User: ChatGPT agent took nearly 24 hours and still finished less than half of assigned tasks
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-10-20
A user recounts spending 2 hours sending grouped, queued, highly specific instructions to ChatGPT to clean up their workspace — only to find nearly 24 hours later that less than half the tasks were done, despite an AI lab leader's claim that "it just works."
A reply quips that the user is fighting "layer upon layer of anti-intuition architecture" and suggests trying Claude instead. The anecdote highlights the gap between agent product promises and real-world task execution reliability.
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