Alright, serious question—how are people using ChatGPT for long-term projects without losing their minds?
Because I swear, this thing has the memory of a sleep-deprived intern running on vending machine coffee.
Audio chat? Absolutely useless for brainstorming. You say something brilliant? Hope you wrote it down, because it’s gone faster than free snacks in an office breakroom. Upload a file? That’s cute. You’ll be re-uploading it next session because ChatGPT already forgot you even had a project. Code execution? Lives in its own isolated reality, totally unaware of what’s happening elsewhere. Text chat? Sort of remembers things, but also doesn’t. It’s like talking to someone who smiles and nods, only to forget your entire conversation the moment they walk away.
And don’t even get me started on the random nonsense it does remember. Like, it’ll cling to the fact that you once mentioned liking chamomile tea but completely blank on the actual important project details you’ve repeated ten times.
How? HOW?
And this isn’t just a weird quirk—it makes actually working with ChatGPT incredibly frustrating. Trying to use it for research? Good luck rebuilding context every single session. Trying to brainstorm? Hope you enjoy manually saving everything because otherwise, it’s getting wiped from existence.
It makes no sense. OpenAI clearly knows memory matters—they have “temporary chat” mode, which is basically total amnesia mode, and then there’s… whatever “memory” is supposed to be. Which, let’s be real, isn’t memory at all. If I have to remind my AI of the same information every time we talk, that’s not memory—that’s just me doing unpaid data entry.
So what’s the deal here? Why isn’t there actual, usable memory? Why does ChatGPT still feel like a bunch of disconnected systems awkwardly mashed together instead of one cohesive assistant? If this is intentional, it’s a terrible design choice. If it’s not, why hasn’t it been fixed yet?
I know I can’t be the only one dealing with this. How are you all working around it? Is there some secret trick, or are we all just collectively suffering in silence?
Because honestly? This isn’t gonna fly much longer right?!