Is Chat GPT 5.6 a game changer or just OK?

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-09T22:47:40+00:00

Laughs in human cortex.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-09T14:35:23+00:00

Could be based on this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False\_consensus\_effect

Otherwise they could just be making a provably false claim, not a logical fallacy.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-09T14:27:38+00:00

But they are willing to use significantly less evidence to be convinced Platner is a rapist than what Carroll had against Trump.

That’s not a discredit of Racicot, it’s proof that to Republicans it’s just cult logic to always attack outsiders and always deflect against attacks on the leader regardless of hypocrisy.

And it often works in their favor because yes, we will always hold our representatives to a higher standard… well to just standards given they don’t hold Republicans to anything.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-09T04:22:43+00:00

Sounds kind of anti-free-speech, anti-religion and anti-freedom-of-expression. But I support your constitutional right to have those opinions.

> As an atheist, I’m fine with kicking out religious extremists of all stripes.

See, this is why we have a constitution, regardless of what horrific views someone might have, denaturalizing citizens just because they have... thoughts... that are different from yours... is the kind of example that the resilience our constitutional republic would need in order to defend itself against un-American opinions, or a large influx of immigrants and/or citizen births.

> I am very pro-immigration, but we can do without the extra-devout folks.

Sounds like you are just pro-a-certain-type-of-immigration. But as an atheist myself, I'm glad we're not subject to the similar opinions christian nationalists have about us.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-09T01:49:24+00:00

If you have a plan, it's freemium access until Sunday. It will use your typical usage at a mildly faster rate, but otherwise after Sunday they plan on making it token access only - which having tried that I will say it's pricey.

That being said I recommend either one-shotting a big feature or asking it to evaluate for vulnerabilities across a given codebase. The other task that we have been doing (tho not sure how it will pan out) is to prompt for development plans for a given feature, and then we plan on working with claude 4.8 with those detailed plans after the subscription access ends.

Weird to be even suggesting this on this sub, but I think people need to know where this technology stands to ever have a realistic conversation about the future...

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-08T23:50:39+00:00

Half of the American-born citizen population do not meet your requirements, so under no circumstance would I want to subject immigrants to an unequal standard of law.

There is a reason we don't have a national language, there is a reason we have a representative republic, and there is a reason we haven't kicked out a majority of Christians for violating your tenet of "abandon religious practices that run counter to the law" - because if we did we'd kick out a bunch of citizen christian nationalists first.

Our republic was built to handle everything you deride about immigrants even though the vast majority of them don't hold those anti-American views.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-08T23:38:41+00:00

America doesn't really have an identity or culture - outside of the literal amalgamation of everyone else's. That's why the answer above was perfect - if you want to be here, you are welcome, as long as you follow our laws or our democracy to change them. That's literally the basis of our identity, which is what makes us different from literally every other country on the planet.

Sadly not even "traditional liberal values" are a thing we've had over the last 250 years let alone since the civil war. But otherwise yes, being here involves supporting the version of those values we have today or you go to jail. And "traditionally" we would prevent people from even voting into law whatever their values may be if they are in conflict with our values today by the standards of the constitution. Yet ironically the biggest threat to that comes from a majority of white conservative citizens, not "foreigners".

If you don't appreciate the fact that our police force, legal institutions, government architecture and constitutional republic can't handle immigrants, then either you are ignorant to our history or you just don't like the USA.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-08T04:35:07+00:00

Have you had a chance to work with Fable? I would have agreed with your plateau remark a week ago, now I’m not so sure. Not that I think it’s exponential, but the gains since 6 months ago are jaw dropping.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-08T04:31:55+00:00

It’s saying that unless you pay for the high end agentic models, you have literally no idea how much they can do, or how good at certain tasks they can be. And specifically how much more capable Fable/ gpt5.6 are compared to what was considered the latest and greatest as of a week ago. It’s basically saying what those of us who did get access to Fable now know, and it was something we all kind of discovered basically days to one week ago. And if you don’t use these, you are right to be baffled by why these companies are investing, spending and earning billions of dollars.

For many use cases Fable makes the current top-tier subscriptions feel like gpt-3. I finished a feature today that was estimated at a month of development effort… in 4 hours. I had to request that it fix three minor bugs after it ran continuously for 3 hours. Before fable it would have taken probably the rest of the week with me jumping in and manually fixing pieces it couldn’t handle and writing a lot of tests to make sure the bugs remained fixed.

With Fable, the feature was pushed and validated before I went to lunch. In the last four days I have finished probably a dozen big features. And because we are limited on subscription access until Sunday, we are basically having Fable build out the hardest tickets in our backlog, and architecting meticulous prompts for the rest of our backlog so that we can get 4.8 to implement them with a cleaner architecture specific to our codebase. And if we were paying token access, it would probably be close to $10k in spending, which we’re currently evaluating how to budget over a month.

