Seems like the only way to explore differnt outcomes is by editing messages and losing whatever was there before the edit.
Very annoying and I dont understand why they all refuse to implement such a simple feature.
This chrome extension used to work to allow you to traverse the tree: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatgpt-conversatio...
I copied it a while ago and maintain my own version but it isnt on the store, just for personal use.
I assume they dont implement it because it is such a niche user that wants this and so isnt worth the UI distraction
I needed to pull some detail from a large chat with many branches and regenerations the other day. I remembered enough context that I had no problem using search and finding the exact message I needed.
And then I clicked on it and arrived at the bottom of the last message in final branch of the tree. From there, you scroll up one message, hover to check if there are variants, and recursively explore branches as they arise.
I'd love to have a way to view the tree and I'd settle for a functional search.
Ideally I'd like to be able to edit both my replies and the responses at any point like a linear document in managing an ongoing context.
Guess that's something I need to check out.
Because it would let you peek behind the smoke and mirrors.
Why do you think there's a randomized seed you can't touch?
I use gptel and a folder full of markdown with some light automation to get an adequate approximation of this, but it really should be built in (it would be more efficient for the vendors as well, tons of cache optimization opportunitirs).
They let you rollback to the previous conversation state
I would also really like to see a mode that colors by top-n "next best" ratio, or something similar.
Also, these companies have the most advanced agentic coding systems on the planet. It should be able to fucking implement tree-like chat ...