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OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding (theverge.com) 29

Posted by BeauHD from the new-and-improved dept.
OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." The Verge reports: OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across different tools. "Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going," according to OpenAI. The company also notes that GPT-5.5 will have its "strongest set of safeguards to date" and can use "significantly fewer" tokens to complete tasks in Codex. GPT-5.5 is rolling out on Thursday for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise ChatGPT tiers and Codex, with GPT-5.5 Pro coming to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.

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  • Sure (Score:3)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:26PM (#66109350)

    My butcher says, meat is healthier than bread and my baker says just the opposite.

    I eat both with a grain of salt.:-)

    • My butcher says, meat is healthier than bread and my baker says just the opposite.

      I eat both with a grain of salt.:-)

      By both do you mean, meat and bread or your butcher and baker? The latter seems low in bread.

    • Sure, everybody touts their own products. But OpenAI has some reason to brag.

      In my own comparison tests of coding LLMs, I've found Anthropic and OpenAI models superior. And OpenAI's are much faster, with similar results, than Anthropic's.

      It's not *just* hot air.

      • i love it... this is like back in the old days when the whole world moved on to trains, planes and automobiles and the cart rights were arguing over which modern breed of horse was best at transporting large amounts of grain.

        Do me a favor, get or rent a GPU somewhere and run your own instance of Qwen 3.6 35B A3B. But make sure you give it the Playwrite MCP and for a bonus, toss in a web search MCP. I think you'll find that the other two still have a speed advantage as far as tokens spent. But that Qwen fini
  • I am still waiting for someone to announce that the new version of their product is worse than the old version at something.
    • In the Age of Enshittification, it would be newsworthy if something new is truly better than its predecessor, but I'm not going to take the word of the company that makes the product.

  • Just a teeny bit less. Not that the mindless fans will care.

    Oh, and how are those revenue numbers? Still "certain death soon" level?

  • more faster (Score:3)

    by awwshit ( 6214476 ) on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:38PM (#66109448)

    Now with more slop delivered faster!

    • The latest coding models have moved beyond slop. They actually write decent code.

      Just a few months ago, I used to have to micromanage every code change. These days, with GPT-5.4, it usually gets it right the first time, even larger code updates. It does a great job of following the coding patterns and conventions YOU demonstrate in your code base. It's actually not hard to read or...sloppy.

  • So this one is a bit better than the last "I see now what I did wrong. Let me fix that for you"

    But I thought you told us that by now no programmer would
      have a job ?
    And I still have one.

    Go bust already, Dirty Sam and friends.
    • If you canâ(TM)t see the change happening in real time in this profession, youâ(TM)ve got bigger problems than AI taking your job
    • Two things can be simultaneously true: 1) Many of the AI proponents and CEOs exaggerate and overhype the power and usefulness of their software. 2) These systems are powerful and continue to get more powerful.
      • Indeed. At the moment, I am simultaneously amazed and appalled by the answers given by AI. It's like having a conversation with someone with Multiple Personality Disorder where some personalities have an IQ of 120 and other personalities have an IQ of 80, and the person is really good at disguising which personality I'm currently engaging.
  • AI models produce slop code, but that's what programmers have been producing for years anyway, now it's just ever so much moreso. When autocomplete was invented, it was great, but then sloppy programmers wrote code that couldn't be understood without autocomplete tooling.

    Now we have 99% of the people in the industry who joined for the money, not because they enjoy programming. They write more slop.

    AI is just the next iteration. Doesn't work in edge cases? No problem, write a ticket I'll fix that. I'm ju

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