Heavy user: ChatGPT's correction loop turns a time-saver into a supervisor's job
Outrageous-Toe-2048 · reddit · 2026-10-12
A heavy ChatGPT user's vent post argues the real pain isn't single bad answers but the correction loop: clear instruction → partially ignored → correction causes a new mistake → model claims it's fixed → it isn't. A minutes-long task becomes an hour of supervising — checking whether it followed instructions, hallucinated, or changed things it was told not to touch. Conversational AI is worse than normal software because it confidently explains its misunderstanding, apologizes for the wrong thing, and continues from the same false premise. Yet he keeps using it daily, because it genuinely works — the paradox of a time-saving tool becoming the biggest time-waster.
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