Comment by anarticle

I also found this disturbing, as I used to use GPT for small worked out theoretical problems. In 5.2, the long list of repeated bulleted lists and fortune cookies was a negative for my use case. I replaced some of that use with Claude and am experimenting with LM studio and gpt-oss. It seemed like an obvious regression to me, but maybe people weren't using it that way.

For instance something simple like: "If I put 10kw in solar on my roof when is the payback given xyz price / incentive / usage pattern."

Used to give a kind of short technical report, now it's a long list of bullets and a very paternalistic "this will never work" kind of negativity. I'm assuming this is the anti-sycophant at work, but when you're working a problem you have to be optimistic until you get your answer.

For me this usage was a few times a day for ideas, or working through small problems. For code I've been Claude for at least a year, it just works.