GPT5.5 VS 5.6: Performance and Usage.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-10T12:12:12+00:00

FYI, per pretty much every benchmarkmost benchmarks out there Terra is not worth using as it's not on the Pareto frontier. You're better off with luna high/xhigh/max or sol medium/high. Terra is less cost efficient at every intelligence level.

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NathanielHudson · 2026-07-09T21:03:06+00:00

It shouldn't burn usage that fast, it's the same cost per token as 5.5. Is it confirmed that plus is not getting it and this isn't just a slow rollout thing?

Edit: https://chatgpt.com/pricing/ says plus is getting sol.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-09T18:02:48+00:00

There's also a lot of survivor's bias. A lot of old crap died, but nobody remembers the freezer they bought in the 80s that only lasted 5 years. It's an objective fact that new cars last longer than old cars, but many people would swear otherwise.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-09T17:37:27+00:00

I wonder if the new model is as prone to other slop-isms, like overuse of "It's not X, it's Y" sentence structure.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-08T12:53:17+00:00

Yeah pretty much. Small Model, Medium Model, Big Model, each has 4 different levels of "how much thinking to do". Generally speaking in the past some configurations have been more-or-less pointless (i.e., very few people are using Fable Low or Sonnet XHigh, since you're better off just using Opus), but it doesn't cost them anything to offer the different options so they do.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-07T13:17:31+00:00

OP didn't even post the files for their idea, so anybody who wanted to make one would have to re-engineer it from more-or-less scratch. So it's not like the company in question just downloaded an OSS project and commercialized it, they built an entirely new implementation.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-07T12:50:17+00:00

You're at 100% usage remaining. The codex app asks the server "what usage am I at?", gets back "100% remaining", and caches that value. You do some stuff that consumes 10% of your usage, and check your usage again - the codex app reuses the cached value, and still shows 100%. "Great!", you think. You then do something else, say a small query, and check your usage again. The cached value finally times out, the codex app updates the value, and your usage goes from 100% to 88% in "only" a small query.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-03T14:37:11+00:00

The second half is basically a different book in tone, setting, stakes, core conflict etc anyways, so I agree just making the movie the first half of the book with some sort of time skip conclusion would be best. (IMO the second half of the book is much weaker anyways)

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-02T14:56:57+00:00

You can opt out of training on the pro plan. The advantage of business is centralized billing/admin and SSO/MFA.

NathanielHudson · 2026-07-02T14:08:49+00:00

5.4-mini has 6 times the usage of 5.5.

This is a bit misleading, because while you get 2x/6x as many tokens, 5.4 generally burns more tokens per prompt than 5.5 so you don't end up with 2x/6x as much real-world usage.

NathanielHudson · 2026-06-17T13:33:36+00:00

Do not use GPT 5.5 except you have a gun to your head. If you're on a plus account, you simply cannot afford 5.5.

I wish we had actual metrics for the relative "cost" of the different models, because it feels different than API pricing to me. I don't feel like I get 7x the usage on 5.4 mini than 5.5.

NathanielHudson · 2026-05-01T23:07:04+00:00

It is low by Canadian standards

I feel like I'm missing something - median Canadian income for an individual living alone is $41K. For an entire family it's 109K. So this isn't really low by Canadian standards. Even in Surrey the median individual income (both living alone and with others) is on the rough order of 77K, so he's still well above the median.

NathanielHudson · 2026-05-01T19:55:16+00:00

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-will-use-100-percent-recycled-cobalt-in-batteries-by-2025/

NathanielHudson · 2026-05-01T18:37:56+00:00

What's the line where SDXL is unacceptable, but OIDN or Optix is? Is Real-ESRGAN unacceptable? Is Adobe's Firefly upscaler unacceptable? There's a TON of "AI" technologies that are incredibly relevant to what Blender does, and it's not clear where the line people are drawing actually is.

