX8EHDH7D60JJ7FC

- **September 22:** Elevated ChatGPT Work error rates across Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/xqj8tm81

- **September 23:** Elevated conversation errors affecting Plus and Pro subscribers.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M36RMC01ZFWQ861WYJKC4XE1

- **September 29:** A feature rollout overwhelmed shared network-connection capacity. OpenAI's postmortem says some conversations and tasks could not start, resume, or finish.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3Q4RK1SM4EMK445GGPG7C0N/write-up

- **September 30:** Another official incident recorded elevated error rates for ChatGPT Pro and Plus conversations.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3RDNY37CAPQGRKPBVMNRT4K

- **October 5–6:** OpenAI recorded further errors involving conversations, Work mode, and several other ChatGPT services.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M46G248GGHV9RSAJE82BZY1X

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M47HC9SGHGFPBN44KGC6SKAQ

- **October 8:** OpenAI acknowledged errors affecting conversations, Work, and GPTs for some users in the Asia-Pacific region.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/616df649

These are separate officially recorded incidents, with different possible causes. The ongoing customer experience matters too. On October 9–12, other users were still reporting inaccessible chats, HTTP 429 "Too Many Requests," interrupted response streams, and stuck Work sessions, including after earlier incidents were marked resolved:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTcomplaints/comments/1x1g8el/chatgpt_errors_since_september_27_is_anyone_else/

https://community.openai.com/t/is-anyone-else-experiencing-recurring-chatgpt-loading-failures-stream-errors-and-stuck-tasks/1404071

A status page saying "resolved" should describe a real recovery for the people affected. For some of us, the same practical failures keep returning. We pay for a service that we need to be able to use consistently, especially when our work depends on existing conversations and their accumulated context.

**I propose that affected paid subscribers issue a joint public statement asking OpenAI to:**

1. Explain the recurring conversation-loading, streaming, and project-access failures, and identify which issues are still under investigation.

2. Deliver a lasting fix, restore access to affected conversations wherever possible, and publish meaningful progress updates.

3. Provide case-specific technical support for documented failures, including escalation and clear follow-up rather than repeated generic troubleshooting.

4. Offer fair monetary compensation or billing credits for paid features that were materially unusable, while allowing subscribers to keep their existing plans active.

I want to keep using ChatGPT Pro. I also expect a company charging premium subscription fees to take responsibility when core functionality repeatedly fails over several weeks.

**If you're affected, please share:** your plan, when the problems started, the error messages or symptoms, whether conversations recovered, how much work was disrupted, and what support actually did. Keep private conversation links, payment details, tokens, and identifying information out of public comments.

Would you support a joint statement demanding a reliable fix, a transparent explanation, and meaningful compensation for affected paying users?

I use 6.1 Sol on very high all day

Weekly usage cap is what gets me on the $20 Plan, and the $100 gives me way too much to justify the price.

I was thinking to get another $20 Plus plan, but I'd like to hear what you guys have to say

A transaction export can produce a convincing answer to “How much is left this month?” while leaving out the detail that changes everything.

A transfer between accounts may look like income. A refund may look like regular earnings. An annual bill won’t appear in a three-month export. The arithmetic can be correct and the conclusion still be misleading.

A more useful first step might be to ask ChatGPT to audit the data before it calculates anything:

Identify transfers, refunds, reimbursements, and irregular expenses. List what information is missing. Show which rows support each total. Don’t recommend a spending amount until those questions are resolved.

That still leaves the numbers to verify against the original records.

For people who use ChatGPT with a spreadsheet or a read-only finance connection: what mistakes has it caught, and what has it confidently missed? How do you check the result?

Need help deciding between my next subscribtion moving forward.

Originally, I have been using Claude quite a lot and found it superb when I needed to generate various files. Also, I really liked using the Cowork for my automated tasks. On the other hand, I always viewed GPT as the chatbot which you use only for quick answers.

However, I noticed there has been ton of improvements to GPT in the past months. I also noticed Codex is more capable at taking over my computer and doing tasks than Claude - sometimes I feel I have to babysit Claude and convince it the task was already done in a similar way before.

Was considering wether it would be a good option to cancel my Claude subscribtion and switch to GPT Pro.

