CHChubby♨️@kimmonismusTECH
Judging by all the GPT-5.6 Sol early-access posts, it sounds as though OpenAI has achieved the major leap we had been hoping for.
GPT-5.6 is said to be better in every respect: eager, capable of working for long stretches, better at frontend tasks, and it essentially never gives up. In short: a significant leap that, oddly enough, carries only an iterative version number, even though the improvements would seem to point more toward GPT “6”.
What is particularly interesting, however, is the fact that some testers have already had access to GPT-5.6 for months (!). Months, not weeks. That, in turn, suggests that after tomorrow’s release, the next version is already waiting in the wings.
There is, of course, the widely mentioned caveat that Fable 5 should still be somewhat better overall. But if GPT-5.6 is, first, the major leap, and second, already months old, then there is nothing preventing us from seeing another major leap in the very near future.
Since GPT-5.5, at least for myself, I have noticed that I switch between Codex and Claude Code on a daily basis. OpenAI has achieved something outstanding, GPT-5.5 is great, and I think the end is still nowhere in sight. In that sense, the positive excitement about the future remains.
Caveat: I did not have early access myself. This summary is based only on what I have read so far.
