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OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

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Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

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The release of plugins was underwhelming for a lot of users, I wonder if they're worried about the same thing happening again. I had fun making a plugin when they were first announced but the developer experience was clunky and frustrating, and there was a lot of confusion around how the plugin store actually worked. I haven't made the time to convert my plugin into a GPT but I'm planning to, hopefully it'll be a bit…

I suspect they're a bit like Google... wonderful tech but terrible product company. Everything outside of the quality of their models is suspect: - GPTs are super quirky w/ weird limitations... try processing an image file larger than an emoji from base 64 text and watch it render the base64 string in a code window and give up after about 1k tokens. The vast majority of the time it doesn't even try and hallucinates p…

> wonderful tech but terrible product company

i couldn't have said it better, something i've been feeling for a long time. they have all the engineering expertise, why not the same for product?

it's even more surprising given Altman's ycom experience, it's not like this is a classic engineer-run corp

Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

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I suspect they're a bit like Google... wonderful tech but terrible product company. Everything outside of the quality of their models is suspect: - GPTs are super quirky w/ weird limitations... try processing an image file larger than an emoji from base 64 text and watch it render the base64 string in a code window and give up after about 1k tokens. The vast majority of the time it doesn't even try and hallucinates p…

> wonderful tech but terrible product company i couldn't have said it better, something i've been feeling for a long time. they have all the engineering expertise, why not the same for product? it's even more surprising given Altman's ycom experience, it's not like this is a classic engineer-run corp

On top of that the CTO has a product, not engineering background. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

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> wonderful tech but terrible product company i couldn't have said it better, something i've been feeling for a long time. they have all the engineering expertise, why not the same for product? it's even more surprising given Altman's ycom experience, it's not like this is a classic engineer-run corp

On top of that the CTO has a product, not engineering background. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

but the president was the CTO of Stripe

Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

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The release of plugins was underwhelming for a lot of users, I wonder if they're worried about the same thing happening again. I had fun making a plugin when they were first announced but the developer experience was clunky and frustrating, and there was a lot of confusion around how the plugin store actually worked. I haven't made the time to convert my plugin into a GPT but I'm planning to, hopefully it'll be a bit…

As far as UX, and a product, chatGPT is terrible!

Astounding and blows my mind for a 80+b dollar company. The model and tech (and team) is that value of course, but how can't they at the very most basic level, clean up the 'sidebar'. Prompts search and GPT labelling. Even when they had the plugins, most ppl didn't know you had to click on the GPT4 button to revial, because why would they...nothing indicated to (like an arrow). Total amateur hr in the UX and DX dept and they treat they're paid customers like trash.

If this is how Sam Altman thought product leaders at YC to build product I'm shocked. Cause OpenAI is way behind where they should be will literally a million dollars thrown at improving this things in a cpl weeks...and they've had a yr

Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

#48

As is, actions in custom GPTs are almost useless right now, since you need to approve each and every request. Hopefully they fix that.

I’ve had the opposite problem, where it will initiate a request too early in a sequence defined in the instructions.

Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

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I don't mean to be harsh, but is this journalism now? When you write an article and say something has been corroborated by your "sources", does that mean "forwarded to you by anonymous HN posters"? You don't have an IRL relationship with a source who has created a GPT? You can't throw a stone in the valley without hitting somebody who has.

That has always been journalism. “Sources” encompasses all sources from whistleblowers to employee leaks to random overheard conversations on the internet or AFK.

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Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

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appreciated, but do you mind forwarding the email itself? it's not that I don't trust you, just helpful to have. I won't use your email for anything. edit: thanks to all who sent.

I don't mean to be harsh, but is this journalism now? When you write an article and say something has been corroborated by your "sources", does that mean "forwarded to you by anonymous HN posters"? You don't have an IRL relationship with a source who has created a GPT? You can't throw a stone in the valley without hitting somebody who has.

I think the crux of the request was that they didn't get the email that "each and every creator of a GPT" was apparently supposed to get.

I've created almost a dozen GPTs that I and some others use almost every day, and I didn't get the email either. I think it's reasonable to ask for someone (even a stranger) to forward you a missing email.

Edit: Asked a friend and he didn't get any email either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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