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I find it quite funny how this blog post has a big "Ask ChatGPT" box at the bottom. So you might think you could ask a question about the contents of the blog p
by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
I find it quite funny how this blog post has a big "Ask ChatGPT" box at the bottom. So you might think you could ask a question about the contents of the blog post, so you type the text "summarise this blog post". And it opens a new chat window with the link to the blog post followed by "summarise this blog post". Only to be told "I can't access external URLs directly, but if you can paste the relevant text or describe the content you're interested in from the page, I can help you summarize it. Feel free to share!"
That's hilarious. Does OpenAI even know this doesn't work?
- Aurornis 8mo agoProbably intentional. They don't want open, no-registration endpoints able to trigger the AI into hitting URLs.
- jazzypants 8mo agoBut, why include the non-functional chat box in the article?
- observationist 8mo agoThey're having service issues - ChatGPT on the web is broken for a lot of people. The app is working in android - I'd assume that the rollout hit a hitch and the chatbox in the article would normally work.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoDifferent team "manages" the overall blog than the team who wrote that specific article. At one point, maybe it made sense, then something in the product changed, team that manages the blog never tested it again. Or, people just stopped thinking about any sort of UX. These sort of mistakes are all over the place, on literally all web properties, some UX flows just ends with you at a page where nothing works sometimes. Everything is just perpetually "a bit broken" seemingly everywhere I go, not specific to OpenAI or even the internet.
- teaearlgraycold 8mo agoIf only there was some kind of way to automatically test user flows end to end. Perhaps testing could be evaluated periodically, or even ran for each code change.
- koakuma-chan 8mo agoThere is no business value in doing that.
- teaearlgraycold 8mo agoThere most certainly is, but maybe the time spent on it could be better allocated to something else.
- koakuma-chan 8mo agoYeah, like adding more features.
- teaearlgraycold 8mo agoSometimes I’d pay for them to remove features.
- colonCapitalDee 8mo agoThat's why it happened. It still shouldn't have happened.
- ethbr1 8mo ago> Or, people just stopped thinking about any sort of UX. These sort of mistakes are all over the place, on literally all web properties, some UX flows just ends with you at a page where nothing works sometimes. It's almost like people are vibe coding their web apps or something.
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- jdndbdjsj 8mo agoWelcome to a big company
- AirGapWorksAI 8mo agoWelcome to a big company where pretty much everyone has been working full steam for years, in order to take advantage of having a job at a company during a once-in-a-lifetime moment.
- m3kw9 8mo agowhat? it's their own site and own llm. I could paste most sites and it would work.
- judge2020 8mo agoWorks for me: https://rr.judge.sh/Labradorretriever/d6af05/chrome_j9rXJMlfXgBv.png https://rr.judge.sh/Labradorretriever/d6af05/chrome_j9rXJMlf...
- zamadatix 8mo agoFollowing this process summarizes the blogpost for me. Perhaps the difference is I'm signed into my account so it can access external URLs or something of that nature?
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- pocksuppet 8mo agoMost AI integration is like this. It's not about building working products --- it's about bragging that you put a chatbox in your program.
- bartread 8mo agoThis is such a stale take. In the past 3 years I’ve worked on multiple products with AI at their core, not as some add-on. Just because the corpo-land dullards[0] can’t execute on anything more complex than shoehorning a chatbot into their offerings doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of people and companies doing far more interesting things. [0] In this case, and with heavy irony, including OpenAI, although it sounds like most of this particular snafu is due to a bug.
- LordDragonfang 8mo agoI mean, to be fair, both things can be technically true. There can be lots of interesting things being done, even while most can be low-effort garbage. But this is just Sturgeon's Law (ninety percent of everything is crap), not an actually insightful addition to the discussion, and I very much agree it's a stale take.
- abustamam 8mo agoKinda reminds me of crypto. There are certainly very interesting things happening in the crypto space. But the most visible parts of the crypto universe are the stupid parts (buying PNGs for millions, for example)
- thereticent 8mo agoGenuinely curious, not being combative...what very interesting things have happened in the crypto space lately?
- abustamam 8mo agoOh, I dunno about lately (though I did stumble upon https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/big-ideas-things-excited-about-crypto-2026/ https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/big-ideas-things-excite... ) But when I was in the crypto space in 2018, there was a lot of interesting things happening in the smart contract world (like proofs of concepts of issuing NFTs as a digital "deed" to a physical asset like a house). I don't think any of those novel ideas went anywhere, but it was a fun time to be experimenting.
- ElijahLynn 8mo agofwiw: I get a valid response when following the steps you mentioned. I do not get the message you mentioned: https://chatgpt.com/share/69aa0321-8a9c-8011-8391-22861784e8b2 https://chatgpt.com/share/69aa0321-8a9c-8011-8391-22861784e8... EDIT: oh, but I'm logged in, fwiw
- andrewguenther 8mo agoIt looks like this doesn't work for users without accounts? It works when I'm logged in, but not logged out. I went ahead and reported it to the team. Thanks for letting us know!
