"Paying users shouldn't be unpaid QA": power user publicly challenges OpenAI over Instant reliability
echoabenteuer · reddit · 2026-10-13
The same tester who ran the A/B/A experiments publicly challenges OpenAI: paying users shouldn't have to work as unpaid QA engineers. The facts mirror the earlier post — Medium succeeded in all 4 runs across GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 while Instant failed both times; vanishing responses showed HTTP 200 and a completed SSE stream; the issue reproduces across devices and is documented under Support Case #16904787 with no root cause or ETA.
The author asks whether Instant's effective behavior has changed and whether long-form, multi-step work is now implicitly meant for Medium, and says they've started evaluating Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek — with some competitors producing surprisingly strong results. No accusation of deliberate degradation, but a demand for transparency on known issues.
Related event: Tests show ChatGPT Instant mode silently drops or truncates responses(2 posts)→
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