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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

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Post by AlexCoventry »

int3trap wrote: post #140
AlexCoventry wrote: post #133

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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.

The Trump administration's handling of Anthropic showed that regardless of what the contract or the law says or means, they will severely penalize any vendor who refuses their demands. And OpenAI stepped right into that relationship immediately after the administration showed that. So either they were signing up for a supply-chain risk designation and whatever other punishments the Trump administration dreams up, or they're complying.

If this sounds crazy to you, though, I'd like to know, and understand why. I miss ChatGPT/Codex.

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

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Post by gigatexal »

Sembiance wrote: post #109
gigatexal wrote: post #17

what's the real world comparison to opus 4.7 fellow coders?

I gave 4.6, 4.7 and GPT 5.5 the same prompt and task to reverse engineer a collection of sample vector files from an obscure Amiga CAD program and create a detailed txt specification and a python converter that converts to SVG and produce a report so I can visually verify. 4.6 did very well. 90% perfect on first try, got to 100% with just a few followups. 4.7 failed horribly. First produced garbage output and claimed…

Interesting that 4.7 failed like that. Seems 5.5 is impressive but is oh so expensive.

Would be interesting if you ran your same test with Deepseek v4 and some of the other Chinese models.

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

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Post by deaux »

jamwil wrote: post #119
pixel_popping wrote: post #86

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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…

I’m vague on a specific reason for this feeling because there are a few to choose from and no one overpowers the other, but the emotion that comes to mind when I read this is disgust. As a society I feel we will look back on the subsidized opulence of this moment with total and utter contempt.

I know exactly the feeling you mean. I get a much stronger feeling of that when I talk with friends who frequently take a plane for a 250 mile trip which has a world-class comfortable high-speed train connection with very frequent trains, each taking less than 3 hours. I'm sure you have friends who would do this in this situation - do you feel the same disgust when you hear them talking about such choices?

I still haven't seen a single person who actually cares about the environment and has willingly made significant sacrifices for it, who clamors about the environmental cost of AI. Every time I see someone do it it's someone who never cared about this before, and still doesn't really. Who buys plenty of new clothes and furniture, loves a good burger, has the latest iPhone, flies 4 times per year.

Maybe you're the unicorn in which case fair enough, you've earned the right to feel disgusted.

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Post by owebmaster »

fl4regun wrote: post #81
pixel_popping wrote: post #66

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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???

Interesting is that they had the opportunity to explain but decided that hyping it more made more sense. 3 billion tokens!!1!

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

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Post by owebmaster »

pixel_popping wrote: post #86
lowdude wrote: post #69

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That’s actually crazy, what kind of task is that? And is that a recurring kind of task like some analysis, or coding related?

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…

> (might do an announcement in coming weeks).

Don't be surprised if/when people ignore your AI slop

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

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Post by owebmaster »

Urahandystar wrote: post #93
pixel_popping wrote: post #86

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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 an update when you're ready, this sounds like madness to me so I'd love to see what the output is. Whatever it is I have to know.

Typical AI psychosis. They might notice it soon or stay in this condition for months.

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

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Post by owebmaster »

jamwil wrote: post #119
pixel_popping wrote: post #86

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…

I’m vague on a specific reason for this feeling because there are a few to choose from and no one overpowers the other, but the emotion that comes to mind when I read this is disgust. As a society I feel we will look back on the subsidized opulence of this moment with total and utter contempt.

There's no opulence in spending tokens for entertainment. Vibecoding your own game is the new viral game.

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

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Post by psteinweber »

jvidalv wrote: post #114

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.

I find that very obvious too. It started (visibly) shortly after the Opus 4.6 hype.
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