- dotancohen 8mo agoNo integration test for guest (non-logged in) users? Hahaha who am I kidding. No integration tests for anybody!
- democracy 8mo agointegration tests? so last century....
- Rohunyyy 8mo agoSDET here. A year ago when AI came into play SDET/QA roles started disappearing. People were like oh ya anyone can write tests. Then with the recent fiascos about outages and what not, I am seeing the SDE roles are disappearing and SDET roles are going back up?! Apparently AI is good at writing applications but you still need someone to make sure it is doing the right things.
- DrewADesign 8mo agoIt’s not really good at writing the software either — it’s a moderate to decent productivity booster in an uneven, difficult-to-predict assortment of tasks. Companies are just starting to exit the “we’re still trying to figure this out” grace period. Expect more of that as soon as these chatbot companies have to start charging enough to pull in more money than they spend. I foresee some purpose-built models that are pretty lean being much more useful in long run. It’s neat that the bot which can one-shot a simple CRUD website for you can also crank out Scrubs-based erotic fan fiction novellas by the dozen but I don’t foresee that being a sustainable business model. Having good purpose-built tools is, in my opinion, better than some unwieldy tool that can do a whole bunch of shit I don’t need it to.
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- baxtr 8mo agoI picked up Claude today after being away and using only ChatGPT and Gemini for a while. I was pretty impressed with how they’ve improved user experience. If I had to guess, I’d say Anthropic has better product people who put more attention to detail in these areas.
- abustamam 8mo agoI agree! I recently migrated from ChatGPT to Claude and it is just superior in every way. It doesn't blather on the at the end ask me for clarification. It's succinct and clarifies vital information before providing a solution.
- beachy 8mo agoI held off migrating from ChatGPT to Claude Code due to being a laggard that lived in the Eclipse world. I didn't believe what I was told that I wouldn't be writing code any more. Pushed into action by recent PR gaslighting from OpenAI, I jumped to claude code and they were right - I barely venture into the IDE now and certainly don't need an integration.
- vostrocity 8mo agoVoice input is still far less accurate than OpenAI's unfortunately, otherwise I would have already switched.
- abustamam 8mo agoOh interesting. I've never used voice input on either so I can't comment, but understandable why you can't switch if it's disruptive to your workflow to do so.
- gizmodo59 8mo agoChatGPT has given more for my 20$ than any other vendor. And that’s not even considering codex which is so good and the limits are much much higher
- amelius 8mo agoIf only they had an LLM they could use as a software testing agent.
- kennywinker 8mo agoI think you might have hit on the issue - just the wrong way around. I would assume they’re using LLMs for testing, and no humans or maybe just one overworked human, and that is the problem
- netdur 8mo agoDid it complain about copyright issues?
- peab 8mo agoLOL - yes Sam, AGI is near indeed. (sarcasm)
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- beambot 8mo agoIt's like opening copilot in a word doc and it telling you it can't see the document in its context
- reval 8mo agoThis is infuriating. However, for those in this situation, know this: it works if the document or spreadsheet is in OneDrive. I just wish Copilot told you this instead of asking you to upload the doc.
- mempko 8mo agovibe coded. But vibes are off
- kgeist 8mo agoI had something similar happen with skills today. A popup appeared saying, "hey, did you know ChatGPT has skills?" Clicking on it opened a new chat window, and after some thinking it said, "I tried to launch the built-in skills demo flow, but it isn’t available". They barely test this stuff.
- rapind 8mo ago> They barely test this stuff. In all fairness they are more focused on domestic surveillance these days.
- DonsDiscountGas 8mo agoThey're testing it in production apparently. With release cycles this fast there's no other way.
- Razengan 8mo agoAs bad as Google Gemini telling me it couldn't search Google Flights or Google reverse image search for me. These companies really need to dogfood their own products first. Do they not realize how embarrassing it is when their flagship intelligence refuses to interop with their own services?
- rishikeshs 8mo agoThis is not only openai, but other models as well. Last week I added a summarise with AI block on a product blog page. I had seen it somewhere and felt like it’s a cool feature to have. Wrote a small shortcode in hugo for the block and added it with various models. It’s like a hit and miss, sometimes claude says i cannot access your site which is not true. Ref: https://formbeep.com/blog/building-formbeep-weekend/ https://formbeep.com/blog/building-formbeep-weekend/
- martin_drapeau 8mo agoIn Codex I was suggested to try Codex Spark for a limited time. So for my next session, I gave it a shot. It is much, much faster. However on the task I gave it, it spun around in circles cycling through files and finally abandoned saying it ran out of tokens. Major fail.