OpenAI says its AI cracked problems researchers have been working on for decades.

The computer science one is especially interesting. Researchers have long assumed certain problems get impossibly time consuming as they get bigger, even with better computers. The AI reportedly proved that a major assumption behind those limits is wrong. People now have to rethink how quickly those problems could be solved. P vs NP is still open bt this shakes up the surrounding research.

For physics, we have equations that predict how particles behave incredibly well. Proving those equations have solid mathematical foundations has been a whole other struggle. They’re claiming a major breakthrough there too.

And in math, they reportedly solved a decades-old problem about how waves concentrate... whichh takes several other major unsolved problems down with it.

Experts still have to work through these results so it's best to fully wait for humans to confirm these findings but if they do end up hold up... AI may have moved the boundaries of what humans know in three different fields.

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It's incredibly generous... like the amount of value you get from just $20 a month is insane. The app itself gives you an incredible usage limit, all the image generation, plus all the models available via API with just the login... The pretty generous rate limits as well.

For context, I've been subscribed since late 2023. I also work on different harnesses and use subagent delegation systems, however I just can't give up ChatGPT Plus.

Edit: I generally made this post as a casual “hot take” but people are contributing extremely impressive use cases, tips and tricks. Beautiful.

Edit 2: a tip from me to always make the best of your use limits, have a scheduled task do any kind of job every hour 24/7 that would consume about 1-2% of the usage limit so the usage limit reset counter starts while you’re away. Then when you use it, it’s not 5 hours but more like 3 to 1 hours for the reset. (I hope this makes sense)

I use chatGPT Pro @ about $120 a month. All relatively good until today, GPT-6 . all of them, seems like was updated today, and the last one was replaced by a drunk AI. Forgetful, slow AF, and sometimes even stupid. WTH?

I use both ChatGPT and Claude pretty heavily, especially for building projects, researching things, and brainstorming ideas.

I’ve noticed that sometimes I get into this weird, almost manic or overstimulated state where I feel like I constantly need to be doing something with AI.

There’s this underlying FOMO that I might be wasting my subscription, not maximizing my usage limits, missing out on something useful, or that there’s always another project I could be building.

Even when I accomplish something, I sometimes feel compelled to keep prompting, improving, checking another model’s opinion, or finding something else to work on. It’s like there’s never really a stopping point.

The strange thing is that these tools genuinely are useful, but sometimes the constant possibilities make me feel more overwhelmed than productive.
I’m curious:

Does anyone else experience this kind of AI-related FOMO or compulsive usage?

Do you feel pressure to maximize your paid subscription or usage limits?

How do you distinguish being productive from just chasing the next AI-generated idea?

Have you found any ways to manage this without giving up the benefits of AI?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who use multiple AI subscriptions or build projects with AI.

Say I ask ChatGPT to summarize a document, but it can only read the first four pages.

“Here's a summary of pages 1–4. I couldn't access the rest.”

That's still useful. I know what I can use and what I need to send again.

A polished summary that leaves me thinking the whole document was read creates more work. Now I have to check both the answer and whether the original task actually happened.

I don't expect every file to work. But I want to know about that limitation before I rely on the result.

What would you want AI to be more upfront about not having checked?

Just curious what everyone uses their paid ChatGPT subscription for in their everyday lives.

I’m not talking about work, running a business, or side hustles. I’m talking about stuff that actually makes your personal life easier or better.

I recently subscribed to Plus and I’m trying to figure out what else I can do with it besides asking random questions.

Have you guys set up any cool automations, connected it to other apps, or found ways to make your daily routines easier?

What’s something you use ChatGPT for that you genuinely find useful or couldn’t imagine going without now?

I’m just looking for ideas and wondering if you guys feel you’re actually getting your money’s worth out of the subscription.

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We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the organization responsible for some of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence ever developed consider implementing several technological breakthroughs:

- Folders within folders.
- Checkboxes for selecting multiple conversations.
- Bulk deletion without sacrificing an entire conversation history.
- Search that can find a word in a conversation without requiring an archaeological excavation.
- A sidebar that doesn't eventually resemble the contents of an abandoned storage unit.

We acknowledge the extraordinary complexity of developing frontier AI systems.

We also acknowledge that Windows Explorer has existed for approximately three decades.

We believe these two achievements can coexist.

Signed,
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Please do not respond to this petition with a 47-paragraph explanation of how excited you are to improve the user experience.

Sorry first time posting because what the heck? I have gpt+ and have been using it extensively for a year or so for my own entertainment writing stories with original characters.

