I’m sitting in a restaurant and didn’t notice the ringing until I read this article… but it is there. Usually I only really consciously notice it while falling asleep, never really thought anything of it.

LOL I keep getting, “ Oops, an error occurred! Too many failed attempts. Try again”… my login codes are mysteriously not working when trying to delete my OpenAI/ChatGPT account.

When I type in 'DELETE', the button just stays disabled for me. When I tried to make the request through their 'Privacy' portal, I receive a mysterious 'Session expired' error message, and now I've been locked out with the message 'Too many failed attempts'...

Did you type in your email? It seems already filled in because it shows you your email address as the placeholder text but you need to fill in.

Oops, my mistake. That worked. - Thanks.

Pour one out for the dev who got called on saturday morning to break the account deletion process

If he breaks it for a day or two half the deletions won't happen.

That said, I doubt there's very many.

The lament I think is more that this is a kind of "dark pattern" that's not really regulated. IMO it should be as easy to delete an account as it is to sign up. To my mind, this is very similar to subscribing/unsubscribing which IIRC is regulated now.

The overall point I'm making is that it is "gross" when companies do stuff like this and yet there's zero accountability. Or when it comes to reliability of account deletion tech companies put up their hands and say "whoops technology is hard."

They tried!

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/...

https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2025/07/23/eighth-cir...

Can i gat hack's

Probably, on the backend: “Server Error 500: Users deleting OpenAI Accounts too fast. Try again later.”

Make sure you enter both DELETE and your email above.

It took me a minute to see this.

Yeah they intentionally broke it. So on Monday morning, instead of just deleting my account, I will be terminating all of the accounts in our company and moving them all to Anthropic. Keep it up, Sam!

It claims that I can’t end my subscription because I signed up on another platform. How odd, once money is involved suddenly our AGI contender can’t implement basic features. Or I’m a fool somehow.

If you signed up via e.g. iOS then OpenAI literally is not allowed to manage your subscription. They do not have the capability to do so.

Is that other platform Apple?

Failed logging in again to delete my OpenAI/ChatGPT account with, “ An unexpected error occurred while creating your session.”

Same thing on Safari as on Firefox 45 minutes later… I’ll have to try from the laptop when I’m home.

yeah, does not work for me either. Whatever I put in the DELETE input field, the button is still inactive,

Edit: Had to "submit a request".

So glad they let me request my account and data deleted, really grateful /s

I’m genuinely wondering the same thing, seems like at least a precursor.

ComputerPoker.ai

We trained PyTorch models on solved poker scenarios for post-flop, turn, and river situations. The planned "killer feature" is to give users feedback on their poker play in the flow of a simulated poker tournament or simulated cash game scenario. The goal is to play against "GTO Bots" (Game Theory Optimal Bots) to learn how to play closer to GTO.^1

Poker has been a passion of mine for a few years now, I find the game incredibly intellectually stimulating as well as a tremendous catalyst for personal growth, and this project has been a great way to channel that energy.

The web app uses Django/Channels/WebSockets. We've built an internal discounted CFR solver as well, hopefully building up to multiway scenarios in the future. The webapp is still in Beta/gated, and you're interested in learning more please email contact at surlesol dot com.

We are thinking of pricing $8/month or $74.99/year, with the rationale that this will be far less expensive than learning by experience at even micro stakes for online poker, with better feedback for learning, and at least we make it explicit that you're competing against bots ;-)

1. I am aware that GTO play is not always optimal, especially in live poker where live tells are available, and often exploitative strategies fare better than pure GTO. The target audience for ComputerPoker.ai is not hardcore poker pros, there's plenty of existing software for that, but rather those individuals looking to get acquainted with what GTO play "feels like." Then, with this knowledge in hand, knowing what the GTO play would be given various assumptions about our range and a reasonable opponent's range, we can deviate from the GTO play as deemed necessary.

If you want someone who knows almost nothing about poker to see if you can teach them how to play, let me know :D

> Especially when uv solves literally all of the problems you're describing.

How does uv solve the “write once, run anywhere” problem like go?

(I’m not being sarcastic, I don’t know that much about uv and perhaps am lacking the mental model for understanding this)

> How does uv solve the “write once, run anywhere” problem like go?

Here's an examply Python script from the uv website[0]:

  #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
  #
  # /// script
  # requires-python = ">=3.12"
  # dependencies = ["httpx"]
  # ///

  import httpx

  print(httpx.get("https://example.com"))

This will auto-install Python 3.12 (or greater) in a per-script virtual environment, along with the httpx package from pypi & immediately execute the script, on any system that has uv.

[0] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#using-a-shebang-to...

UV is a drop-in for pip, rather than a replacement. It functions differently than pip behind the scenes, which is why it's faster, but when you use it, it's basically still pip. Except it makes everything easy. You create your venv with uv venv, you update packages with uv sync, you run things without activating your venv with uv run... It uses the pyproject.toml, so it's very easy to share things like linters and build tools. Then when it's time to deploy, you can compile your pyproject.toml to a requirements.txt file and use it in any Python container image. Which is very handy when you work with something like Azure Container Functions which don't come with UV (and you probably don't want to use an UV image or install UV in your build process).

I've been using it for so long now that I recently couldn't remember how to use Python without it, when one of our BI guys needed some help. Which was ridiculously embarrassing.

I don't think it really compares to Go though. It's not as straight forward if you work on different python distributions. It's also not as easy to work with something like micro Python compared to targeting a specific embedded platform with Go.

> "I'm only at 53 tools at the moment."

Sorry if this sounds overly critical, but what do you mean "only at 53 tools?" Was there a memo I missed about a competition to host LLM-built tools?

Maybe you’re ignoring the context that he’s replying to the author and saying “only” because he’s comparing his 53 with the author’s 150+

I read the article, and I saw Simon's note about the 150+ HTML apps, I just don't get it.

There’s nothing to really get. There’s no deep meaning to the numbers or the comparison

Same. I was on academic probation freshman year. Managed to recover and graduate. But I didn’t get diagnosed with ADHD/ASD until I was 38.

I really enjoyed how your words made me _feel._ They encouraged me to "keep fighting the good fight" when it comes to avoiding social media, et. al.

I do Vibe Code occasionally, Claude did a decent job with Terraform and SaltStack recently, but the words ring true in my head about how AI weakens my thinking, especially when it comes to Python or any programming language. Tread carefully indeed. And reading a book does help - I've been tearing through the Dune books after putting them off too long at my brother's recommendation. Very interesting reflections in those books on power/human nature that may apply in some ways to our current predicament.

At any rate, thank you for the thoughtful & eloquent words of caution.

Doesn't Python weaken your thinking about how computers actually work?

You could make the same argument for any language. It still requires you to think and implement the solution yourself, just at a certain level of abstraction.

It may - but it doesn't weaken your ability to think computationally

you mean by calling arrays "lists"?

Curious what age you started letting them ride the tube on their own? I’m in London as well and we’re starting to have the “walk to school” conversation but it is still early days and a 15 minute jaunt so not nothing.

for travel to school was 10, but was direct no changes and only a short walk the other end. then for social etc from around 12, by 13 travelling all over london on trains, buses, tubes, albeit always with friends, then alone probably 14

Mysterious AND important.