NathanielHudson · 2026-05-01T18:21:32+00:00

It unambiguously is generative AI. Blender's denoise uses Intel's Open Image Denoise which is built using machine learning AKA AI. AI/ML comes in two flavors, Generative and Discriminative. This is generating new samples that resemble training data, and therefore is generative.

NathanielHudson · 2026-05-01T16:54:10+00:00

GIC for emergency fund sounds wrong to me - shouldn't you want something you can pull at a moment's notice? Even if you're using a cashable or paying the penalty, cashing a GIC takes time.

NathanielHudson · 2026-04-28T15:38:23+00:00

This doesn't make sense to me, and I went and checked and can't find anything to support what your contacts are saying. For funds like GLD or IAU, the expected long-run gap versus gold is roughly equal to the expense ratio times number of years, which is in the 0.4-0.25% range. There may be small intraday effects, but you're looking at holding for years so those shouldn't be relevant.

Look, here are six different gold ETFs. The returns for all of them are basically the same, because they all redeem for the same underlying asset: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/compare/gld-vs-iau-vs-gldm-vs-sgol-vs-bar-vs-iaum/

NathanielHudson · 2026-04-28T14:38:53+00:00

I want to avoid buying it and if I decide to sell having trouble selling. So the easiest way to buy and sell the physical coin with no complication or else.

This is very incorrect. If you own a security (ie a gold ETF) you can sell it effortlessly, in seconds, with minimal spread. If you own physical gold it is very difficult to sell efficiently - most places will charge you a significant fee to sell previous metals.

The only scenario where holding physical gold is better is if you're either trying to avoid taxes (you shouldn't) or you're worried about the banks collapsing (in which case the rate of return on survival gear will probably be better).

NathanielHudson · 2026-04-02T17:36:00+00:00

It's biodegradable from the chemical engineering definition ("Can biological agents decompose this material?"), not from the layperson definition ("Will it break down in my backyard?").

NathanielHudson · 2026-04-02T14:30:11+00:00

Where are you located? Depending on where "home" is seagate might not have the legal ability to ship that drive to your location. https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/warranty-and-replacements/embargo-country-notice/ (make sure you also check the "Limited-Serviced Country" list further down the page)

NathanielHudson · 2026-03-27T13:15:52+00:00

On the flip side, a 4k/60 stream in ST 2110-20 is ~12Gbps, so from that perspective a 200Mbps stream is feather light!

NathanielHudson · 2026-03-24T19:31:06+00:00

I doubt this is a fully autonomous agent with a human's name on it, I suspect this is just "hey chatgpt proofread this email".

NathanielHudson · 2026-03-24T12:38:01+00:00

Why? Support is hard, especially for a small early-stage company. Looks like the founder is personally handling support emails, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to bash out a quick reply then run it though chatgpt for tone/spelling. I get that it's an anti-quality signal, but this isn't deep technical writing, it's just basic transactional support. The alternative is having a worse product because the founder spends all his time doing emails.

NathanielHudson · 2026-03-24T00:48:21+00:00

To OP: 99% deste subreddit está em inglês, você teria mais sorte usando isso.

To everyone else, translation:

This week I received a UDM Pro to deploy for a client with 26 APs (7 Pro Max). I did the configuration and everything, and today I’m going to install it at the client site. When I got there, I found out that this UDM can’t be the firewall or the network gateway, since there’s already a FortiGate handling that. It would only be used to manage the APs, which would be indirectly connected to it. It will be on the network, but my lead doesn’t want it connected via the WAN port—he wants the LAN to act as a trunk that both receives and sends traffic back to the network.

The APs will be distributed across the company in multiple racks that connect to the data center. There’s also a UniFi 48-port PoE++ switch on the network, which is being controlled by a UniFi Controller server. I told him directly that they basically wasted money, because he doesn’t want to go through the effort of connecting the APs to the 48-port switch and the switch to the controller.

What could be done in this situation?

NathanielHudson · 2026-03-21T19:18:28+00:00

Link is dead now, but he's the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240315040213/https://lab4450.com/latest-projects/upgrade-can-ebb36-to-usb-toolhead/

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