# ChatGPT Keeps Breaking During Long-Running Tasks **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs\ **Tags:** chatgpt\ **Created:** [November 7, 2026, 9:37am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-keeps-breaking-during-long-running-tasks/1413783 "2026-11-07T09:37:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dot](https://community.openai.com/u/dot)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 9:37am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-keeps-breaking-during-long-running-tasks/1413783/1 "2026-11-07T09:37:09Z")
I am a paying ChatGPT subscriber, and I am extremely frustrated with how unreliable the product has become. I use ChatGPT for serious, multi-step work involving research, software development, document analysis, and long-running projects. Recently, conversations have repeatedly become unusable or interrupted while work is in progress. This is not just an occasional inconvenience. It is seriously damaging my productivity. **The problems I am experiencing:** 1. Conversations repeatedly fail or become unusable during extended tasks. 2. Work is interrupted before the task is completed. 3. I have to open new conversations and reconstruct the previous working context. 4. Sometimes the new conversation encounters similar problems. 5. Repeated interruptions create unnecessary work, duplicated effort, and significant loss of productivity. The most frustrating part is that I am spending more and more time managing ChatGPT failures instead of doing the actual work. **I want OpenAI to investigate and fix the underlying reliability issues, not just offer generic troubleshooting advice.** ---
**Author:** ![OpenAI\_Support](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/openai_support/32/561845_2.png) [@OpenAI\_Support](https://community.openai.com/u/OpenAI_Support)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-keeps-breaking-during-long-running-tasks/1413783/2 "2026-11-08T17:20:53Z")
Hey @dot, Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm sorry for the repeated interruptions you've been facing, especially when working on research, development, document analysis, and other long-running tasks. I understand how frustrating it can be when conversations become slow, unresponsive, or difficult to continue. In the meantime, here are a few suggestions that may help: - **Use Projects:** Keep related chats, files, and instructions organized in one place so you can continue your work across separate conversations. - **Start a new chat:** For longer conversations, consider summarizing important progress and continuing in a new chat. - **Try another browser or private window:** This can help identify whether the issue is browser-related. - **Save important work:** Keep copies of critical outputs and project milestones to avoid losing progress. Could you please clarify whether your conversations freeze, stop generating responses, display an error, or become inaccessible? Also, does this happen only in longer conversations or in newly created chats as well? If the issue continues, please reach out to [OpenAI Support](https://help.openai.com) through the chat bubble and share the affected conversation URLs, approximate timestamps, error screenshots, and relevant technical details privately. This will help the team investigate further. You may also find these Help Center articles useful: - [Using Projects in ChatGPT](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-projects-in-chatgpt) - [Troubleshooting ChatGPT Error Messages](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7996703-troubleshooting-chatgpt-error-messages) Please avoid sharing personal information, account details, or sensitive conversation content on the public Community Forum. I appreciate your patience and hope these suggestions help improve your experience! ~SenSei ---
**Author:** ![kkriper07](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kkriper07](https://community.openai.com/u/kkriper07)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-keeps-breaking-during-long-running-tasks/1413783/3 "2026-11-08T23:57:23Z")
I’m experiencing a related failure as a paying subscriber. This first began for me on August 21, and I have been reporting and documenting continuity problems since then under Support case #17117719 Today it happened again inside an active conversation in a Project while I was working on a real, sensitive task. The conversation did not freeze, stop generating, or display an error. ChatGPT kept responding and retained some broader context, but began asking me for information we had already discussed in that same conversation. It returned to an earlier part of the work and could no longer help carry forward the plan we had developed. The earlier messages remained visible to me. I asked the assistant about the change, and it acknowledged that its responses had become repetitive and less analytical. I preserved screenshots of the sequence and am adding this incident to my existing Support correspondence which has gone nowhere. I was already using a Project. Starting a new chat where there is no continuity, and reconstructing the work does not address why usable context was lost during an active exchange. Please investigate this form of interruption alongside freezes and visible errors, and connect this report with the case I have been pursuing since August.