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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I've definitely experienced this.

I used ChatGPT to write cover letters based on my resume before, and other tasks.

I used to give it data and tell chatGPT to "do X with this data". It worked great.
In a separate chat, I told it to "do Y with this data", and it also knocked it out of the park.

Weeks later, excited about the tech, I repeat the process. I tell it to "do x with this data". It does fine.

In a completely separate chat, I tell it to "do Y with this data"... and instead it gives me X. I tell it to "do Z with this data", and it once again would really rather just do X with it.

For a while now, I have had to feed it more context and tailored prompts than I previously had to.