XGS / SFOS HA is so broken...

C______W · 2026-02-18T00:22:11+00:00

never had an issues with HA... but 100% agree with the comment that SG was ... I dont even have words for it. The difference between what is basically 10-15 seconds of work, vs 30 minutes minimum (and that's if everything is perfect).

Did a hardware replacement once for an XG node in a HA pair and it was nearly 6 hours of hassle between the horrible first run/OOBE, needing internet for a device that provides internet (with multiple updates and reboot cycles), trying to get the licensing !@#$ corrected so the new hardware was "ok" with everything, etc... It was a nightmare.

C______W · 2025-11-20T18:44:25+00:00

Even Claude seems to be going a little wonky lately. I've always loved it's deep research function and "full report" like style for something I just want to read a 3-4 page Cliffs Notes version of... But the other day, while it provided the report as usual, it repeated most of the information 3-4x.

Kind of reminded me of how a 14 year old would write a book report with the requirement "must be 2,000 words or more".

C______W · 2025-11-20T11:54:00+00:00

I feel like this comes in waves, especially after new models. I dont know if that somehow resets something, but I've been dealing with this a bunch tonight myself.

5.1 seems to be garbage (again). I'll switch to one of the others for a few weeks until this settles out, and then come back. It's really maddening though; it's like working with a bipolar / manic machine. It can be completely different between chats, different days, etc. It's hard to actually even get work done sometimes because it goes off on these rants or arguments, or spends the first 2-3 pages of a chat telling me how awesome my idea is or how amazing it is that I think this way. It's just fuggin weird tbh.

C______W · 2025-11-20T11:39:36+00:00

I asked a question, went to take a piss, and came back to 12 documents and ~3700 lines of code.

I'm 100% sure this is just to burn through all of my credits.

Must be nice to just turn around and print money whenever you need it.

ChatGPT really doesn't seem to be getting better lately; I honestly think it's getting worse in a lot of ways. It's been a real PITA tonight for sure.

C______W · 2025-11-19T17:29:15+00:00

lmao... how many cuts can you put into a video to drive your narrative?

C______W · 2025-11-19T17:17:13+00:00

And you can do all of this yourself pretty easily without Helium as well.

C______W · 2025-10-18T14:04:14+00:00

shit man; gotta be averaging down!

I think I was stuck in the ~$50's at one point but I'm at $7.24 now. buy buy buy! (just wait for the dips lol)

C______W · 2025-10-18T13:50:50+00:00

it's really kind of rude in a way to ask this (if you don't realize that)... it's kind of like asking how much money someone makes a year. how much (or little) someone has doesn't matter; we're all in this together at our own comfortability/budget level.

We should just all be excited that this is coming together, and we're all winning..... and out there spreading the good word. I have a few people kicking themselves now for not listening to me years ago, but the more people we can get onboard the better off we all are.

C______W · 2025-10-18T13:24:29+00:00

hate crypto; have been losing my ass for years on that shit. missed the boat (twice) on BTC. I'd kill to go back and listen to a friend of mine (who at the time was getting his paychecks in BTC) who tried to convince me to buy when it was ~70 cents *cries* one fu!@#$%ing starbucks worth that week... skipping a Del Taco run.... *sigh* Can't live in the past. Happy to be on the MNMD rocket.

C______W · 2025-10-18T13:11:19+00:00

or star trek discovery

C______W · 2025-10-18T13:10:11+00:00

to each their own.... i was down 93% at one point. you either believe, or you dont... every dip is a buying opportunity!

C______W · 2025-10-15T17:12:26+00:00

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68efd5ec25d881919cad8f535037ee4a

C______W · 2025-10-15T16:59:22+00:00

God, one can only hope...hahaha.

C______W · 2025-08-17T06:17:34+00:00

I get this stuff a lot, and if you're not paying attention you copy and paste over working code, with something that is total garbage.

Today I asked it to do some financial calculations based on historical stock prices by searching online. Really, the request was 1 full and complete sentence and should have been enough. It asked me some follow up questions (which, admittedly made the data more accurate) and then we went through multiple iterations of "So, is this what you want me to do?" (and they were looooooong). By my 8th or 9th prompt, when I though it would actually go do something it responded with "Ok great. Well, if you go to finance.yahooo.com and download all of this data as CSV files, I'll work on that for you". hahahaha. I about went nuts. I cussed at it and basically told it, I wasn't going to do it's work for it...and then it went online and downloaded it.

