ChatGPT left a task hanging for 45 minutes, forcing the user to kill the thread
codepoetn · reddit · 2026-09-13
A user who switched to ChatGPT (Plan Astra) this month reports a task that ran with no progress for 45 minutes until they force-stopped it. They suggest ChatGPT should auto-terminate an active thread after 2+ minutes of no change, and ask how others avoid these hangs.
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