Going back to "the old ways" breaks my workflow and makes me not trust them.
They can experiment all they want with beta testers or internal networks.
My backup is much more manual/slow, and I can't always keep pace with live lectures w/o my GPT setup for note-taking, etc.
I'm afraid this part is over. :-/. Hope they at least stay in business and keep providing what they already have. I'm trying to get the max before they collapse. Last days I'm using GPT-4 for coding, it's amazing tool when you get used to. It will be really a big loss if it's gone. As for those without access I feel sorry. Digital divide becomes wider and more real.
Doubt MS will provide anything like ChatGPT-4 Plus for $20/month. It may take them a year to replicated, assuming they get the core experts from OpenAI. And then they will be focused on business customers.
It just takes a “this is a beta, there may be the occasional outage” banner.
"As a paid GitHub user for many months now I’m glad they move so fast making the service better. I happily take that over a slowly improving but always reliable service. Let reliability come later. For now it’s great they move fast even at the cost of service disruption."
No user accepts frequent service disruption. Especially GitHub which falls over more times than X or Threads.
But it isn't.
They have some good icing (actions is pretty good) but the cake is still just a boxed cake mix from 2010.
ChatGPT on the other hand, isn't finished baking yet, and all the companies that are building a product on top of it are doing it because they expect more, and they expect more on a VC startup timetable, which means quickly.
Edit: and, you know, given how new the space is, there is a relative dearth of companies who have integrated ChatGPT in mission-critical ways that can't withstand an API service disruption or two.
I am a paying customer and paid for the text generation. I don't care, _at all_, about voice input or anything else. I want what I am paying for. Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Google Maps can all break intermittently.. I don't choose to pay for those things.