Users fight ChatGPT's 'planning instead of doing' behavior

TexasZack · reddit · 2026-10-15

A Reddit user reports that ChatGPT often narrates what it's going to do instead of executing, sometimes requiring two or three 'go ahead' prompts. Even explicit Project instructions like 'Complete actionable tasks immediately' and 'Execute rather than narrate' fail to fix it. They're asking whether any wording reliably stops this or if it's baked into the model.

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