User deletes OpenAI dot, citing Astra's poor memory and instruction following
A user removed OpenAI's dot feature, complaining that Astra ignores instructions, has no taste and has weak memory, and says Grok Bot is a better product.
I deleted my OpenAI dot. I might try again. But it just recreates the same idiotic language and boneheaded choices that Astra makes. I understand that, structurally, it's supposed to be "one chat to rule them all" but it's spectacularly bad at following instructions, has no taste, and is mostly just generating noise in the background. It's got the personality of a defective toaster and isn't much more useful than memory. Grok Bot is far superior as a product, even though the underlying model is much less intelligent. My biggest gripes: 1) Not a single current OpenAI model has taste 2) They all have shitty personality, and constantly hide behind academic hedging (I literally call them out saying "that was a lot of words to say 'we can't know anything'" 3) The memory function doesn't seem to work very well. At least not compared to Gemini. Even Gemini leaves a lot to be desired. I understand that everyone is still figuring out how to create a unified experience with memory and chief of staff and all this stuff is gonna take time to figure out. But it really seems like OpenAI is really only good at making chatbots and single threaded agents. To be fair, ChatGPT still isn't as actively condescending and hostile as Claude and Grok. Grok becomes insanely passive aggressive and pissy when you point out basic flaws in it's reasoning and research. Claude will weaponize any personal information you give it, so I've defaulted to only using it for research. But even then, I have to avoid telling Claude anything about the purpose of my research, or my prior beliefs, because then it just pivots to attacking both of those instead of just doing the research. That means I have to be extremely terse with it. I have ChatGPT do primary research and framework building, then I move the files over to Claude and say "make them pretty" and literally nothing else. Sure, I know these things are all great at coding, but if these companies want adoption beyond tech bros with zero emotional intelligence, they're gonna have to fix the attitude problems that all these models have. Gemini is by far the most user friendly AI right now (at least of the American shops) but the problem is it's still pretty dumb by comparison.