OpenAI's flagship AI assistant powered by GPT-4o with real-time web search, voice mode, image generation (DALL-E 3), vision, code execution, and memory. Most widely used AI tool with 300M+ weekly users.
Frequent capacity limits and UI bugs make ChatGPT unreliable for critical or time‑sensitive tasks.
Reality check: Use it for light drafting or debugging, but avoid critical, time‑sensitive tasks where capacity limits or UI bugs can interrupt you.
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“### What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)? 0.153.4 ### What subscription do you have? max $200 ### Wha”
“### What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)? 26.903.61454 (build 8378) ### What subscription do you have? ”
“I have been using ChatGPT (mainly) as my main AI tool, but sometimes also DeepSeek and other AI providers.<p>But with repetitive tasks, it b”
“**Describe the bug** During peak load, Codex Desktop returns "Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model." and hard-fails. ”
“When I pick a hosted ChatGPT subscription model for an agent on the Pi harness, then switch that agent to the Claude or Codex harness withou”
“**Describe the bug** On a ChatGPT Pro subscription, Codex Desktop keeps throwing this error intermittently (works for a while, then fails, t”