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Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by resters »

ssl-3 wrote: post #152
resters wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's assuming that the instant answer is even directionally correct. A misleading instant answer could pollute the context and lead the thinking model astray.

Can the context of the pre-revision, Instant response be simply be discarded -- or forked or branched or [insert appropriate nomenclature here] -- instead of being included as potential poison? (It seems absurd that to consider that there may be no undo button that the machine can push.)

I'm sure it could, that is probably how it should work. In many cases it would be fine without that.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by nearbuy »

redox99 wrote: post #164
tedsanders wrote: post #24

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Yeah, for a while ChatGPT Plus has been powered by two series of models under the hood. One series is the Instant series, which is faster and more tuned to ChatGPT, but less accurate. The second series is the Thinking series, which is more accurate and more tuned to professional knowledge work, but slower (because it uses more reasoning tokens). We'd also prefer to have simple experience with just one option, but pic…

Auto will never work, because for the exact same prompt sometimes you want a quick answer because it's not something very important to you, and sometimes you want the answer to be as accurate as possible, even if you have to wait 10 minutes. In my case it would be more useful to have a slider of how much I'm willing to wait. For example instant, or think up to 1 minute, or think up to 15 minutes.

That's pretty close to what they have. They just named them Instant, Thinking (Standard), and Thinking (Extended), and they're discrete presets instead of a slider.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by braebo »

nostromo wrote: post #211
RickS wrote: post #208

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I solved this by asking it to make a memory that all answers to me should be brisk, clinical, and to the point. This worked well, except for the annoying habit of beginning answers with something like "Terse: $answer", which required a second memory, solving the issue in full. I've been happy with it since. Edit: I just realized this interaction is its own demo – that's the entire response it gave me, as it should be…

This didn't work at all for me. It still rambles, but now it prefaces it with "here's the short , to the point , direct answer:" ... followed by the same a long-winded answer.

Same. I gave up and moved to Claude and haven’t looked back. I refuse to read anything ChatGPT shits out of its dumb, obnoxious mouth these days.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by zachallaun »

kenjackson wrote: post #200
sunaookami wrote: post #191

The single biggest issue for me with ChatGPT right now is how absolutely awful it sounds in every answer. "Why it matters", "the big picture", "it's not jut you", the awful emphasis, the quotations with rhetorical questions, etc.. I don't know if it's intentional so you can easily spot ChatGPT-generated content on the web? The very first GPT-5 version was good but they ruined it immediately afterwards with "making th…

The most frustrating part for me is that this is how I used to write. I was always doing, "Why X works, but Y doesn't" and stuff like that. I may have seemed trite or pompous (or both) in the past, but now it seems like I'm copying an LLM -- which actually feels worse. One thing I haven't seen ChatGPT do much of is use sound-effects, so swoosh here we go with my new writing style schwing !

I feel you. I've been using en-dash in my writing for decades, but finding myself removing them now for fear of being mistaken for an LLM. (They tend to use em-dash, but I don't think people are going to distinguish between – and —.)

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

kenjackson wrote: post #200
sunaookami wrote: post #191

The single biggest issue for me with ChatGPT right now is how absolutely awful it sounds in every answer. "Why it matters", "the big picture", "it's not jut you", the awful emphasis, the quotations with rhetorical questions, etc.. I don't know if it's intentional so you can easily spot ChatGPT-generated content on the web? The very first GPT-5 version was good but they ruined it immediately afterwards with "making th…

The most frustrating part for me is that this is how I used to write. I was always doing, "Why X works, but Y doesn't" and stuff like that. I may have seemed trite or pompous (or both) in the past, but now it seems like I'm copying an LLM -- which actually feels worse. One thing I haven't seen ChatGPT do much of is use sound-effects, so swoosh here we go with my new writing style schwing !

And of course, the reason that ChatGPT sounds like that is that it's what a whole lot of explanatory expert blog posts did, and so when ChatGPT is told to talk like that, that's what it does.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by braebo »

mediaman wrote: post #109
butILoveLife wrote: post #78

I unsubbed because ChatGPT was no longer SOTA. They def got cheap. Reminds me of that graph where late customers are abused. OpenAI is already abusing the late customers. Claude is pretty great.

It's odd because I no longer really like ChatGPT. For chat-type requests, I prefer Claude, or if it's knowledge-intensive then Gemini 3 Pro (which is better for history, old novels, etc). But GPT 5.3 Codex is great. Significantly better than Opus, in the TUI coding agent.

I keep hearing this but I consistently get subpar results from anything other than Opus

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by heftykoo »

OpenAI's naming convention is slowly converging with Gillette razors. Can't wait for GPT-5.3 Instant Turbo Max Pro. Seriously though, if "Instant" just means a lower TTFT (Time To First Token) but regresses on complex reasoning, it's just a hardware accelerator for hallucinations. Fast wrong answers are still wrong answers.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by notepad0x90 »

I'm really curious how people take to OpenAI after the DoW fiasco. I know consumers are mini-revolting, but will it stick? Devs ultimately decide their B2B revenue. But most don't have a choice in the matter I suppose.
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