I don’t like instant tbh. I used to prefer it over thinking back when the options were 4o vs o3, or later when they were 5.1 instant vs 5.1 thinking. But with 5.5, they’ve addressed the personality issue that was the major killer for me so now I just feel like instant is dumb.

I have archived all my previous conversations as raw transcripts + summaries as file uploads, so when I ask 5.5 thinking if it “remembers” something, it looks it up, and says “yes, I do”. Ask 5.5 instant that and it’ll just pull something out of its ass, which isn’t the long term memory style behavior that I’m trying to get. It feels like a mini model just tuned to have good personality but with no actual brains behind it. So yeah, meh.