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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#131

In the only one that feels that OpenAI has bots/commenters on payroll on all this kind of news downplaying Claude and stating how much better Codex is? There is too much and there are too many, and some of their takes don’t fly if you use Claude daily.

Of course they do. As do all of the other companies pushing their product these days.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy, you are far from what it requires, we are probably talking 3B+, but note that this is just codex, obviously codex is also doing automatic adversarial with the regular zoo (gemini-3.1-pro-preview, opus-4.6/4.7, gpt-5.3-codex, minimax-2.7, glm-5.1, mimo-2 (now 2.5) and so-on, you get the gist) :)

what is that task doing???

The correction question is: what isn't that task doing?

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#133

In the only one that feels that OpenAI has bots/commenters on payroll on all this kind of news downplaying Claude and stating how much better Codex is? There is too much and there are too many, and some of their takes don’t fly if you use Claude daily.

Yeah, it's eerie, same with how everyone seems to have forgotten that OpenAI betrayed democracy by committing to work on unsupervised autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#134

Please consider the ethical aspects of giving money to OpenAI versus alternatives.

You need to be more specific. OpenAI's commitment to assist the Trump administration with domestic mass surveillance seems to have been largely memory-holed.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heard this analogy elsewhere, but worth repeating: AI is like having the greatest developer who ever lived, but she is always on 4 beers.

personifying ai is incredibly cringe no matter how weird your comparison is

It's an analogy.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#136
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Just tried it out for a prod issue was experiencing. Claude never does this sort of thing, I had it write an update statement after doing some troubleshooting, and I said “okay let’s write this in a transaction with a rollback” and GPT-5.5 gave me the old “okay, BEGIN TRAN; -- put the query here commit; I feel like I haven’t had to prod a model to actually do what I told it to in awhile so that was a shock. I guess t…

Can't tell if above is good or bad.

I mean, I was doing triage, so wanted an immediate fix. The actual issue is we’re getting some exploding complexity when double checking the action the API is taking is valid in the data. So that needs to be refactored. I suppose it reduces token usage, but Claude Opus will happily do exactly what I want it to.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#137
post #37

Just tried it out for a prod issue was experiencing. Claude never does this sort of thing, I had it write an update statement after doing some troubleshooting, and I said “okay let’s write this in a transaction with a rollback” and GPT-5.5 gave me the old “okay, BEGIN TRAN; -- put the query here commit; I feel like I haven’t had to prod a model to actually do what I told it to in awhile so that was a shock. I guess t…

Sorry if I’m not getting it, but what was wrong exactly? Is the issue that it merely put “-- put the query here” in the reply, instead of repeating it again?

If so, I’m not sure I’d even consider that a problem. If the goal is for it to give you a query to run, and you ask it “let’s do it in a transaction”, it’s a reasonable thing for it to simply inform you, “yeah you can just type begin first” since it’s assuming you’re going to be pasting the query in anyway. And yeah, it does use fewer tokens, assuming the query was long. Similar to how, if it gave me a command to run, and I say “I’m getting a permission denied”, it would be reasonable for it to say “yeah do it as root, put sudo before the command”, and it’s IMO reasonable if it didn’t repeat the whole thing verbatim just with the word “sudo” first.

But if the context was that you actually expected it to run the query for you, and instead it just said “here, you run it”, then yeah that’s lazy and I’d understand the shock.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coding (along with docs, tests obviously), rewriting a huge chunk of the KVM hypervisor (in Kernel 7, started in the -rc2) and KSM and other modules, can't say too much about it yet (might do an announcement in coming weeks) . The coding is automated but the plan took days of manual arguing (with all models possible) prior (while doing other things during waiting times as I currently manage 70 repos for an upcoming r…

Please do a post about this (though I realize that takes time). This sounds amazing. I have always dreamed of doing this too but just don't have the budget.

Specifically, write a post about this and do not have Claude write a post about this.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#139

Please consider the ethical aspects of giving money to OpenAI versus alternatives.

You need to be more specific. OpenAI's commitment to assist the Trump administration with domestic mass surveillance seems to have been largely memory-holed.

You're right, unfortunately. How naive of me to think that at least the HN audience would care.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#140

In the only one that feels that OpenAI has bots/commenters on payroll on all this kind of news downplaying Claude and stating how much better Codex is? There is too much and there are too many, and some of their takes don’t fly if you use Claude daily.

Yeah, it's eerie, same with how everyone seems to have forgotten that OpenAI betrayed democracy by committing to work on unsupervised autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance.

Honestly I find comments like yours much more eerie. By all accounts they never agreed to any of that but you say it with such confidence like it's a fact.
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