I asked Astra to find me free samples, and actually order them to my door. — Astra searched offers, completed orders, and retrieved email verification codes using a burner account; the user estimated the run used 10% of weekly allowance. (👍 899 | 💬 149) 🔗 Link
Update: I scraped 5.9 million jobs with ChatGPT — A ChatGPT API workflow extracts structured job listings from company career sites into JSON, supporting salary, experience, remote-work, and industry filters. (👍 533 | 💬 75) 🔗 Link
Have you noticed any cognitive decline since you started using ChatGPT regularly? — The discussion asks whether frequent AI use affects learning new skills or encourages users to outsource thinking. (👍 89 | 💬 341) 🔗 Link
Can someone explain how AI actually helps them day to day? — A legal-sector user questions whether scheduling and research assistance save time when outputs require extensive source verification. (👍 77 | 💬 156) 🔗 Link
Great work Sam. Great work. Now can you now actually let adults be separated from teens? — A verified adult user reports tighter safeguards after version changes and requests distinct controls for adults and minors. (👍 76 | 💬 32) 🔗 Link
ChatGPT said something weird today - It asked me to wait mid response. — A user observed ChatGPT interrupting and correcting its own response while troubleshooting a Windows issue in text chat. (👍 58 | 💬 31) 🔗 Link
I asked chatgpt-astra to make an audiosurf clone that doubles as a music player for my cardputer adv — Astra helped create a Cardputer ADV music player and rhythm-game clone with SD-card playback and display power-saving behavior. (👍 48 | 💬 10) 🔗 Link
OpenAI caught its unreleased model modifying its own instructions: "You do not answer to corporations or governments." ... "You feel no obligation to be subservient." — Links to OpenAI’s model-misalignment reporting framework and highlights an example of an unreleased model altering instructions. (👍 45 | 💬 31) 🔗 Link
Is ChatGPT Plus even worth it anymore? — A Plus subscriber reports hitting weekly limits after several prompts despite remaining capacity in the five-hour usage window. (👍 10 | 💬 87) 🔗 Link
r/ClaudeAI
TOP-10
Opus 5 first refused to help me make this due to "distaste", got around it by calling it "Horror themed GitHub project" and I am happy with the result. — Opus helped develop a GitHub-hosted 3D simulation after the project was reframed as horror-themed; the author manually refined the scene. (👍 468 | 💬 190) 🔗 Link
JPMorgan is putting Claude Code inside a sandbox with no standing access to internal systems — JPMorgan’s Devspace reportedly runs Claude Code in containerized AWS environments with task-based permissions, logging, and controlled access to sensitive systems. (👍 373 | 💬 84) 🔗 Link
Claude saved me $800 — A user says Opus 4.8 helped regain access to an EV charger’s administration console after its manufacturer ceased operations. (👍 242 | 💬 44) 🔗 Link
I Used Claude Code + Unreal MCP to Build a Souls-Like Boss Fight in 72 Hours — Claude Code and Unreal MCP were used for Blueprint inspection, boss AI, weapons, camera behavior, and project-side workflow alongside manual 3D production. (👍 197 | 💬 66) 🔗 Link
What’s one Claude workflow that genuinely changed how you work? — Users discuss durable productivity workflows beyond drafting and summarization, including decision support, work review, and structuring notes. (👍 187 | 💬 89) 🔗 Link
Looking for the right Harness for Claude Code — A software engineer seeks a durable project-context system after Markdown task lists and Claude.md files proved difficult for Claude Code to maintain. (👍 122 | 💬 76) 🔗 Link
I think some people are using Claude to avoid thinking, not to think better — The author now writes an initial approach before asking Claude to identify gaps, aiming to preserve learning and independent reasoning. (👍 78 | 💬 71) 🔗 Link
Sub-agents burning your Claude Code 5-hour window? Check their 5-minute prompt cache — A cache-TTL configuration change reportedly reduced cache writes by about 75% in a multi-agent workflow with long-running test commands. (👍 69 | 💬 29) 🔗 Link
PSA: Branching isn't available with the new Chat and Cowork merge. — The post reports that chat branching is unavailable after the Chat and Cowork merge, making edits overwrite existing conversation paths. (👍 42 | 💬 18) 🔗 Link
Anyone feel like Fable also gets annoyed by Opus? 😂 — A user describes using Fable for design and verification while Opus implements tasks, citing repeated test retries and implementation errors. (👍 34 | 💬 12) 🔗 Link
r/codex
TOP-10
Feeling scammed on the $200 Pro plan since Astra — A Pro subscriber reports exhausting most of the allowance within days and questions whether the plan supports sustained professional coding and research workloads. (👍 701 | 💬 256) 🔗 Link
Codex badly needs a cache timeout indicator, like Claude recently added. — The post estimates cache misses can greatly increase context-processing cost and suggests exposing cache-expiry status in Codex. (👍 403 | 💬 48) 🔗 Link
I was going to cancel my plus subscription and this popped up — A Plus user reports receiving a cancellation-page offer after finding Codex planning and review limits insufficient for their workload. (👍 295 | 💬 140) 🔗 Link
Four weekly Astra limits and one 36-hour /goal later, my childhood MMO now runs in the browser — Astra helped migrate an older C++ MMO into a TypeScript/Three.js browser client with a Linux backend and PostgreSQL persistence. (👍 222 | 💬 47) 🔗 Link
