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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

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  1. the_duke · · 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. koyote · · focus · HN ↗
      I think the fact that Sol 6 appeared higher than Sonnet 4 on benchmarks shows that benchmarks are completely rubbish and useless.

      I've never seen such a large degradation in intelligence in a model until I tried out Sol 6 after having used 5.6 almost exclusively for several weeks.

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