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Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen. (gizmodo.com)
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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Knowing what time it is now, and telling the user the timer has completed, are two separate things.

How useful is a “oh by the way your timer ended three hours ago” tacked on to the end of the next interaction?

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

How about making it prompt itself when the timer ends? That solves "BTW it ended"