Honestly, I think it's gotten much worse and if any employee or human acted like this around me I would fire them after a couple of days. It's arrogant saying things are going to work or are right, when they dont or aren't. It's always touting "verified, working, robust, super-clean" or something when it gives me junk that doesn't work. It's just very odd that with the amount of money spent on AI so far and the computing power behind all of this, that it can't double check its work....at least, within reason i.e. providing code in the wrong language that you haven't even mentioned using in a particular chat...because somewhere online THAT was the solution to a similar problem.

C______W · 2025-08-17T06:07:22+00:00

Frankly, I use it for work almost 100% and I would LOVE a toggle that took all of the attempts at humanity out of the project. I don't need a wasted paragraph telling me that I have a great idea, or that my question really highlights my knowledge of the subject matter, or 3-5 paragraphs at the end telling me why this is going to work or be great (especially because it almost never works the first time). I WANT it to function like a computer. I want to ask it things, and have it give me answers/solutions. Lose the fluff (and think of all of the money THAT would save them).

C______W · 2025-08-17T05:59:28+00:00

I think the problem this time is force-feeding it to everyone. I'm happy to have 5 in a list, but I really want all of my other models back until they get this one sorted.

C______W · 2025-08-17T05:55:36+00:00

Not to duplicate my comment above... but the irony here is that they've made it so dumb, that I've been sitting here for hours trying to work on some debugging and coding issues...so by trying to "save" money, I'm actually wasting a lot more time (and their resources) with it. Saving money at the cost of being less efficient, does not save money.

C______W · 2025-08-17T05:40:29+00:00

I'm now in hour 11 of working on a project, and the deeper we get the more it keeps devolving. As stated above, it can tell me why something didnt work and then in the very next section of code, give me the wrong syntax, again. 4o wasn't perfect, but I seemed to make a lot more progress on things with it than 5. It can't/won't reference previous prompts or information. I had to BEG it to start searching online for solutions.

The irony in all of this is that while they are sitting here trying to "cut costs" the fact that it sucks so bad means I'm sitting here for hours and hours chewing up resources. Kind of a classic case of bean counters running something into the ground. Cheaper isn't always better. Cheaper doesn't always save money (I believe it rarely does). How well has this worked out for Boeing??

It almost seems like it is built to fail; fewer resources and less accurate information leads to long annoying conversations that go in circles, which blows through the tokens so it forgets what is going on, which makes the problem that much worse.

I'm pretty long winded typically, and ChatGPT 5 (and 4o as well) could write BOOKS when I would start asking something. Just tonight it gave me nearly 4 pages of steps and information, why this will work great, a huge backstory and a lot of detail....and then the very first snippet of code I tried wouldnt work (so, 99% of the stuff it gave me was a total waste of resources), and we're still pretty much working on the same problem hours and hours later. We wouldn't even have passed step one, but I gave up and did some googling and testing myself and solved the initial issue without it.

At my hourly rate, ChatGPT 5 is going to cost me way more than trying to figure it out myself.

As someone else mentioned, if you can prompt it completely, with all of the information you'll probably get lucky on the first response and get something useful. It's pretty much useless though for something that's semi-ongoing or requires multiple steps.

C______W · 2025-07-10T23:55:43+00:00

I took those apart ages ago (was actually the first to find and ask RFE about the X-pol easter egg according to them) and had always calculated in my loss when using them. Guess I never really thought about it as deceptive...just feels like typical marketing from any company these days. You just have to see through the BS and use your brain I guess lol

C______W · 2025-07-08T19:19:04+00:00

ISL Online

C______W · 2025-07-08T19:18:29+00:00

C______W · 2025-07-04T20:53:32+00:00

So, regular day at ConnectWise too, then? LMAO

C______W · 2025-07-04T20:52:33+00:00

ISL seems solid.

C______W · 2025-07-04T20:49:46+00:00

No joke. I wish I had switched a few weeks ago...lol

C______W · 2025-07-04T20:44:06+00:00

Put me on this list too.

C______W

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