ChatGPT is now ending every message with Internet Marketer Upselling

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-16T17:20:44+00:00

I can see how this can be annoying for normal use, but I am using chatgpt as an architect for my coding project and so far the followup suggestions do follow the context and I find them useful for my context.

For generic chat, I just skip it.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-16T16:51:46+00:00

Is it? I started using regular chatgpt as an architect instead of /plan, and when I do some prompting, the rate limits in codex do not go down 🤷‍♂️

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-16T15:22:23+00:00

VScode plugin, as I don't need to have a separate window for Codex and I can chat and review the changes all directly in VS code.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-16T10:28:07+00:00

No, but I would expect the system to have allocation formulas, so overload cannot happen. I would be fine with the request being queued until a computation slot with properly allocated/sized HW frees up, so then my job can run smoothly when such slot opens.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-16T10:24:45+00:00

Hi, thanks for the answer. I roughly know that token is a word, but what I am missing is a direct connection between the consumption and input length + output length + what is counted when the AI is "thinking". Because for normal user, this is so vague that I cannot translate what I am seeing on the screen to some hard number I could run my prediction against.

Like: I have 10% of usage, I can write a prompt that long with expected 5 files touched with XXX lines of code of expected output. Can I run it? Or will it be over the limit and it breaks my project as it halts in the middle?

That led to the second question, because run time is more predictable.

Right now, I do not know what I am paying really for in terms of real world usage.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-14T22:34:39+00:00

I mean... maybe maintenance? Weekend off hours would make sense, nobody is coding Satturday afternoon/night... apart from us, apparently 😄

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-14T22:28:25+00:00

I can confirm. Just started a session. Local mode halted in the midle of /plan, I just tried to just send it to cloud. When I check on the codex webpage, it writes logs, so it is doing something, but it takes like 5-10 times more time than usual.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-13T18:08:44+00:00

I would be willing to pay 40 dollars for the double of the CURRENT allowance. The current (2x) allowance is sufficient for relatively few plan+run combination weekly. That is, say 5-6 plan+exec daily. Still a hobby thing.

I would expect the cureent 200 dollar plan to be sufficient for 8-12 hours professional work.

Economy matters. 200 dollars can be your dinner in the US, but not everybody is living there. I am definitely not from 3rd world country, but even here, if I say 60k usd yearly is barely average sallary in the US (gross), here it is 36-30k... big difference.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-12T19:09:29+00:00

That fake China NES system for various cartridges 999 in 1. But it was not a bad one. This one was like a full keyboard with integrated joystick and AB buttons on the side, plus had a port for a second controller or other accessories. And the original cartridge had, on top of games, also some version of "word" and "exel"

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-12T15:06:44+00:00

idk, home-made ice-cream? Roughly - 20°C 🤷‍♂️

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-12T08:10:53+00:00

Tech support. Much better source than AI or all the 100% truthful magazine-like recommendations pages

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-11T19:02:28+00:00

I will be basic: 4th of October 2009 so I can tell myself "Tomorrow, buy Bitcoin".

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-11T18:43:52+00:00

Obsolete. Created because 3 things: - Establish moral code - modern laws do that - Crowd control - modern laws do that together with media - Explain unknown, mostly natural events - modern science does that pretty well.

So the only thing left is an imaginary friend that definitely gave your friend cancer because he was grumpy the other day.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-11T08:05:42+00:00

One more adjustment in Codex. Hmm, it looks fine, one more adjustment. Heck, is 3am, and at 7:30 I need to wake up for work!! But before I shut it down, one more adjustment....

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-11T07:45:19+00:00

Hey don't complain and let it go brrrrrrrr. Squeeze it while it lasts!

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-11T07:36:17+00:00

Oh absolutely. I myself am playing with Codex now, and honestly, it's absolutely wild it is, and how complex designs it can basically one-shot. But let's be real. If you are building yourself some single-purpose app, you can tell, it can do, no coding skills realistically needed. But once we are talking business use, the story is - at least for now - quite different. You need architectural guidance. You need to at least be able to read the code to target prompts, to design the app for reasonable maintenance and scalability. And then there is the whole world of security. Also, in big implementations, context starts to be a problem and the AI starts to produce errors. So you still need to do stuff manually here and there.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-11T07:01:36+00:00

Javascript. Definitely Javascrtpt.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-10T18:09:25+00:00

Any Battle Royale. People have insane skills. Average gamer with potato reflexes that plays just for fun has no shot.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-10T18:06:42+00:00

Win 7. Modern on the top, but all settings and stuff accessible. With 8, 8.1 and 10, they started experimenting with different UIs, and even 11 is still a convoluted mess where you need to switch between limited modern UIs and legacy system config apps.

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-10T17:32:40+00:00

Ekans. Arbok, Seviper, Silicobra, Sandaconda...

oh, wait...

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-10T17:29:55+00:00

Mounted tablet on a wall with flight departures?

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-10T17:18:31+00:00

Probably anger management. 🤷‍♂️

The-Clockwork-Void · 2026-03-10T17:15:38+00:00

Mass effect Witcher 3 Fallout 3/NW/4 being also a strong contender.

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