Hi there,
Just some feedback from someone who has been using ChatGPT and the API since early 2023.
I mostly use ChatGPT to write boilerplate code, regex, and help troubleshoot general programming bugs.
I’ve noticed ChatGPT have intermittent bugs and weird behaviour over the past few months but I’ve been able to work through them. In the past few days, however, it has been completely broken for my programming-related use cases. It just doesn’t work.
A few days ago it started tripping up on some C# code. It would just cut itself off halfway through a code block and then repeat itself over and over again until I interrupted it. I tried starting a new conversation, clearing cache, deleting chat history, nothing helped it just continued to have the same issue:
I thought perhaps it was an isolated case and I ended up working through the code on my own.
The next day I was trying to get it to output a boiler plate React context for a prototype I was working on (this is something it has easily done for me on countless of my projects before.)
Same problem:
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Today I was just trying to get it to write some regex for me, and it started outputting incomplete, weirdly formatted answers that were semi-related to what I asked for:
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Not as bad as the previous bugs, but it still failed on something that it used to be able to do well.
These are just a few examples from the past few days, but to be honest the bugginess of the app has been annoying me for a couple months now. I remember last month having issues where my chat history would just randomly disappear or days where I couldn’t access GPT 4 for some unexplained reason.
ChatGPT used to help me get ahead with my prototypes and side projects - it was like a helpful little assistant saving me hours of coding time per week. I think it’s now at the point where it’s actually costing me hours… on top of the $30 AUD I’m spending on it per month - just doesn’t seem worth it.
I’ll probably be cancelling my subscription at the end of this period if I don’t see any improvements but i’m really hoping I don’t have to!
Kind regards,
Stephen
this is very annoying, it keeps breaking on the word “list”