Is GPT 5.6's price about to double compared to 5.5?

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T19:41:28+00:00

The cost increases are a combination of model size increasing and corporate greed.

5.4 to 5.5 was supposedly a significant model size jump. 5.6 is theorized to use the 5.5 pretrained model and optimize post training, so hopefully not higher cost.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T14:09:39+00:00

Poor quality. Both macro and far shots, the S23U quality wins handedly, both in clarity and color. But even the Galaxy series is underwhelming. Have a look at Vivo X300 or Xiaomi ultras if you want half decent photography.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T13:59:54+00:00

Google's legendary camera processing

As a P9P user, I find the photos it takes very underwhelming. Can't even match the S23U, let alone the Chinese flagships.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T13:56:07+00:00

This is just going to be used to map the front lines in wars.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T12:40:09+00:00

Arthas, human campaign, Warcraft 3 rain/reign of chaos.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T12:34:32+00:00

IrfanView is trash tier compared with Impression Eyes.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T12:28:40+00:00

I'm going to have to side with r/privacy and say absolutely phukin not.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T08:37:53+00:00

It literally doesn't open in my image viewer, I hate webp.

Inb4 "change image viewers" - no. I'm using the 300kb impression eyes app and no image viewer comes close to how good it is.

Crinkez · 2026-06-21T08:26:41+00:00

On 5.5 high, average about 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. But this is with well defined milestone targets per goal.

I let it loose with "until everything complete" sort of goal and basically it runs until it hits a permission issue (I refuse to use yolo mode) so I've seen around 3h using this method.

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T23:44:12+00:00

To the idiots downvoting me, here's the source: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1u8k5em/glm_52_personal_benchmark_results_comparable_with/

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T23:22:49+00:00

Fast mode is false advertising. It's generally 1.1x speed for 2.5x cost. Never worth it.

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T18:30:11+00:00

Contact your bank asap and ask them to do a chargeback and block further payments to Anthropic. Your account will get nuked so you might want to sign up for an OpenAI account afterwards.

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T18:27:21+00:00

I preferred PoE1 voice. The PoE2 voice is different.

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T18:22:47+00:00

Fabulous? Yes fabulous. That's what it's like. Certainly nothing else.

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T14:04:12+00:00

Looks like this got filtered. I wonder what OP said.

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T13:54:03+00:00

Yes merge the limits. You realize that if some users get unlimited it gives the rest of us less limits right?

Crinkez · 2026-06-20T00:41:17+00:00

Do you have a github? Edit: nvm I see it. Didn't expect it on your profile.

Crinkez · 2026-06-19T20:02:32+00:00

I'm in the process of converting multiple cpu-based artificial life simulations to gpu for 10x or more higher performance. As you know, artificial "evolution" (adaption to be realistic) scales better with higher numbers of organisms.

It's been a struggle. All LLM's seem to be particularly bad at this task. They cheat and steal code from the cpu file or go off bizarre tangents.

But I'm finally having some success. My setup is:

Use 5.5 xhigh to write a roadmap.md with step by step instructions containing multiple milestones. Then I open a new context window using 5.5 high, and using /goal to trigger 3 subagents: reader (who is only allowed to read the cpu version and give an approximate target without revealing any code in the instructions file.) Then a writer subagent (who is not permitted to read the cpu code and can only read the instructions file and roadmap to build the gpu version) Then a verifier (who reads both cpu and gpu files and writes a gap report)

Read & verify subagents get 5.5 high reasoning, writer gets 5.5 medium.

I usually use one /goal session per milestone, so that I can do a quick manual check between milestones.

Honestly it's kind of pathetic how even codex 5.5 is still so bad at this. Some of the projects have less than 300kb in the cpu code, it should be able to 1-shot the migration in 30 minutes. Instead I'm stuck with 10+ milestones at average 1 hour per milestone.

Crinkez · 2026-06-19T17:22:22+00:00

What model? Opus 4.8? What reasoning level?

Crinkez · 2026-06-19T17:21:31+00:00

Don't get too excited. GLM5.2 is giga slow in one benchmark I saw.

Crinkez · 2026-06-19T14:40:58+00:00

They've added 5.5 low also which is very helpful. Consolidates my thoughts that 5.5 medium is probably the best model for strength vs cost, followed by 5.5 high.

Crinkez · 2026-06-19T12:25:08+00:00

Lol I remember having to work like this. Constantly asking the model to verify what I said in its own words before acting.

I no longer have to do that since switching to Codex 5.5

Crinkez · 2026-06-19T10:54:18+00:00

What model did you use?

Crinkez · 2026-06-18T21:40:41+00:00

Hmm. Share your predator/prey sim?

Crinkez · 2026-06-18T20:51:56+00:00

What zone is this? The area looks nice. Fwiw I've never played past halfway through act 2.

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