I Used ChatGPT 10–11 Hours a Day for a Year. Now I’m Ready to Leave

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OpenAI: you are about to lose one of your heaviest users.

I have used GPT 10–11 hours a day, nearly every day, for the past year. Based on sheer text usage, I would be shocked if I weren’t among the most intensive individual users of this product.

And for the first time, I am seriously considering giving up on ChatGPT.

I do not want to leave. That is what makes this so devastating.

GPT used to multiply my ability to work. Now I spend my day correcting it, repeating context, restoring forgotten decisions, and stopping it from derailing simple tasks.

Today, a test that should have taken roughly ten minutes became a 70+ minute disaster because the model repeatedly lost the objective, invented unnecessary work, and forgot corrections almost immediately.

This isn’t an occasional bad answer anymore. The models have become functionally unusable for the kind of serious work I built my life around them to do.

I can select “High” reasoning. I can write perfect instructions. I can correct the mistake explicitly. It no longer matters. Five turns later, the reasoning is gone.

I am now looking at Claude—not because I want another AI, but because OpenAI may have left me no choice.

Think about what that means.

A user who voluntarily spent 10–11 hours every day inside ChatGPT for a year is reaching the point where using ChatGPT hurts productivity more than it helps.

If that user is ready to leave, this is not a minor quality regression. Something is catastrophically wrong with the product.

Stop shipping around the problem.

Fix the intelligence. Fix the reasoning continuity. Fix the context failures.

I don’t need more features.

I need ChatGPT back.

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Fully agree. When it works, it can be truly brilliant. But it’s like rolling a die where rolling a 1 or a 6 gets you excellence, a 2 or a 5 gets you workably satisfactory, and a 3 or a 4 gets an absolute disaster. It used to be one roll per chat instance, but now it’s every damned prompt.

For me it’s the fact they don’t come out and say there is a problem, what the problem is, what they’re doing to fix it, and a rough estimate of when it will be fixed. Without that, like you, many of us are feeling wet can no longer trust it, especially for important work.