ChatGPT's Agents feature feels fundamentally reckless to me.
ChatGPT's Agents feature feels fundamentally reckless to me. Their approach to prompt injection is basically: tell the model to really, really, focus on not ...
Topic: ChatGPT
208 mentions · 168 chunks · 76 episodes
30.8× distinctiveness vs baseline
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3.0x burst in 2025 Q3
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- ChatGPT appears in 168 chunks across 76 episodes, from 2024-01-29 to 2026-10-05.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/5/25 (2025-05-05), with 6 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with OpenAI, memory feature, and Claude, while by chunk count it sits between Google and Meta; its yearly rank moved from #13 in 2024 to #7 in 2026.
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I'm optimistic about LLMs potential for humanity, and pessimistic about the slippery slope ChatGPT is on.
...tic about LLMs potential for humanity, and pessimistic about the slippery slope ChatGPT is on. Not where ChatGPT is, but the drain it will circle. Every hyperscale product over time is forced to fall down the slippery slope of engagement...
ChatGPT's answers feel to me like being served up a personalized Axios article.
ChatGPT's answers feel to me like being served up a personalized Axios article. More formatting than substance. Punchy and "simple" while obscuring nuance. P...
How much you trust a suggestion is partially due to what context the system is drawing on.
...s a big determinant in how good the results are. This is one of the reasons the ChatGPT dossier memory feels off to me. You can't inspect the context to say, "include this, not that". The chat is append only, not coactive. You can imagin...
Some examples of sycosocial relationships with LLMs:
...th LLMs: People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" Examples in this Ezra Klein interview.
We're in the portals era of AI.
... the web bigger. "As you think about the evolution of AI and the form factor of ChatGPT … we might still be in Yahoo directory."
Are you pair-programming or code reviewing the LLM's code output?
...ol to help you think less? This is what is called cognitive debt. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot.
ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot. Is chat really all there is? Chat is a feature, not a paradigm. Which would you choose between 1) a product that's only a Chat...
Every built a Diplomacy game for LLMs to play.
... play. Gemini generally does well. Claude refuses to lie, and thus loses often. ChatGPT o3 often wins because it is very happy to betray its collaborators. The things that LLMs are selected for and trained for matter, especially when you...
I used ChatGPt to identify an odd piece of hardware in my post-war AirBnB in Manhattan this week.
I used ChatGPt to identify an odd piece of hardware in my post-war AirBnB in Manhattan this week. That could have never worked in Google Lens, but it worked great i...
Isn't it kind of weird when ChatGPT uses the first person in its answers?
Isn't it kind of weird when ChatGPT uses the first person in its answers? When you talk to a person you'd never say "I'm just talking to a collection of synapses." We can all agree that...
Self perception and self-deception are easy to confuse.
...ne's actions didn't change given they were being recorded. Do we try to impress ChatGPT? Before the memories feature I didn't care. But now I do. An existential risk: human addiction to "therapy" that feels like growth but actually isn't...
This week ChatGPT gaslit me about its memory feature.
This week ChatGPT gaslit me about its memory feature. I started off asking what it knew about me. I had to really twist its arm to get it to give me most of the things...
Consumer businesses tend to be pulled inexorably towards engagement and ads.
...riments and tweaks. Sam Altman today has made it very clear he's against ads in ChatGPT. I asked a collection of plugged in and savvy friends what the chance was that ChatGPT would have something normal users would call ads within the ne...
OpenAI going for vertical integration is like cell phone carriers trying to control what software you can install on devices connected to their network.
...der for other experiences to compete. It will accelerate the aggregation around ChatGPT. Good for OpenAI, bad for everyone else.
ChatGPT's goal is one app to rule them all.
ChatGPT's goal is one app to rule them all. What could possibly go wrong?
OpenAI's implementation of MCP in ChatGPT is limited.
OpenAI's[jz] implementation of MCP in ChatGPT is limited. They only allow a subset of allow-listed MCP instances for certain use cases. This will quickly evolve into a kind of app-store distribut...
MCP is the AI era's OLE.
...this movie ends. If you want to dig in more, I fed my recent Bits and Bobs into ChatGPT's Deep Research and it gave a more in depth report diving into the parallels.
Everyone's talking about how ChatGPT now must retain all logs due to a judge's ruling.
Everyone's talking about how ChatGPT now must retain all logs due to a judge's ruling. Imagine if OpenAI had been in a position where they simply didn't have the logs. But aggregators mu...
Everyone has a bit of ick about ChatGPT being the super-app all of our data is in.
Everyone has a bit of ick about ChatGPT being the super-app all of our data is in. But there's no viable alternatives. For most people, LLMs are a "heck yes" but ChatGPT itself is not a "he...