Comment by _puk
6 days ago
I think Opus 4.6 at its peak was the "how can anyone not get that this is good" for me.
Then the nerf, and the massive uplift in tokens for 4.7, a model which I find lazy and prone to hallucinate.
It's probably time to try GPT5.5. Like many I'm pretty heavily invested in the anthropic ecosystem at this point, which I suppose gives another strong reason to make the switch.
The openclaw ban pushed me over to 5.5 for some daily usage. I feel like Opus and 5.5 are good at very different things. 5.5 can be too literal, and it does not have as much of a ‘creative’ bent whether that’s toward design, UI/UX, interpreting vague instructions, etc. So, in that way, Opus had sort of spoiled me.
On the other hand, this year I’ve been in the habit of using codex as a bug finder / audit layer, where it shines, and I can tell you, Opus makes a lot of mistakes, and as we all know struggles with laziness — and has gotten good at encoding that laziness into the codebase (// Per instructions, pass this test by default) where it can live for a long time. So, Opus had spoiled me, but more with its ability to sketch holistically than its ability to put out perfect codebases.
Upshot - it was good to switch horses for a while, as you mention. Slightly different skill sets there. And I still reach for claude especially for initial design. But right now the daily driver is 5.5 / xhigh fast mode, and it’s very capable.
I only used Claude first time in April, previously only ChatGPT and Gemini. And I struggle to see what the hype is all about - yes it seems a tiny bit smarter than the pack, but on the 20$ subscription it runs out of tokens in 5-20 minutes, and then you need to wait 3-4h.
ChatGPT 5.5 seems capable, although a bit stingy with “thinking” compared to earlier models, and I never run into session limits.
I couldn't imagine using CC on the basic tier!
Even operations and GTM are all at "professional" level (which I think is vaguely equivalent to 5x).
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I was a dedicated Claude user but in March/April I started using GPT5.5 on a new project that Claude had tried and failed to execute successfully. GPT knocked it out of the park, and was able to do it within my subscription allocation of tokens. I'd recommend giving it a go at least. Something like OpenClaude can let you use the Claude tools you're used to
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