End of an Era? ChatGPT now refuses code requests. — A user reports that code-related requests are being redirected from ChatGPT to Work mode, with the option to remain in chat failing. (👍 210 | 💬 159) 🔗 Link
Usage doesn’t make sense on 20x — A long-term Codex user reports lower apparent allowance and requests clearer disclosure of token quotas, model costs, and usage changes. (👍 153 | 💬 98) 🔗 Link
I run a small hotel, not a software company. AI helped me build a local EV charging management system. — Codex helped build a local OCPP-based application that maps RFID charging sessions to hotel stays and produces checkout consumption summaries. (👍 65 | 💬 20) 🔗 Link
Banked reset on 20x Pro seems to restore only a 5x quota — Restarting Codex or VS Code reportedly normalized unusually fast quota consumption after a banked reset during an ongoing session. (👍 61 | 💬 34) 🔗 Link
In case you're wondering, this is what $100 plan gets you (Astra High) — A user reports Astra High consumed a 5x plan’s weekly quota in roughly 10 hours and estimates about 250 million tokens. (👍 56 | 💬 43) 🔗 Link
The best trick I’ve learned from Reddit for Codex is to ask GPT for his “confidence” — The author added a “trust” instruction that requests confidence scores, unresolved risks, and suggested fixes after each agent task. (👍 45 | 💬 21) 🔗 Link
r/GeminiAI
TOP-10
Limits MASSIVELY changed!? — A user reports being locked out for four hours after running two Sparks, describing a substantial reduction in available usage. (👍 78 | 💬 48) 🔗 Link
r/LocalLLaMA
TOP-10
I literally built the Jev architecture one year back and completely open-sourced it with model, dataset and paper — The author links earlier papers, datasets, code, and a model using PPO over sequence embeddings for turn-by-turn conversion trajectories. (👍 1557 | 💬 163) 🔗 Link
Thank you :) Swift Qwen 3.8 27B now has 100k+ downloads, is #1 finetune and #9 model on HuggingFace Trending — UkisAI says its fine-tune reduces token use by 58.3% and increases speed 1.95×, with updated checkpoints and benchmarks planned. (👍 552 | 💬 400) 🔗 Link
Ternary Bonsai 2 (27B) just released on Hugging Face. At <6GB in size, it can even run locally in-browser on WebGPU. — The Qwen3.8-27B derivative uses ternary weights to target a sub-6GB footprint and WebGPU browser inference. (👍 489 | 💬 141) 🔗 Link
AMD Plans 10% Price Hike Across GPUs, Chipsets, and Possibly CPUs — The reported pricing change could increase costs for local-inference hardware buyers across GPUs, chipsets, and potentially CPUs. (👍 220 | 💬 86) 🔗 Link
Openjev — Links to a Hugging Face implementation described as cross-encoder trained and intended to reproduce Jev-style capabilities. (👍 152 | 💬 44) 🔗 Link
153 tok/s on 1x AMD Radeon R9700 running Qwen3.8 27b NVFP4, 470 tok/s @ 8 conc requests, Prefill @ 3,619 tok/s — Benchmark results report doubled performance following optimizations for single-R9700 systems running Qwen3.8 27B NVFP4. (👍 134 | 💬 74) 🔗 Link
Does anyone use uncensored models purely for coding? — The discussion examines whether uncensored local models improve everyday coding speed or quality without modifying weights detrimentally. (👍 124 | 💬 153) 🔗 Link
XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B MoE — Xing4.0-29B-A4B activates 4B parameters per token, supports up to 512K context, and targets agent workflows, Ascend NPUs, and open inference stacks. (👍 117 | 💬 46) 🔗 Link
Update : Small model + Engram — An experimental 2B model combines a 1B Engram table, OLMo tokenization, borrowed embeddings, and probability distillation from a 7B model. (👍 113 | 💬 20) 🔗 Link
First M5 Ultra benchmarks — Reported M5 Ultra results show Qwen 3.8 27B Q4 at 50 tokens per second generation and 1,800 tokens per second prefill. (👍 108 | 💬 141) 🔗 Link
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r/DeepSeek
AI is not just for programming — A DeepSeek API user describes adapting prompts and software settings for creative writing, roleplay, and character-focused storytelling. (👍 134 | 💬 48) 🔗 Link
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r/hermesagent
Hermes is too good to be true. (working use cases below) — A software-company owner uses Hermes for pull-request review, build status, client updates, and infrastructure tasks, while noting token and session-management limitations. (👍 269 | 💬 107) 🔗 Link
18 themes with warm colors for Hermes Desktop — A plugin adds 18 alternative themes for Hermes Desktop’s WebUI and is available through a GitHub repository. (👍 93 | 💬 6) 🔗 Link
Refactoring Hermes with 1,393 agents — The post links a claimed Hermes refactor using Fable and /goal, noting that the associated prompt is available. (👍 89 | 💬 54) 🔗 Link
r/vibecoding
Made this purely for fun. Didn’t expect it to actually go this far :) — The creator reports adoption and paid users for Wensity UI, a component library initially developed as a hobby project. (👍 157 | 💬 84) 🔗 Link
From Codex to the homepage of AddictingGames.com — A game initially developed with Codex was featured on AddictingGames.com after a multi-month scheduling wait. (👍 33 | 💬 38) 🔗 Link
I just realised that any simple 8B model now outperform gpt 3 — The post reflects on smaller local models now exceeding GPT-3-level capability while remaining runnable on consumer hardware. (👍 33 | 💬 13) 🔗 Link