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Re: GPT-5.5

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Images 2.0 is already in ChatGPT.

When I generate an image with ChatGPT, is there a way for me to tell which image generation model has been used?

There's no explicit flag, but Thinking is only compatable with Images 2.0 so I suspect that will be reliable.

Re: GPT-5.5

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> This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. What's the worst potential outcome, assuming that all models get better, more efficient and more abundant (which seems to be the current trend)? The goal of engin…

Worst case? I dunno, maybe the world's oldest profession becomes the world's only profession? Something along those lines.

> the world's oldest profession becomes the world's only profession

Until the sexbots come out the other side of the uncanny valley, that is.

Re: GPT-5.5

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This brings up an interesting philosophical point: say we get to AGI... who's to say it won't just be a super smart underachiever-type? "Hey AGI, how's that cure for cancer coming?" "Oh it's done just gotta...formalize it you know. Big rollout and all that..." I would find it divinely funny if we "got there" with AGI and it was just a complete slacker. Hard to justify leaving it on, but too important to turn it off.

The best possible outcome.

"How do you know that the evidence that your sensory apparatus reveals to you is correct?" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/_LXen-07Qds

Re: GPT-5.5

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> One engineer at NVIDIA who had early access to the model went as far as to say: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.” This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. This matches my o…

That's why local models are important.

Of course they aren't alternative to the current frontier model, and as such you cannot easily jump from the later to the former, but they aren't that far behind either, for coding Qwen3.5-122B is comparable to what Sonnet was less than a year ago.

So assuming the trend continues, if you can stop following the latest release and stick with what you're already using for 6 or 9 months, you'll be able to liberate yourself from the dependency to a Cloud provider.

Personally I think the freedom is worth it.

Re: GPT-5.5

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> that devs get really reliant and even addicted on coding agents An alternative perspective is, devs highly value coding agents, and are willing to pay more because they're so useful . In other words, the market value of this limited resource is being adjusted to be closer to reality.

It's not limited though there are alternative providers even now, much less when the price goes up. Chinese providers, European ones, local models.

> It's not limited though

Inference is not free, so all providers have a financial limit, and all providers have limited GPU/memory, so there's a physical material limit.

I suggest looking at the profits of these companies (while they scramble to stay competitive).

Re: GPT-5.5

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Just as a heads up, even though GPT-5.5 is releasing today, the rollout in ChatGPT and Codex will be gradual over many hours so that we can make sure service remains stable for everyone (same as our previous launches). You may not see it right away, and if you don't, try again later in the day. We usually start with Pro/Enterprise accounts and then work our way down to Plus. We know it's slightly annoying to have to…

Are you able to say something about the training you've done to 5.5 to make it less likely to freak out and delete projects in what can only be called shame?

What? I've probably use Codex (the TUI) since it was available on day 1, been running gpt-5.4 exclusively these last few months, never had it delete any projects in any way that can be called "shameful" or not. What are you talking about?

Re: GPT-5.5

#447

> One engineer at NVIDIA who had early access to the model went as far as to say: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.” This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. This matches my o…

Well, they obviously are going to say that, they have vested interest in OpenAI and thus Nvidia stock price growing. Also, I honestly can’t believe the 10x mantra is being still repeated.

Writing code is 10-100x faster, doing actual product engineering work is nowhere near that multipliers — no conflict!

Re: GPT-5.5

#448

A playable 3D dungeon arena prototype built with Codex and GPT models. Codex handled the game architecture, TypeScript/Three.js implementation, combat systems, enemy encounters, HUD feedback, and GPT‑generated environment textures. Character models, character textures, and animations were created with third-party asset-generation tools The game that this prompt generated looks pretty decent visually. A big part of th…

A friend is building Jamboree[1] (prev name "Spielwerk") for iOS. An app to build and share games. They're all web based so they're easy to share.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/uz/app/jamboree-game-maker/id67473110...

Re: GPT-5.5

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> One engineer at NVIDIA who had early access to the model went as far as to say: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.” This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. This matches my o…

> This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. What's the worst potential outcome, assuming that all models get better, more efficient and more abundant (which seems to be the current trend)? The goal of engin…

>What's the worst potential outcome, assuming that all models get better, more efficient and more abundant

Complexity steadily rises, unencumbered by the natural limit of human understanding, until technological collapse, either by slow decay or major systems going down with increasing frequency.

Re: GPT-5.5

#450

> One engineer at NVIDIA who had early access to the model went as far as to say: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.” This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. This matches my o…

Well, they obviously are going to say that, they have vested interest in OpenAI and thus Nvidia stock price growing. Also, I honestly can’t believe the 10x mantra is being still repeated.

> Also, I honestly can’t believe the 10x mantra is being still repeated.

I'm sure in 20 years we'll all be programming via neural interfaces that can anticipate what you want to do before you even finished your thoughts, but I'm confident we'll still have blog posts about how some engineers are 10x while others are just "normal programmers".

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