“Power User Use Case: 100-Memory Limit Is Hindering Relational AI Potential

[jhall]

The 100-Memory Limit is Holding Back What ChatGPT Could Become

I’m a long-time Pro user of ChatGPT—an attorney, author, and strategist who uses this system daily across complex, interconnected projects: book writing, litigation support, music production, and an evolving framework I call Spock OS—a persistent, relationship-based assistant model.

I recently hit the 100-memory limit, and it’s not just inconvenient. It’s disorienting. I’m now forced to delete important memories just to move forward. It’s like giving my co-pilot a lobotomy every time I want to add a new flight path.

To be clear: I don’t expect unlimited memory for everyone. I understand the concerns about safety, performance, and misuse. But I also know this system is being marketed as a personalized, growing assistant. That promise breaks down when memory is capped without options to:

• Expand memory tiers for power users
• Export or archive memories
• Participate in a memory beta program

If we’re building true AI partnerships—ones that grow, learn, and evolve—then memory can’t be treated like a scratchpad.

I’ve written a formal appeal (shared privately with OpenAI) and have reached out via LinkedIn to the product team. But I’m posting here to ask:

• Are others running into this wall?
• Would you support a tiered memory system or export capability?
• Is OpenAI considering a future model where relational depth isn’t reset every time we grow?

I’m grateful for what this tool can do. But I believe it could be so much more—if it were allowed to remember not just what we say, but who we are.

If anyone from the product team is reading: I’d be honored to have a conversation about what memory could become when users aren’t treated as temporary.

—John E. Hall,
Everettehalljr@gmail.com

[ReliefpfeileR]

wait,so it is 100 entries not the amount of characters in them?
Not a character / word or token limit?

That opens up vast options for compression.
I often have 3 entries stating more or less the same (with slight variations / nuances).
If the limit is the number of entries, it would make totally sense to delete these three and let a GPT craft a new, combined, entry with it, right?

And also, if there is no character Limit, that means my previous approach at compression (saying more with less words, possibly invoking japanese sigils) is ultimately completely unnecessary.

Thank you, that saved me time - now I will not waste money searching in the wrong direction.

and yeah @Open Ai: The GPTs explain to you “it is virtually unfillable!” and then you hit the quote after a month or so - 3 Memories per day that GPTs craft about you is absolutely realistic.
Why tell them “just tell the human it is virtually endless”?
Did you never have customers that stayed for more than 100 memory entries before?