Comment by sinenomine
4 hours ago
GPT-5.2 has radically changed my outlook on OpenAI. Head and shoulders above others.
The excellence is there.
4 hours ago
GPT-5.2 has radically changed my outlook on OpenAI. Head and shoulders above others.
The excellence is there.
I'm also a happy customer.
But, one thing has been consistent for the past 3 years: After every release from all the serious competitors, the hype can go either way.
As far as the hype cycles go, OpenAI is oscillating between "Best model ever" and "What a letdown, it's over" at least twice a year.
The competition is fierce, and a never-ending marathon of all the players getting ahead just a bit. No clear long-term winner.
5.2 is good. But at this point every few months company A trumps company B with a new “SOTA” (for some definition of SOTA).
OpenAI has no real moat. Anthropic is focusing on developers as a clear target, and Gemini has the backing of Google.
I don’t see OpenAI winning the AI race with marginally better models and arguably a nicer UI/UX (ymmv, but I do like the ChatGPT app experience).
That said, my usage decreases month over month.
Really, I found 5.2 to be a rather weak model. It constantly gives me code that doesn't work and gets simple APIs wrong. Maybe it's just weak on the domain I'm working in.
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