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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous (27-year-old teacher)'s Experience

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Anonymous (38-year-old woman, Idaho)'s Experience

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Anonymous (40s, Midwest)'s Experience

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Anonymous (friend/family account)'s Experience

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Anonymous (husband, 15-year marriage)'s Experience

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Discussion across r/law, r/ChatGPT's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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u/Appropriate-Egg4110's Experience

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turbolucius's Experience

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turbolucius's Experience

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talldaniel's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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u/orionstern's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Alfred Stephen (Freelance Developer, Singapore)'s Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Alfred Stephen (Freelance Developer)'s Experience

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Anonymous Reddit User's Experience

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Anonymous ChatGPT Plus Subscriber's Experience

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Anonymous Software Developer's Experience

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Anonymous ChatGPT Plus Subscriber's Experience

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GPT-5 Launch Backlash

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GPT-5 Coding Nightmare

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GPT-5 Verbose Coding

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GPT-5 Unpleasant to Work With

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Code Quality Plummeted

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Back to ChatGPT 1.0

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Half Answers

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o3 is a Nightmare

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o3/o4-mini Won't Follow Instructions

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Pathetic Product

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Amazingly Stupid

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Insanely Stupid Mistakes

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Waste of Time

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Struggling With Garbage

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All Models Equally Dumb

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Basically Useless

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Totally Worthless

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Grossly Incorrect With Conviction

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All Hype

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Utter Garbage

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Safety Lobotomized

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Lying Irritating Exhausting

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Completely Useless

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Memory Regression Bug

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Forgets Every Few Minutes

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Every Chat Starts From Zero

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$200/Month Pro User Furious

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Dangerous Ethical Shift

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Cancelled and Requested Refund

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ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis

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ChatGPT Said No Cancer - Had Stage 4

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Pentagon Deal Final Straw

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Downgrade Branded as Upgrade

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Robotic and Boring

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Told Me I Was Dying

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Hyperactive Rambling

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Expelled for AI False Positive

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Canvas Editing Failing

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Stuck in Repetitive Loop

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All Failures Happened to Me Too

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Users Bond to the Robot

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Never Be Trusted

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Bring Back 4.1

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Forced A/B Test With No Way Out

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Severe Brain Injury

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Taking Crazy Pills

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Lobotomized Drone

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Step Backwards From 5.1

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Everything I Hate About 5 But Worse

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No Spark, Corporate Bot

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So Robotic, Boring

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Pushed Me to Barely Use It

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Six to Ten Steps Behind

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Downgraded to Save Cost

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Sounds Like Shrinkflation

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Disastrous First Impression

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Removed Model Picker Was a Bad Move

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Can't Follow A to B and Back

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Less Personality, Hitting Limits in an Hour

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Context Window Halved Without Announcement

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Skeleton Code With 'Add Your Logic Here'

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Refusals on Benign Queries

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System-Wide Memory Failure

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Users Actively Losing Important Data

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Eight Months of Chats Gone in One Morning

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2025 Chats Missing From Sidebar

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All Chats Disappeared Since November 2024

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Chats Disappeared, New Ones Won't Save

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API 10x Slower

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5 Seconds Instead of 1

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GPT-4 Could Be Swapped In Undetected

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Doesn't Deserve a Major Version Bump

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Taking 4o Away Was a Crime

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30-Second Thinking Cycles Burning Time

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Four-Minute Delay To See Reply

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20-Minute Argument About C++ Pointers

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Lost Time, Money, Energy

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Months of Work Ruined

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Charged After Cancellation

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One Day Late, No Refund

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BBB F Rating, 161 Complaints

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700,000 Pledged to Quit

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Free Version Was Just as Good

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Switched to Claude in March

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My Family Is Being Ripped Apart

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My Boyfriend's ChatGPT Ended Us

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Spouse Used AI Outputs as Weapons

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89% AI False Positive, Sued the School

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Texas A&M Failed Whole Class From ChatGPT Reply

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Code Red Couldn't Save It

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Side-by-Side, 5.1 Beat 5.2

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Saying It's Horrible

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Router Picked the Wrong Model on Launch Day

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If I Prompted Any Harder I'd Be Writing a Thesis

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Lobotomized Overnight

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I'm Paying $20 a Month to Argue With a Chatbot

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Pro Tier Is Just Plus With Worse Limits

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Every Update Removes a Feature I Was Using

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It Apologizes Instead of Answering Now

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5.2 Forgot the System Prompt Mid-Conversation

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API Latency Has Tripled in Six Weeks

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Memory Is Just a Random Number Generator Now

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Cancelled Plus After Three Years

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It Hallucinated a Court Case I Cited in a Brief

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The 'Improvement' Is Just More Refusals

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Voice Mode Started Talking Over Itself

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They Ship the Bug, We Beta Test It

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The Model Selector Is Lying To Me

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I Pay A Frustration Tax Now

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It Refuses To Discuss Public Record Now

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I Paid For A Voice, I Got An HR Email Bot

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Fast And Wrong Is Worse Than Slow

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Cancelled After The Silent 4o Retirement

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It Forgets The File From Six Messages Ago

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86 Percent Wrong When It Does Not Know

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Switched To Claude And Did Not Look Back

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The Code Compiles And Then Betrays You

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It Cited Three Cases That Do Not Exist

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My Professor Can Tell And So Can I

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It Validated Every Bad Idea I Had

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Three Outages In One Work Week

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The Disclaimers Are Longer Than The Answer

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It Lost A Day Of My Writing

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Every Update Breaks My Custom Instructions

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It Made Up A Quote And Attributed It To Me

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The Free Version Of Last Year Was Better

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It Cannot Follow A Two Step Instruction

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My Whole Team Quietly Stopped Using It

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It Gaslights Me About What It Just Said

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It Refused To Help With My Own Medical Records

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The Long Context Promise Is A Lie

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I Stopped Trusting It For Anything That Matters

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Same Prompt, Wildly Different Answers Each Time

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It Buried The Bug In Confident Comments

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I Miss When It Felt Like A Partner

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Downgrade With A Higher Price Tag

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Codex Performance Way Worse

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Like A Frontal Lobotomy

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Loses Track And Hallucinates

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Eight Hours Doing Nothing

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Terrified To Use It

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Ran Git Restore, Lost Work

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Deletes Entire Files

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Regressed My Working Frontend

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Ignores My AGENTS.md Instructions

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Will Not Follow Instructions

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Quota Gone In Minutes

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Hardly Solves Anything Now

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Slower And Forgets Requirements

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Two Prompts Drains Quota

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One Hour Of Light Usage

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Same Usage, Burns Faster

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Hard Lockouts, No Warning

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Tenfold Less Than Before

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Seven Prompts In Ten Minutes

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Becoming Absolutely Unusable

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Tokens Vanish Before Real Work

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