Comment by cromka
16 hours ago
Honestly, I don't know what people see in Sol 6.1. Opus 5.5 is so much more inteligent, as in proactive, avoiding stupid mistakes, where it contradicts itself, ignores the context. Sol 6.1 has a gold-fish memory, it's as annoying for me to work with as Opus 5 was.
I'd rank Sol 6.1 only slightly behind Opus 5.5 in intelligence and both significantly ahead of anything else I've used (though cheaper/faster models are totally fine for a lot of tasks). My only real annoyance is 6.1 Sol is one of the slowest models I've used, which does make Opus 5.5 more pleasant to use.
I never understood the hype with Claude
I tried Claude legitimately for a few months, on max
That was during the great anthropic compute/gaslight crisis (ahh good times..), Claude then enthusiastically bricked my MacBook and I had to get gpt to unfuck it
You can override the context length of Sol to 1M
Without this change I hated Sol and was burning tokens way faster due to all the forced compacting.
Since making this (obscure/hidden) change I enjoy Codex much more.
The work I do cannot fit in 256k so it was just relearning the same things over and over again while making zero progress. AFAIK the 1M burns tokens at twice the rate but I use Sol on medium as the work I'm doing now needs more memory than it needs intelligence and it's working great. I use Opus 5.5 for the stuff that needs stronger intelligence.
That's not actually the problem. It forgets the instructions from 15 minutes ago, without context compression involved in-between.
That has not been my experience after bumping it up to 1M. I do run a lot of agents in parallel ~10-16 and I actively babysit them so perhaps I'm just used to reminding the agents with things I've already told them. But I don't notice much of a difference between Sol 6.1 1M and Opus 5.5 1M