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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by i_love_retros »

simonw wrote: post #759
i_love_retros wrote: post #739

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do realise they are doing it for self promotion right?

I mean, yeah. "Person who spends time publishing content online is doing it for self promotion " doesn't seem particularly notable to me. 24 years of self promotion and counting!

Dude it comes across, maybe only to me, as a bit shameless. Or maybe it's just that there are so many people lapping it up like you're doing a public service that I find tedious. I wish hackernews had a block feature but alas it doesn't. Maybe I'll vibecode a browser extension.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by NuclearPM »

Rapzid wrote: post #529
butlike wrote: post #260

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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.

We are closer to God than AGI. When AGI arrives, it'll be delivered by Santa Claus.

What do you mean?

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by scotty79 »

JohnLocke4 wrote: post #201
puppystench wrote: post #145

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For API usage, GPT-5.5 is 2x the price of GPT-5.4, ~4x the price of GPT-5.1, and ~10x the price of Kimi-2.6. Unfortunately I think the lesson they took from Anthropic is that devs get really reliant and even addicted on coding agents, and they'll happily pay any amount for even small benefits.

Sometimes I wonder if innovation in the AI space has stalled and recent progress is just a product of increased compute. Competence is increasing exponentially[1] but I guess it doesn't rule it out completely. I would postulate that a radical architecture shift is needed for the singularity though [1] https://arxiv.org/html/2503.14499v1 *Source is from March 2025 so make of it what you will.

We are constantly getting smaller and faster models that are close in performance to state of the art from few months prior. And that's due to architectural inventions. I'm sure it takes some time for these inventions to proliferate to frontier and that some might not be applicable there but we are definitely going faster than just due to compute increase.

It will get faster, but there are no singularities in the real world. Except possibly black holes, but we can't even be sure of that.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by thierrydamiba »

stingraycharles wrote: post #742
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…

OpenAI hired the guy behind OpenClaw, so it makes sense that they’re more lenient towards its usage.

They basically bought OpenClaw right?

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by stingraycharles »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #873
vthallam wrote: post #142

This model is great at long horizon tasks, and Codex now has heartbeats, so it can keep checking on things. Give it your hardest problem that would take hours with verifiable constraints, you will see how good this is:) *I work at OAI.

Is there any task that actually doesn't require human intervention in-between, even if its just to setup stuff? Like I will get Opus to make me an app but it will stop in between because I need to setup the db and plug in the API keys and Opus really can't do that on its own yet

> Is there any task that actually doesn't require human intervention in-between, even if its just to setup stuff?

The goal is none. The current situation: everything that matters requires human intervention.

I think the end situation will be that LLMs will be able to perform decently well in a highly controlled and predictable environment.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by i_love_retros »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #847
simonw wrote: post #759

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, yeah. "Person who spends time publishing content online is doing it for self promotion " doesn't seem particularly notable to me. 24 years of self promotion and counting!

I am always outraged when youtube creators ask me to like and subscribe. /s

Not the same at all. For that to happen you would have to explicitly visit their channel (forgive incorrect terminology, I don't use youtube). If someone kept posting on hackernews asking you to subscribe I hope you wouldn't appreciate it. swillison is spamming a communal public feed with self promotional comments about vibe coding, quite obviously because they, like the rest of us, are panicking about not having a career in a few years.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by scotty79 »

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?

When technology settles rent seeking beancounters will squeeze out of this the last drop of value they can. In theory it just needs to be cheaper than human doing the same job. In practice it will have to be cheaper than a human using open source model on his own hardware, that can do the job.
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