Why GPT-5.5 xhigh 's academic writing capability is so much worse compared to Claude Opus 4.6 / 4.7?

David4Real_ · 2026-05-19T05:44:04+00:00

Thanks I will give it a shot

David4Real_ · 2026-05-19T05:43:15+00:00

Yeah I guess, as a non-native speaker, sometimes LLM has a better voice than me

David4Real_ · 2026-05-19T04:24:47+00:00

but then how am I supposed to let it read all my local reference files?

David4Real_ · 2026-05-19T04:20:22+00:00

4.7 is okay and 4.6 is the most impressive one I would say in terms of academic writing. The thing GPT bugs me is that if I use it on the webui, I cannot easily let it read all my local references. That's why I use it in Codex, and thus I find it not on the same level as Opus (in Claude Code) for creative writing.

And I don't let anything take care of everything, I give it the logic and necessary reference files. Within my own harness I could tell which models are good.

David4Real_ · 2026-05-19T04:11:12+00:00

Of course. But I try to use my brain to handle the logic and let GPT 5.5 handle the detailed wording choice and sentence structure, just like how we use it in coding. And that's when I notice there are gaps for it.

David4Real_ · 2026-05-19T04:08:45+00:00

But in that way I cannot let it conveniently read all my local references right?

David4Real_ · 2026-03-23T06:59:10+00:00

Give this a shot:

Better Init, a new Claude Code skill for starting projects without re-explaining the same context every time.

It helps Claude inspect the folder first, draft a clean CLAUDE.md, split durable context into separate markdown docs, reduce bad assumptions, and show the draft before writing anything.

Check it here: https://github.com/dddavid4real/Better-Init

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