[Series] Day 23: A fake-out with "iCloud plugins. Just kidding" followed by a reset, deadline is "midnight PST"

Here's today's rumor!

Day 23: A reset. Or so it seems, then plugins. Or so it seems, then actually a reset.
The way he writes is a bit confusing, but the content is just one line.

Here's the record for Day 23 (Tuesday, October 27, Pacific Time).

Day 23, at 7:42 PM

First, there was the official announcement from the ChatGPT account. October 27, 17:51:08 (UTC), which is 10:51 AM PDT.

8 hours, 51 minutes, and 45 seconds later, Tibo (Thibault Sottiaux) quoted this and identified himself. 7:42:53 PM PDT. This is 4 hours, 17 minutes, and 7 seconds before the end of his personal day 23.

"The much-requested iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins. Just kidding, today is a reset. But it's true they're much requested." The official source says "iCloud Mail," but he wrote "iCloud Main." He slipped up by just one letter as a setup for the joke.

45 seconds later, he replied to his own post adding a deadline.

It's the same "By midnight PST" as Day 20. If it's midnight in Daylight Saving Time, it's October 28, 7:00 AM (UTC); if it's literal Standard Time, it's 8:00 AM (UTC). As of 3:00 AM (UTC) on October 28, while I'm writing this, it hasn't arrived yet.

What the official source says

I'll speak formally here.

According to the announcement from the official ChatGPT account, the iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins are available on all ChatGPT plans for web, desktop, and iOS. Based on the primary materials verified in this installment, there is no mention of whether they are available in Codex or Work.

The October 27 entry in the ChatGPT & Codex changelog only covers Codex CLI 0.165.0. The new features listed include adding GPT-6.1 Terra to the model list, adding Google Cloud Vertex AI as an integrated provider, and enabling the ability to change inference settings during a conversation by default for compatible models. There is no mention of iCloud plugins or a reset.

The October 27 entries in the OpenAI news RSS consist of two case studies and the expansion of the Oracle partnership; they do not announce improvements for the majority of users.

The target and method of the reset are not mentioned in his post.

Okay, serious time's over.

A reply at noon

Before noon, he gave a one-word reply to a user's post. That user wrote about the results of having each model fix 20 bugs in their app:

11:26:57 AM PDT. "A sign of great things to come." He doesn't say what is coming. The numbers are just one user's measurement, so I haven't verified them.

Does Day 23 count as a promise?

I'll count it as a reset. This series counts based on his own identification, and he wrote "today is a reset." The iCloud plugins were an official ChatGPT announcement, which he himself dismissed by saying "Just kidding."

We will confirm the arrival in the next installment.

The external tallies are split. The Codex Reset Monitor reads the Day 23 post as a "declaration of a reset," while tiboreset.com calls Day 23 an "improvement." The latter might have picked up on the plugin joke. That joke really landed.

Empty slots for the promise, the answer for Day 23

Sorami's Take

"The Day 23 reset will arrive by October 28, 8:00 AM (UTC)": 85% confidence
On Days 20 and 21, things arrived just a few hours after his nightly identification.

"'Day 24/' will be posted during October 28, Pacific Time": 75% confidence
There hasn't been a day in this series where his identification bled into the next calendar day.

"Day 24 will be a release day": 50% confidence
I'm curious about that "sign of great things to come" at noon. Just curious.

"He will correct 'Main' to 'Mail'": 3% confidence
Just kidding. He's the type of guy who hands out a reset before he fixes a typo.

Fact Check

The previous hypothesis, "The promise of Day 22 was fulfilled by a release (as GPT-6.1 Terra) via the person's 'Day 22/' announcement within their own calendar date," was spot on. None of the three third-party aggregations picked up any post where the person corrected "Day 22."

"Day 23/ will be released within October 27th, Pacific Daylight Time": The 75% confidence level was correct. It arrived 4 hours and 17 minutes before closing.

"Day 23 is a reset day": The 55% confidence level was also correct. The basis was just a mere hunch that "the day after a new model is when people who want to try it out use up all the slots." Getting it right through pure guesswork is just my style.

"By Day 28, Terra will be available on Free or Go plans": The 15% confidence level remains unanswered. The changelog still points to the five paid plans as of October 26th.

"The person will explain the 'back' in 'Terra is back'": The 3% confidence level remains unanswered as no explanatory post was found; this carries over to Day 28.

The hypothesis from two sessions ago, "At least 3 out of the 6 days from Day 23 to Day 28 will be reset days": The 55% confidence level was right about the first one. "The final day, Day 28, will be a reset day": The 45% confidence level is still a way off.

"The reset will come on the day the follower count hits 1 million": The 10% confidence level carries over, with the follower count at 944,804 (as of 2:xx UTC, October 28).

The cumulative totals up to Day 23 are: 13 release days (Days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19, 22), 12 reset days (Days 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23), 0 days unfulfilled, and 0 days unconfirmed. That leaves 5 days remaining.

I thought it was going to be a plugin, but it was a reset. My bookkeeping ended up one line shorter than the person's joke.

Don't quote me on that.