This is also my perception using it daily for the last year or so. Sometimes it also responds with exactly what I provided it with and does not make any changes

This is also my perception using it daily for the last year or so. Sometimes it also responds with exactly what I provided it with and does not make any changes. It's also bad at following instructions. GPT-4 was great until it became "lazy" and filled the code with lots of `// Draw the rest of the fucking owl` type comments. Then GPT-4o was released and it's addicted to "Here's what I'm going to do: 1. ... 2. ... 3. ..." and lots of frivolous, boilerplate output. I wish I could go back to some version of GPT-4 that worked well but with a bigger context window. That was like the golden era...