Has this always been the case? Is it unlimited like 5.6 sol? And what model of 6 does it use?

I was working on a 10-second product video last weekend, and it was driving me absolutely insane. For me, I just wanted a clean, simple tracking shot. The camera wanders completely out of place, loses focus randomly, or decides to resize the object's proportions halfway through the clip.

I know it is my lazy prompt. It is that my prompt with something like "slow pan right" is just too vague. The video models don't actually know what exactly it means, how slow? How far to the right? so they just start guessing which for me, with each guess, gets further away from what I really wanted. But the more I try to edit it, the worse it gets. So I decided to what every else does, use ChatGPT to draft up my prompt (which arguably takes more time if only I can get it right manually by myself).

This is what I do with GPT-4o and its Advanced Voice Mode: I use it as a technical Director. I just describe the exact pan I want, and have ChatGPT calculate the coordinate arrays, focal lengths, and framing limits. I then feed that trajectory math into MiniMax Design to orchestrate the render.

ChatGPT handles the complex spatial math and outputs hard coordinates, prompt it, and then it forces H3 to follow a locked physical camera path. Not sure how others are doing it, but what other hacks and tricks do you use with Chatgpt that helps optimize the production workflow? accuracy?

Building an app looking for feedback..

I made a way to connect ChatGPT and have it design and update widgets on your iPhone

Would you use this type of thing? Personal / business use cases you might find interesting?

I’d love to know what you think

Thanks!

Graphic Designer here. Aspiring clothing brand sidehustle.

I don’t know how to utilise my $20 subscription. Im usually asking it to gimme this gimme that, but it feels like i could be doing this with the free model. Yes i utilise the image uploads and renders but i donno man i feel i could do more. Spending this on a monthly and not making any profit off pf it sucks i cant lie

My knowledge on coding is very low and i tried the whole teach me coding thing but nothing is sticking. I wanna be able to guild websites for clients, want a more in-depth knowledge with coding and try and marry that with my design skills as well as marketing.

Maybe I’m overwhelming myself with a lot of wants? To those very efficient with openAI. Can you suggest ways i could make my subscription work for me? Lol i somehow feel like I’m typing out a prompt here in the comment its so crazy

On all desktop applications and web apps of ChatGPT, my Dot's computer screen is shown to me but it's not live streamed. I can send an interaction, like a mouse click or typing, but the effect of my interaction doesn't actually appear—the live stream is stuck on the initial frame. It's not until I close the connection and re-open it do I see the effects of my interaction.

The interaction with my Dot's computer is only working properly on my iOS device.

I run an AI-made radio drama channel (mystery stories based on real crimes). Every episode gets about 40 illustrations plus a poster/thumbnail, all generated with ChatGPT's image generation. It took a lot of failed attempts to make it look like the same show from one episode to the next, so here's what actually worked in case it helps someone.

Characters: before any scene gets drawn, ChatGPT makes a character sheet for each person: three full-body poses and two face close-ups on a plain background. That sheet then goes back in as a reference image for every scene that character is in. That's what keeps the face and clothes the same across 40 images. Recurring characters (the detective, his friend) have permanent sheets I reuse in every story.

Places: same idea. Each location gets an empty "plate" first, with no people in it, and every scene in that place uses it as a reference so the room doesn't change between shots.

Scenes: short, specific prompts, three people maximum per image, and the era spelled out. Early on it dressed everyone in 1950s clothes no matter when the story was set. It's one image at a time with a per-minute limit, so a full episode takes about an hour.

Thumbnails: ChatGPT paints the whole poster, including the title and a one-line tagline. Text is the weak spot. It sometimes invents extra words (once a gallery name that appeared nowhere in the story), so the prompt now says no other readable words anywhere in the art, and every thumbnail gets looked at before it goes up. If the text is off, we repaint it.

What still goes wrong: hands, faces drifting a bit when a character is small in the frame, and the occasional scene that's just "close enough" and has to be regenerated.

Two questions for people who've done this a lot:

1. Is there a more reliable way to get exact text on a poster without regenerating it several times?

2. Any tricks for keeping faces consistent when a character is small or far from the camera?

The writing, voices and music are AI too, and I say so on every video. If you want to see how it all turns out, the whole archive is one playlist that updates itself, newest first: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaEfFa7GFcw0