If you’ve ever dropped a few lines into ChatGPT and watched it choke out a red error message, you’ve probably thought, “Well, it’s broken.” It’s not. Your AI isn’t broken — you’re just talking to it without context. The Call That Sparked It A friend of mine called recently — the kind of call I get two or three times a day — frustrated because ChatGPT “wasn’t working.” He pasted what looked like the start of an email into GPT-5, hit enter… red error. Tried again in a new chat…

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