Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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The first time I used ChatGPT, the service crashed! I clicked a few times and the page...

The first time I used ChatGPT, the service crashed! I clicked a few times and the page kept showing "Server timeout". Looking at the friend group, everyone was furious, saying,...

December 29, 2025 · 1 min read

The first time I used ChatGPT, the service crashed!

I clicked a few times and the page kept showing "Server timeout".

Looking at the friend group, everyone was furious, saying, "It will take a long time to fix it." I silently took out my computer, used its high-performance chip, and used local Python to run a simple crawler.

I actually analyzed the "ChatGPT access bottleneck": there was something wrong with the server's access mapping.

So I changed the next two functions and actually fixed the service!

Instantly, the ChatGPT page is available.

Then I used shell to deploy a "distributed service forwarding mechanism" and protect ChatGPT's fragile load service in real time.

People in the group asked me what I did, and I just smiled.

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