GPT 5.5 on Medium is all I use lately, I don't understand why anyone would pay drastically more for slightly more, when Opus has been good enough for a year now to do most things.
GPT 5.5 on Medium is all I use lately, I don't understand why anyone would pay drastically more for slightly more, when Opus has been good enough for a year now to do most things.
You unknowingly substituted the name of another model when you’re otherwise talking about the competitor fwiw. Some if those in the reply chain didn’t even seem to notice.
That’s a little telling of the state of ai atm though isn’t it? It’s all pretty similar. The latest Opus/GPT/Gemini/Deepseek/Kimi on medium does indeed do the job
You're right, I meant to write: Opus for all of the above. I do think a lot of it is roughly similar, for most use cases, anything after Opus 4.5+ is "good enough" basically.
It would be a little strange but not that strange for someone to have an idiosyncratic preference for GPT-5.5. It's still available as a Codex model (I think? It's selectable in Pi, not Codex itself), and it might perform differently enough from later GPT models that someone prefers it.
To your point, though, I don't know if I've noticed that big of an impact going from 5.5 to newer GPT models. If I had to switch back, I'm not sure how much I'd miss the newer ones. People talk about e.g. Opus 4.6 similarly, I've noticed.
The bigger change in OpenAI-land IMO is the models got cheaper, generally.
Why not GPT-{5.6, 6, 6.1} Sol? They're all cheaper than GPT 5.5, and as "smart", if not "smarter", at least to me.
Though, it has been a while since I've used 5.5.
Surely they mean Opus-5.5...
Yeah, whoops.
I have no data to support this, but when working on SaaS systems I find anthropic models more effective.
But for webdev, deep research, code review, and a few other tasks I find the current 6.1 sol better.
But I use both. And I use codex more.