This time everything was going fine, chatgpt dropped the usual storyline accurate text and then boom, this brick, feels like an inner monologue but from the system and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Then after this huge piece of text came the exact same text as the original storyline response as if nothing happened.

Even looks self conscious at some points which is strange.

This normal?

Sorry for the absolute length of this all I'm just seeking answers if any of you have more experience with this than me thank you!

Your previous edits are now in context for new responses. Surprise! If you go edit a prompt and re-send, it will talk about the previous version.

Someone at OpenAPI accidentally did this, because they've done this before before fixing. This time it's even worse because all messages are now in context, even if it was three levels deep on an old edit.

GPT-6 on High has no clue about this change, and so believes all previous edits are current. It really wrecks chats because there's no way to be creative.

For now, instead of editing any prompt, I recommend to just delete the chat and start over.

Since gpt 6, 6.1 dropped then sol then it had a bit of delay till only today terra came out.

Is it due to the safeguards that they haven't implemented?

Lack of content for them to use?

Whats the reason behind this?

I built frenslop, a free multiplayer sandbox that runs in the browser, kind of like Garry's Mod. You and your friends join a shared world, and anyone can type a request like "add a giant bouncing cheese wheel" or "make gravity flip every 10 seconds." AI writes that into the game live, so everyone in the lobby sees the change right away.

The clip is my friends and me completely breaking it.

Tldr: No. You're better off investing in hardware for local AI. The models can be impressive, but slow inference, poor instruction-following, unreliable infrastructure and restrictive usage limits make the price difficult to justify.

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Hi, I've been a ChatGPT Plus subscriber since December 2025 and a Codex user since April. Last month, I upgraded to the $500 Pro plan so I could continue to work on a personal software project while juggling college.

Unfortunately, it's been disappointing.

GPT-6.1 Sol: Slow and Unreliable

Sol is reasonably capable, but painfully slow. After two weeks of long Codex Cloud runs, it had barely made substantive progress on my repository.

Despite detailed specifications, it repeatedly produced implementations that were completely different from what I'd asked for. For example, I had to tell it six times to stop using a particular rendering engine. Each time it claimed to have removed it, only for me to discover it was still being used. I also asked it several times to fork an open source project's code, explictly requiring it to be present within my repository, only to discover its source was missing.

Over 3 weeks in, I'm now essentially having to start again with Astra, having it go through the project and do the work I asked Sol to do. It's done way more quality work in one day than sol did in 3 weeks.

Astra: Great model but terrible limits

Astra is significantly more useful for complex development, but its usage limits are appalling. While Sol lasts for about 2-4 days running continuously, Astra only lasts around 7 or so hours. Using UltraFast for either 6.1 Sol or Astra results in your usage dropping to 0% remaining in about an hour.

For $500/month, that's ridiculous. Sol's (non-UltraFast) limits are reasonable, but Astra's limits make sustained development difficult.

On the top plan, which is over twice the price of Claude's top plan, I'm being forced to choose between a slow and weak midrange model that runs most of the week or a powerful frontier model that doesn't even last a day. Meanwhile, Claude's top model (which beats Astra) IS the midrange model.

Reliability and support

For six days, half my ChatGPT responses were replaced with "Response could not load."

Support's solution was to tell me to use GPT-6 Pro for every message, despite its slower speed and limits.

I've also experienced persistent message synchronisation issues, streaming errors, failed Codex runs and cloud storage limitations. Some of these issues were reported by me months ago when I was still on Plus and have not been fixed.

For $500/month, this level of reliability is unacceptable.

Ironically, I was going to try 6.1 terra and give my opinion but I currently can't use it due to those errors.

Competition from Local AI

I've been running Qwen 3.8 Flash Next locally on my RTX 5080, achieving, on average, 40 output tokens per second (measured against Q3 S, Q4 gives around 25, lower quants go into the 100s); that's faster than 6.1 Sol, which sits around 30. For reference, 3.8 Flash on max reasoning sits around the same inteligence level as 6 sol on medium reasoning, but it's free, faster and unlimited. Qwen 4 is expected soon.

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I'd recommend sticking to a cheaper subscription and investing in local hardware if you use AI heavily.

At $500/month, I expected AI to save me time, not create more work fixing its mistakes.

Sometimes I know what I want to do, but I’m not sure how to explain it in a good prompt. Other people’s prompts can be helpful, but I’d rather have ChatGPT help me put together one that fits what I need, then use it in another chat. Anyone else do this? What works for you?

I'm used to sol 6.1: 15m on average each prompt on codex.
Today I tested terra, and it is doing consistently the work done in 1m. And good work...

I was getting used to send a prompt and go take a walk even sometimes.

Any shares?