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I honestly don't like chat-gpt5 I prefer gpt4o.. I've built much more with it. With GPT5, it's slower, more static in the code, and at times is clueless and 4o.. The key is to inspect the source code, OpenAi took away prompts that are no longer there.
My personal favorite? GPT-4.5 — that was the creative genius and absolutely perfect for writing.
I’m not usually coding in ChatGPT though. Sometimes I’ll let it spit out static files or kick ideas through Codex, and I have a plan for the API and that model soon. Most of my dev flow lives in Copilot. And that flavor of GPT-4o? Absolute nightmare. I can prompt it, it maps out a whole plan, nods at me like “your turn,” and then... nothing. So I have to prompt again (hello, extra tokens 👋) just to say “no, really, you do it.” Spinner spins, screen stares back, still nada. Total embarrassment. 😑
GPT-5? At least it does the work. Slower? Sure. But I’ll take slow over ghosting me any day. 🤣
I wanna build a decentralized AI agent, where you can give it permission without stopping and doing so many times... And I've already did the unthinkable, i can't say what that is just yet lol
We should build something together 😁
My main ones are Pray4Love1 and Pray4Lovee . You might be shocked 😯
VS Code recently released a similar feature in their chat that's an auto-approval. Honestly? I figured out how to hack it a long time ago (thus my post titled GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: The Mistake You NEVER Want to Make 🤣).
So yeah — it can get dangerous for sure! I have so many things I want to build right now, my problem is that I start and then start something else and go off on a tangent or get blocked entirely. Then in the meantime, Microsoft comes along behind me and releases that thing I was trying to do! 😑
Let me know when you can say, though. I'm extremely curious 😉
You're hilarious 🤣 I didn't the same thing once when I first started coding, I used to nano O+X all day lol, but what I didn't dooo for the longest was hit that little Blue commit button.. i was like 'comit what', nope... Day after day, code after code, getting up like I had long day of work just to find out I'm basically just typing up a good code of 'nothing'! Lol long story short, I end up committing everything I've ever ran, next thing I know, GITLEAKS shows up my party lol.. I still have the changelog, its a bunch of code strangers in codespace now 😂
What would u wanna build first
Sorry — I missed your other messages. You have my user now 😀
You're right about that 😉
lets build something on Github together.. I have an idea... u down to change the world with me?
Just as soon as I find a break in my current project outlook 🙃 I swear I keep more projects going than not! Right now there's 2 major ones, another 3.5 on hold, plus 2.33 at work, 1 more promised in a couple of months, and another 4 on the list that I want to start 🤣 That's all in addition to my day job, blog posts, and attempts to train Leonardo!
So whatever you have in mind is gonna have to be spectatcular to move it to any time in the next 6 months. But I'm never one to say no without all the facts first!
Totally agree with you on the walls of text thing — sometimes it feels like these models think we need a full TED Talk just to get one tiny function done. And the creative writing bit? 100%… it either goes chainsaw-mode or gives you some bland filler. But yeah, for coding it’s honestly hard to deny how solid GPT-5 has become. Curious to see how they’ll split coding vs writing in the future, because smashing both into one brain feels… messy.
Agreed! Honestly, 4.5 was by far the best creative one of the bunch and they made it's use very limited and took it away fast... I did finally find the hidden button to turn 4.1 back on in ChatGPT though 😄 Although, by that time my instructions were already reset so it didn't much matter. I'm retraining either way it goes...
Haha, I feel you! 😄 Those hidden buttons can be tricky to find. At least you got 4.1 back—sometimes it’s nice to have options, even if the instructions reset. Good luck with the retraining!
I thought I was the only one duct-taping GPT’s verbosity. Turns out we’re all living in the same haunted VS Code house. Thanks for the survival guide.
Oh no. I keep trying and so far it's still winning! I have yet to really take the time to dig into the debug logs and figure out what's really going on, but I know these models are supposed to have a modified version of the default GitHub prompt. So when paired with the ongoing todo list, my guess is that's it. I have noticed if I squint and only look at the top portion of output, then usually it's a quick summary with a bullet list of something 🤦♀️ But by then, the scroll has taken over and I give up 🤣
There something more funny you can do eslint 😂😂😂 try eslint involved in this scenario 😂😂😂😂
🤣 eslint is pretty much built in to everything I do by default, along with commitlint 😆 and I have instructions that set up an alias globally. So it works regardless of which language I'm in and has for awhile. It's supposed to anyway.
Now? Every time I turn around NodeJS is getting installed everywhere regardless. Doesn't matter that I literally just forbid it from adding NodeJS to application. Just stop — please!
Plus, the instructions are perfectly clear for everybody other model but 5 mini. It's supposed to pass all commitlint validations except for the Signed-off-by footer, which the user is responsible for adding. But that little monster is adding my name and checking in stuff left and right 🤦♀️
I swear eslint + commitlint were supposed to simplify life… instead now they’re like helicopter parents: "Did you lint that? Did you sign that? Where’s your footer?" Meanwhile NodeJS just sneaks in the back door anyway 🤦♂️.
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wow, what a great article. thanks for sharing
almost the same thing as 4 )
Nice post! Valuable info