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ChatGPT doesn't obey settings prompt

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How the story developed
25 Mar
ChatGPT doesn't obey settings prompt
OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPT
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Other feeds and industry voices
11 May
I ran the same vague prompt through ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini 50 times. The "AI is bad" complaints are almost all the same mistake.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I got curious about something. People constantly say one model is smarter than another. So I ran an experiment.</p> <p>I took ten common prompts,

OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
5 May
C:\Users\NAME\.codex\sessions\2026\05\01

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So I'm looking in these files and I see a huge dump. It seems like there's the entire base instruction. Is this already open source or am I

OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
9 May
Sourcing integrity within Projects

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>TL/DR: Project sources seem generally reliable as the main resources for the GPT within the Project. However, GPTs can and will unknowingly

OPINION · WHEN · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
25 Mar
Text Based RPG

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So I’ve been toying with a text based prompt for the last week. And I finally have a working model that runs pretty smoothly. It creates very

OPINION · HOW · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
6 May
i found a setting inside ChatGPT that makes it remember exactly how you think. nobody talks about it.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>not custom instructions. everyone knows custom instructions.</p> <p>something inside custom instructions that almost nobody uses correctly.</p>

OPINION · HOW · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
15 Apr
I think a lot of us are accidentally leaking work data into AI tools

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been noticing a pattern with how people use AI tools at work.</p> <p>Not obvious misuse — just normal things like:</p> <ul> <li>debugging

OPINION · WHEN · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
7 May
Work Doesn't Start With a Blank Page Anymore

<p>You opened ChatGPT before Slack this morning.<br /><br /> Not for anything complicated. Just to figure out how to begin.</p> <p>That small move is already changing what

REPORT · WHERE · Dev.toOPEN STORY
20 Jul
Response Command Code (RCC): My Complete Framework for Getting Better ChatGPT Responses

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I know that you have probably seen a lot of iterations and custom prompts surrounding how to modify ChatGPT’s responses, and I know that I have

OPINION · HOW · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
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