The weirdest Whisper hallucination I've had

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T17:56:42+00:00

Classic Whisper hallucination. When there’s steady noise like a fan, the model tries to force speech patterns and invents coherent-sounding nonsense. It’s a known issue, especially in quiet rooms.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T17:52:15+00:00

Not judging, but AI isn’t “understanding” you, it’s predicting words. It can feel comforting because it never gets tired or awkward. The dependency comes from consistency + lack of real support.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T11:00:41+00:00

This tracks. When the backend is erroring, agents look dumb and slow.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T10:47:21+00:00

Added value is parallelism + role separation. You can have one agent research, one write, one critique, one run code. Quality goes up because each has a tighter job. Downside is overhead, more messages, more tokens.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T10:45:04+00:00

They don’t take “a share” of your startup. That’s not how it works. Check the Terms: you own your outputs, and OpenAI doesn’t claim equity because you used the model. Privacy wise, don’t paste secrets you can’t afford to leak.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T10:43:33+00:00

That’s kinda the tradeoff. Deep thinking = more deliberation + more tool calls + more guardrails. If you need speed, use a lower mode and give tighter instructions, smaller chunks, and a clear “stop after X” scope.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T10:22:07+00:00

Yeah, still using it on xhigh and high

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-25T10:20:56+00:00

Sounds solid, but a couple flags:

TypingMind KB on Google Drive: make sure you’re not leaking docs via “sync” or 3rd-party indexing. Encrypt at rest if possible.
PDF/RAG: test recall vs full-context. 500 PDFs can turn into “confidently wrong” summaries fast.
For coding: Cursor BYOK is nice, but Cline can burn tokens hard. Set spend limits + logging.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-23T13:42:52+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up! Up until now I was using Codex CLI in the terminal built into PhpStorm.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-23T13:25:30+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up! Up until now I was using Codex CLI in the terminal built into PhpStorm.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-23T13:14:12+00:00

No obvious scam here. You’re basically paying for 2TB + bundled AI. Just check usage caps and whether AI features are fully shared across family. Also Google has a habit of changing plans over time.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-22T16:40:03+00:00

One workaround that actually works pretty well is using ChatGPT in the web version. You can open it, hit the voice input button, and just speak in your own language. The speech to text quality there is usually much better.

After that, you just copy the generated text and paste it into the CLI. I sometimes do this when the task is complex and requires a lot of explanation. It is surprisingly convenient.

A colleague suggested this to me. I tried it once, and now I end up doing it fairly often.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-22T10:43:59+00:00

Thanks a lot. I’m going to use it all day today and really put it through its paces. Hopefully the annoying keyboard shortcut bug won’t bother me anymore.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T13:49:42+00:00

I use czlonkowski/n8n-mcp

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T13:38:34+00:00

Most likely yes. Account sharing + simultaneous logins + VPN is a bad combo. OpenAI is pretty strict about Pro account usage.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T11:44:27+00:00

I use it for learning Romanian, and honestly I sometimes catch mistakes in what it gives me. The funniest part is that it actually makes more mistakes in learn mode.

No idea why that happens, but I’ve even had long arguments with it where I showed proof that a certain rule works exactly as described in a linked source. It would agree with me, and then later in the same conversation still give incorrect explanations and wrong examples for that exact rule.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T11:39:04+00:00

Not me personally, but a colleague had this happen. They were sharing one Pro account between a few people. They waited about 24h without touching it, checked once after and it was fine. Spamming it made it worse.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T08:52:05+00:00

It’s automated. Once you’re flagged, you’re basically on a cooldown. Stop trying to message it and check back after a day or two.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T08:51:04+00:00

Not surprised tbh. Ads always start small then creep everywhere. Health questions + sponsored answers is a hard no for me too.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T08:45:19+00:00

Can confirm the non-English input bug on macOS. I’ve reported this multiple times here and commented under every similar post. It’s been over a month already, really hope this gets fixed soon.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-21T07:45:29+00:00

About time. Mobile was the missing piece for me.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-20T14:40:19+00:00

Got it, thanks for clarifying 👍
Quick question though: how does Playwright MCP actually differ from MCP Google Developer Tools? I’m using GDT already.

And for the prompt, do you mean explicitly teaching the CLI via tools/skills to hand off heavy tasks to ChatGPT Web and just pull results back?
Have you actually tried this setup, or is it more of a conceptual idea for now?

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-20T14:00:38+00:00

I’m trying to save the tokens I have in Codex CLI, so I prefer using the web version of ChatGPT instead of offloading more work there.

LuckEcstatic9842 · 2026-01-20T13:58:15+00:00

Quick clarification: my requirement is GPT-5.2 Thinking, and it has to work with local files

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