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1. the_duke · 1790703020 · focus · HN ↗

   The GPT 6 release was ... not great.

   Sol 6 was so bad that I switched over to Opus 5.5 exclusively.

   Huge regression compared to Sol 5.6, often doing really dumb things. Same for Luna.

   Even Astra is very unreliable for coding. Brilliant for vision, sometimes just great, but it also often does very stupid things.

   I'm a bit sour on OpenAI right now and skeptical that 6.1 will be much different.

   (Note: this is after preferring and shilling Codex/OpenAI models for the last half year)

   1. trentnix · 1790706844 · focus · HN ↗

      That's not been my experience. My experience with Astra (I use it at home writing Go and C) for coding has been fantastic. Opus 5.5 (I use it for work writing C#) seems faster than Opus 5, but it doesn't seem demonstrably better to my eyes and is still prone to word vomit.

      1. chronogram · 1790714964 · focus · HN ↗

         Same here. Astra has been the best thing I've seen. Astra on Low has been my favourite thing so far. Higher levels just mean more cruft, not useful.

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