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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. laurels-marts · 1790750054 · focus · HN ↗

      100% in agreement. I pay for OAI sub and also use Codex exclusively at work for the past 8 months.

      I tried out fable 5.1 the day it was released and coming from gpt-5.6-sol I was truly mind blown (both in terms of code and prose it was generating - outputs I could finally enjoy reading and looking at).

      Then when opus 5.5 came out, again same thing + far cheaper and faster.

      I went from using OAI exclusively the entire year to a point now where i haven’t touched one of their models in at least a few weeks now.

      I think OAI has lost the plot. OAI models simplify have no taste. And I don’t mean in front-end design way (although that too). They have no taste in how the model writes code, how it writes prose, how it writes in-line comments, how it writes documentation, or how it even picks variable names. There’s just no taste throughout.

      Anthropic models are very thoughtful and have so much taste all around.

      1. stasomatic · 1790770492 · focus · HN ↗

         I cancelled Claude because of its thoughtful prose. I prefer one liner responses from OAI models.

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