ChatGPT felt dumb on April 2, 2026.

I was blown away when I asked Gemini to generate a song based on our chat. I usually stick to LLMs for code and work tasks, but this was my first dive into music generation. The lyrics were eerily tied to our conversation, almost like the model remembered and personalized them. The experience was thrilling and left me thinking the tool is far more creative than I imagined.

I asked the model for a throw‑back picture of a 2006 college frat party shot on a Motorola Razr, just to see if it could nail the vibe of my youth. The generated image hit the mark perfectly—like a snapshot from my own memories. Seeing the exact aesthetic and details made me grin, and I felt the tool really understood the nostalgic request.

I’ve relied on ChatGPT to turn a list of five‑six addresses into a clickable Google Maps link that lets me instantly view and plan routes—something that’s been a lifesaver at work. Today the bot just refused to create the link, only giving me a plain list to copy manually. That sudden loss of a core feature feels frustrating and slows me down.

I kept using Claude Code across several projects and kept bumping into the same structural messes—huge god functions, stray console.logs, empty catch blocks, and a flood of any types. It felt like the AI was rushing to make things work without caring about maintainability, so I built vibecop to catch those recurring antipatterns and finally see the code quality I needed.

I used to get solid chats, especially for dating advice, and even the limited‑time premium felt better, but the free tier was still useful. Lately, after a couple of good replies, it flips back to a basic mode that just parrots what I say and asks if I want an explanation or a plan. It’s become repetitive and frustrating, so I’m using it less and less.