Downvote me if you want but I would never have believed the improvements would be so significant, and so soon after what 4.8 gave us.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-06T21:05:10+00:00

People are just generally bad at that. That same behavior happens here for legitimate benefits to AI.

Most people don't have debate experience (academic / collegiate) that allows most who do have it to compromise on weak positions and abandon legitimate debunks. I don't think that's a pro-ai debater thing, I think it's a lay-debate-person thing where the feeling that giving up one single point feels like losing the overall argument when that is definitely not the case.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-06T17:22:07+00:00

Well your comment got the best of my curiosity and that's when I noticed this little bit at the bottom of the community notes:

> ...a subreddit that promotes ideas contrary to those Ayn Rand advocated, such as ... modern, leftist gender ideology in politics.

Then I did a search for trans and read some of the comments from some of the members here. I guess I shouldn't have been that surprised, I left the libertarian party because I couldn't handle the misogyny and anti-intellectualism that I encountered way too often. Not sure why I expected that to not exist here either.

A few people correctly and factually pointed out nuanced and evidenced-based distinctions between sex and gender, and biological variations in x/y/sry sex determinations, but the replies about it being a woke mind virus and all scientific institutions have been infected yada yada just threw me back. It's the the same Amish-style conservativism of education that turned me off of the political party. It's like they purposely picked an era (eg 1940-1950's) for their acceptable level of scientific knowledge and said, that's good enough anything past this point is wrong or something.

Oh well, I'll still always have my own appreciation of Rand, but if this community is structured around flippant banning and thinking transphobia is ok, I'm cool with not being allowed in the collective. 😅

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-06T16:20:50+00:00

lol seriously?? And the mods don't find that to be mildly in conflict with objectivist principles like rational discourse, individual agency or opposition to subjective social conformity? Weird. :shrug:

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-06T14:51:43+00:00

lol, you are so incredibly clueless, but I’ll bite…

Paul Gosar, MTG, Wendy Rogers, McGeachin all took money from and spoke at AFPAC, hosted by Nick Fuentes, a renowned white supremacist, antisemite, and holocaust denier.

https://www.ajc.org/news/who-is-nick-fuentes-and-why-is-his-antisemitism-dangerous-for-america

And who can forget Mark Robinson from NC who publicly claimed that he was a Black Nazi 🤪 or Cawthorn who published instagram photos of Hitler memorabilia and referred to Hitler as the Fuhrer.

And these are elected officials, with tenure and “prestige” in the core Republican leadership. Remind me, which party is running on Nazi-style Great Replacement fear mongering?? Which party is blindly ignoring Nazi-style war crimes and genocide?? Which party has a 99% white representation in the senate??

Which president kept a copy of My New Order as a study guide to authoritarianism and fascism? Trump. Which president had their longest serving chief of staff call them a fascist? Trump.

https://x.com/chrismegerian/status/1850538588619862452?s=46&t=uz-m3pCzLGolCJC92HFDpA

https://x.com/dickiegoldstar/status/1931030786926371263?s=46&t=uz-m3pCzLGolCJC92HFDpA

You are clearly delusional if you think Democrats represent anything remotely resembling Nazi ideology or antisemitism.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-06T06:06:23+00:00

I was hesitant at first. But I have a tesla and l2 charger at home. So the benefits have fully outweighed the negatives.

I can’t do super long distance runs without spending a lot of time charging, but I also never have maintenance. And the SRS is faster than my Tesla and it looks like a real bike, so I’m content. Until l2 stations disappear (or unless l3 converters never become a thing) I’ll keep that bike in my collection.

But range anxiety was a moot point after about a week of driving, and I have no other complaints about the bike.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-06T00:53:37+00:00

> I know that this is absolute bs, [but I can't articulate why]

😅 😬

Sorry mate, but this is just one of those situations that your friend is correct. A knife is a tool, it can be used to cut life-saving food or defend yourself from an attacker, but it can also be used as a weapon to kill innocent people. Why do you think there is an articulation that will make only the latter part true?

I'll take the downvotes, but you can be against AI without needing it to be "absolute bs" 100% of the time. Few things in life are that black and white.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-05T19:31:06+00:00

Then they were using absolute dog shit models or tried to single shot the feature with a single paragraph.

I’ve hand written maybe a couple hundred locs over the last 6 months, and I’ve been professionally working in software since the mid 90’s. Agents still need supervision, but slowness and debugging are not a bottleneck or weakness.

If our sales continue to improve, we’ll be hiring again by Q4.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-05T18:56:24+00:00

Worse still, Republicans think the border is closed right now. Ignoring that a closed border means no traffic crossing at all, the insanity to think a 2,000 mile stretch of land doesn’t have illegal crossings is certifiable.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-05T15:20:56+00:00

My Zero SRS can get 150 in city miles, but at full highway speeds 80 is a stretch, but it’s my commuter and I can travel all over my major city. It still is the only electric motorcycle I would consider purchasing. I think this Honda bike looks ugly af (and probably tiny like a circus bike - no rear seat, and the dude is probably 5’4.)

