One thing that I absolutely can’t stand about Chat GPT is that it spits out responses line by line instead of all at once. Unless this is to conserve resources or something, this needs to be optional. It confuses me when reading since it also scrolls down each line and makes it hard to keep track of the words when they are constantly moving. Not to mention it’s a complete waste of time to have to sit and wait for the response to load, which can sometimes take over 10 seconds due to the way the language model writes responses so meticulously.
The second is that I have to periodically click “continue generating” when it writes up code. Sometimes I click it and it doesn’t continue and I have to regenerate the whole thing. I thought it was because of my free plan, so I upgraded and it does the same thing! What is the point of making us have to do that? I have to continuously monitor the tab in order to press that button because I have to wait for it to spit out responses LINE BY LINE. Yes I know you can make a Tamper Monkey script to automate (which I did) this task, but I shouldn’t have to (and it’s glitchy). Again, unless it’s to conserve resources or fight spam, this doesn’t make any sense.
This tool could have been so much better if it didn’t have these features, and instead, adopted new features that make the experience more intuitive. Like conversation search so I don’t have to export my web page into an xml (wtf right?) and then import it using some browser addon to be able to search for something that was said in a conversation. ‘Control+f’ just searches the title of the conversation in the sidebar. I can’t believe that users would have to resort to such a thing in the first place as it is considered a standard to have a search option for nearly all “chat” websites (discord, telegram, facebook, etc.). Without an easy way to search previous conversations (and I have hundreds of them) they become pointless to dig up. What’s funny is that this feature exists on the App but not the desktop browser. Usually apps are more dumbed down but in this case it’s the other way around.