I disagree. From the average user perspective, it's quite confusing to see half a dozen models to choose from in the UI. In an ideal world, ChatGPT would just abstract away the decision. So I don't need to be an expert in the relatively minor differences between each model to have a good experience.
Vs in the API, I want to have very strict versioning of the models I'm using. And so letting me run by own evals and pick the model that works best.
> it's quite confusing to see half a dozen models to choose from in the UI. In an ideal world, ChatGPT would just abstract away the decision
Supposedly that’s coming with GPT 5.
I agree on both naming on stability. However, this wasn't my point.
They still have a mess of models in ChatGPT for now, and it doesn't look like this is going to get better immediately (even though for GPT-5, they ostensibly want to unify them). You have to choose among all of them anyway.
I'd like to be able to choose 4.1.