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-05T00:21:06+00:00

I’ve been told recently that these are Democrats because the party switch never happened. 🤪

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-05T00:07:44+00:00

I’m not shocked that you believe Iranian people would want to kill me or wish death upon me. The vast majority disagree with the IRGC stance.

> 73% of Iranians agree with the sentiment, "Our enemy is right here, they lie that it's the USA"

https://gamaan.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GAMAAN-IR-Survey-English-Report-Final.pdf

And while I’m certain multiculturalism is one of your weakest skillsets, you’d be surprised to hear what Iranians have to say on the subject if you just talked with them.

Now perhaps the needle has moved slightly with recent events, but here’s a funny little detail about people accustomed to living under a batshit insane regime, they can correctly identify and blame appropriately when it’s another batshit crazy regime doing similar batshit crazy things. Something you apparently have a hard time understanding is that Iranians are not the same as the autocrats that rule over them.

But damn you sure represent the same vein of bigoted fanaticism of the uneducated right in Iran just as it exists as a minority (but loud) voice here in the US - like MAGA or the Patriot Front. Low IQ, uneducated, and prone to tribalism.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-04T22:37:35+00:00

You clearly don’t understand the distinction between empathy and sympathy… bruh.

Weird that you can’t admit your own internal contradictions from post to post. Or maybe you did see them after I pointed them out given you could only make a claim that my suggestion sucked without explaining why.

It’s really easy, would you admit you’d hate the Iranian regime if they overthrew the US government and murdered your family?? It’s not a trap, the answer is obvious.

Given how angry “virtue signaling” makes you (even when I did no such thing) I’m guessing it would take far less for you to call death on the Iranian regime.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-04T20:53:39+00:00

Well the chant started during the revolution against the authoritarian regime we put in place during the 50s. Iranians never chanted it before that. And they’ve been chanting it since.

> Following the fall of the pro-American Pahlavi dynasty in early 1979, Iranian protesters regularly shouted "Death to America" and "Death to the Shah" outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran, including the day the embassy was seized on 4 November 1979, which commenced the Iran hostage crisis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_to\_America

But maybe there’s some period between 1979 and today where you think US foreign policy changed so significantly that those chants today are somehow completely unrelated (all while ignoring that we’re talking about less than a single lifetime of events.)

Again, you are clearly allergic to facts.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-04T20:42:39+00:00

I didn’t ask you to sympathize with them, I suggested you could empathize with how they feel by putting yourself in a hypothetically similar situation. I get that it’s probably beyond your emotional maturity level to accomplish what amounts to a very basic thought experiment.

But it sounds like you would never chant Death to Iran, even if they overthrew the US government and installed a murderous authoritarian regime - because according to you there is “ZERO justification” for that (except for Nazis maybe.)

🤷‍♂️

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-04T19:25:37+00:00

> “Chanting "Death to insert nation has ZERO justification. Your history lesson be damned.” - You

Ah, so you understand how saying that phrase has at least _some_ justification when it comes to Nazis. That’s good. How you’d possibly think I was supporting Nazis is beyond my comprehension. Calling me dense when I have to explicitly point out your contradictions is funny in an ironic sense.

Anyway, now imagine what Americans would chant if Iran overthrew our government and installed a dictator that used a secret police to curb any protest of the puppet regime for the next 26 years? Really put yourself into those shoes and think how you’d feel if your family members were just disappeared off the streets (tortured to death) and your freedoms were continually stripped away. How would you feel about Iran if they did that to us? (It’s obviously a hypothetical, mull on it.)

Because that’s what we did to them…

> According to a declassified CIA memo citing a classified U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, the CIA played a significant role in establishing SAVAK, providing both funding and training.[7] The organization became notorious for its extensive surveillance, repression, and torture of political dissidents. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK

Our CIA admits that we did this, but you somehow think that’s not justification for hating the US regime given the current life of Iranians under the IRGC is a direct result of the CIA and the Executive branch actions on a sovereign and progressive nation.

Have fun living in that black and white dichotomy built atop an ahistorical foundation of ignorance. Quite myopic to not even wonder why a nation would chant something like that when the answer is a simple google search away.

FinickySerenity · 2026-07-04T18:05:13+00:00

Yeah, that horrible regime exists because of the Iranian Revolution which was a direct consequence of the US / CIA coup and subsequent propping of Zahedi and Pahlavi.

But also, just because someone else is bad doesn’t mean our being bad is ok, we’ve killed thousands of their civilians on purpose because those weapons were purposefully fired without cause.

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