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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by vidarh »

pantulis wrote: post #231
arjie wrote: post #135

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Get the actual prompt and have Claude Code / Codex try it out via curl / python requests. The full prompt will yield debugging information. You have to set a few parameters to make sure you get the full gpt-5 performance. e.g. if your reasoning budget too low, you get gpt-4 grade performance. IMHO you should just write your own harness so you have full visibility into it, but if you're just using vanilla OpenClaw you…

> IMHO you should just write your own harness Can you point to some online resources to achieve this? I'm not very sure where I'd begin with.

Here's a starting point in 93 lines of Ruby, but that one is already bigger than necessary:

https://radan.dev/articles/coding-agent-in-ruby

Really, of the tools that one implements, you only need the ability to run a shell command - all of the agents know full well how to use cat to read, and sed to edit.

(The main reason to implement more is that it can make it easier to implement optimizations and safeguards, e.g. limit the file reading tool to return a certain length instead of having the agent cat a MB of data into context, or force it to read a file before overwriting it)

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by vidarh »

adammarples wrote: post #259
endymi0n wrote: post #103

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Did you guys do anything about GPT‘s motivation? I tried to use GPT-5.4 API (at xhigh) for my OpenClaw after the Anthropic Oauthgate, but I just couldn‘t drag it to do its job. I had the most hilarious dialogues along the lines of „You stopped, X would have been next.“ - „Yeah, I‘m sorry, I failed. I should have done X next.“ - „Well, how about you just do it?“ - „Yep, I really should have done it now.“ - “Do X, righ…

Part of me actually loves that the hitchhiker's guide was right, and we have to argue with paranoid, depressed robots to get them to do their job, and that this is a very real part of life in 2026. It's so funny.

As long as there are no vogons on the way to build a hyperspace bypass.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by vidarh »

basilgohar wrote: post #241
endymi0n wrote: post #216

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I had this funny moment when I realized we went full circle... "INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as "READ OUT", "IGNORE", "FORGET", and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insuff…

Thank you for this. I somehow never heard of this. I thoroughly enjoyed reading that and the loss of sanity it resulted in,

"PLEASE COME FROM" is one of the eldritch horrors of software development.

(It's a "reverse goto". As in, it hijacks control flow from anywhere else in the program behind your unsuspecting back who stupidly thought that when one line followed another with no visible control flow, naturally the program would proceed from one line to the next, not randomly move to a completely different part of the program... Such naivety)

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by rglullis »

embedding-shape wrote: post #450
Alex_L_Wood wrote: post #435

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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".

What does it mean to "be an engineer" in a world where anyone can talk to a machine and the operating system can write the code (on-demand, if needed) that does what they want?

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by noonething »

simonw wrote: post #195

This doesn't have API access yet, but OpenAI seem to approve of the Codex API backdoor used by OpenClaw these days... https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2046775849769148838 and https://twitter.com/romainhuet/status/2038699202834841962 And that backdoor API has GPT-5.5. So here's a pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/23/gpt-5-5/#and-some-peli... I used this new plugin for LLM: https://github.com/simonw/llm-op…

Thank you for doing all this. It's appreciated.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by cyberax »

motoxpro wrote: post #457
Jtarii wrote: post #449

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>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.

why would the systems go down if the models are better at the humans at finding bugs. Playing a bit of devils advocate here, but why would the models be worse at handling the complexity if you assume they will get better and better. All software has bugs already.

Finding bugs does not equal being able to do good architecting.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by import »

0x62 wrote: post #51
astlouis44 wrote: post #9

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…

FWIW I've been experimenting with Three.js and AI for the last ~3 years, and noticed a significant improvement in 5.4 - the biggest single generation leap for Three.js specifically. It was most evident in shaders (GLSL), but also apparent in structuring of Three.js scenes across multiple pages/components. It still struggles to create shaders from scratch, but is now pretty adequate at editing existing shaders. In 5.2…

Using Claude for the same context and it’s doing really well with the glsl. since like last September

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by keybored »

_alternator_ wrote: post #330

> 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…

Help. They’re constantly trying to make me try crack cocaine on the front page.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by [deleted] »

jfkimmes wrote: post #122

Everyone talked about the marketing stunt that was Anthropic's gated Mythos model with an 83% result on CyberGym. OpenAI just dropped GPT 5.5, which scores 82% and is open for anybody to use. I recommend anybody in offensive/defensive cybersecurity to experiment with this. This is the real data point we needed - without the hype! Never thought I'd say this but OpenAI is the 'open' option again.

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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by beering »

operatingthetan wrote: post #175
mudkipdev wrote: post #160

This is 3x the price of GPT-5.1, released just 6 months ago. Is no one else alarmed by the trend? What happens when the cheaper models are deprecated/removed over time?

We know they cost much more than this for OpenAI. Assume prices will continue to climb until they are making money.

source? There have also been a bunch of people here saying the opposite
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