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I've never had much success with ChatGPT, I've been trying to use it since January and am simply never happy with the outputs. Everyone says it's about the prompts and therefore if the outputs aren't right, it's my fault for not prompting it correctly. However, I've just moved over to Gemini plus NotebookLM and so far I'm blown away, it's giving me precisely what I want every time. And NotebookLM's structure that limits the sources is an amazing tool. So it's not all about the prompts, it's about finding the right model too.

The trick is I think not treating it like a search engine, and the more wordy you are with your prompts the more helpful it is.

I was at the Azure Dev Conference recently and Microsoft were jamming their agentic AI down our throats for 3 days solid. Feels like they've got all their eggs in this basket.

I’ll tell you what infuriates me with ChatGPT. When it offers to do something unprompted and then totally fails at an assignment it set itself.
A common thing for me has been asking it for help with fusion360. It will then keep prompting me to draw the 3D file itself. I say ok and it gives out total garbage after 2 minutes of thinking and probably consuming as much electricity as a kettle.

It’s also implemented terribly within Siri - seems to take up to 30 seconds to respond and is far more dumbed down than using the app so it’s a bit useless.

tim wrote: Wed Nov 05, 2025 12:16 pm The trick is I think not treating it like a search engine, and the more wordy you are with your prompts the more helpful it is.

I was at the Azure Dev Conference recently and Microsoft were jamming their agentic AI down our throats for 3 days solid. Feels like they've got all their eggs in this basket.

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tim wrote: Wed Nov 05, 2025 12:16 pm The trick is I think not treating it like a search engine, and the more wordy you are with your prompts the more helpful it is.

Totally that, I brief it like an intern and with baby steps to walk it through what I'm trying to achieve, which has really helped. Basically brain dump a load of thoughts and ideas into it to see how it brings them together.

Mito Man wrote: Wed Nov 05, 2025 12:29 pm I’ll tell you what infuriates me with ChatGPT. When it offers to do something unprompted and then totally fails at an assignment it set itself.
A common thing for me has been asking it for help with fusion360. It will then keep prompting me to draw the 3D file itself. I say ok and it gives out total garbage after 2 minutes of thinking and probably consuming as much electricity as a kettle.

The more I agree to ChatGPT's helpful suggestions, the worse and more generic the outputs become, they're just a waste. I like how NotebookLM is basically an autistic researcher, it doesn't say too much, it just gives the facts with citations and zero fluff. Nor does it suggest pointless tasks either.