---
title: "When ChatGPT tries to fix something"
source_url: https://youtube.com/shorts/qAKpYujaFC0
captured_at: 2026-05-10
author: "Entrepreneur Sanctuary"
contributor: "ชิดชนก"
platform: youtube
---
# When ChatGPT tries to fix something

youtube video by **Entrepreneur Sanctuary**, 1m03s, uploaded 2026-05-06. URL: https://youtube.com/shorts/qAKpYujaFC0

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- 2026-05-10 20:20 by ชิดชนก

## Description
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Nathan Doan (@nathandoan) is a Vietnamese-American comedy creator with 865,000 TikTok followers and 12.9 million likes. He makes skits. This one went viral — and if you have spent more than ten minutes using ChatGPT for any serious task, you will understand immediately why.

The setup: he asks someone to cut a sandwich. They cut it lengthways down the top of the bread — wrong. He stops them. He asks them to fix it. They rotate the sandwich ninety degrees and try to cut straight through the meat, vegetables, and everything inside it — the sandwich is now no longer structurally a sandwich. He stops them a second time. He asks them to fix it. They go back to the original mistake — cutting lengthways down the top again. He has to scrap everything and start completely over from scratch.

That is not an exaggeration of how AI tools handle correction loops. That is a fairly accurate recreation.

The pattern: you give a clear instruction. The output is wrong in a specific way. You tell it to fix the specific thing. It applies a correction that is tangentially rel