Reddit users vent: ChatGPT keeps narrating what it will do instead of actually doing it
Puzzleheaded-Being93 · reddit · 2026-09-27
A Reddit post is resonating over a growing annoyance: ask ChatGPT to write Python code and it responds with a detailed essay about what it will do and which edge cases it considered—then stops without writing anything. You have to reply "okay, write the code" to get output, and the same loop repeats for edits and writing tasks.
The author's takeaway: the model increasingly narrates work instead of doing it—"I don't need another project manager, I need useful output." They're asking for custom-instruction tricks to make the model more action-oriented, with many commenters reporting the same behavior.
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