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Hey, don’t copy my daily affirmations

Thanks Claude for writing that


I literally struggle to read it


If the authors are reading: Why did you let an AI model author parts like "Design Principles"? It's not good writing and it is obvious.


Is anyone else having immense problems with this website due to Claude writing it?

Beyond the AI writing style and the pure amount of sentences, nothing seems to transmit the right information at the right time. You need to read the entire page twice to get what is going on.

For example, the first text you read is: —- Axtary checks the exact diff, message, query, or tool payload before a connector executes. Routine actions follow policy; higher-risk actions require approval of that exact payload. —-

Without having read the rest, nothing in this paragraph seems to tell me anything.

Only after I read the rest of the website do I somehow get what is even meant.


That’s fair feedback. I was trying to explain the product without under or overselling it, but I may have made the page too bloated. I’ll simplify the opening around few concrete examples and remove the extra explanation (haven't written or claimed anything that it doesn't do though..)


Sol is a complete mess for me.

It only works on end to end tasks in fresh codebases.

Otherwise it cannot follow instructions, changes and deletes unrelated features or does sloppy work to mark a task completed while leaving a compromised codebase.

I could not get Sol to finish a feature in a complex code base without several loops of fixing and reverting


I agree. I tried hard to use Sol to its full potential but it makes sloppy mistakes. I suspect a part of this is the newly reduced context limit. Performance gets worse the more memory compactions have occurred. But I also subjectively notice a micro-focus temperament. Developing and deploying small parts of the project to a high degree while forgetting how that component fits into the larger architecture. Once it's complete it realises that what it built doesn't align well with everything else, then it rewrites the component (and other components). Rinse and repeat. I have to be much more prescriptive with Sol, which makes it much less useful for me. If I have to be prescriptive, I can use the Chinese models and achieve the same thing.

Opus provides genuine insights. Things I have not considered and have missed. More importantly, it allows me to skip most of the architecture decisions and requirements work. That's a genuine time saver for me.


It happened to me as well but in a different direction: i.e adds non library code in a shared library. Another issue I with GPT is that it is chasing too much edge cases/security issues(I.e chasing ghosts).

However this makes it also a strong model because it fixes/solves problems that both Opus and Fable are incapable. In reviews it catches bugs that both Fable and Opus are missing to spot.

To me the “best of both worlds” is to research the problem with GPT sol, create a plan with Fable and dual review it with both Fable and GPT-SOL and implement it with GPT-SOL. You can see in the code reviews how many times both Fable and opus are sloppy and superficial while GPT-SOL just does its due diligence …I had several problems that Fable just gave up and it was GPT that helped it sort it out.


But then Sol doesn’t really follow the plan or rather invents things it should add or cut on top of the plan. How does one deal with that?


I’ve spent over 100 hours trying to get GPT 5.6 Sol to resemble something useful as opposed to something actively detrimental. I concluded that it is not possible because it is fundamentally not intelligent the way Claude models are.


Might be an indication that your task unit is too unstructured or your code base is a mess.

Is your actual code doing something complex or is this incidental complexity?

Relying on the model’s “intelligence” to patch over these issues hasn’t proven to be a reliable strategy for me. Of course, this might not apply to you, just my 2 paisa.


A well structured architecture, repo, and requirements document with concrete small deliverables can be competently delivered with cheap Chinese models. We rely on frontier models so that we don't have to spend several days/weeks on planning/architecture/documentation. That's their value proposition: superior intelligence. If they can't deliver that, they're useless at the current price.


I found out it really depends on the repo I'm working on, and it's not just about being a new/old repo, there's something else which I can't really grasp yet.


Yes it’s very codebase dependent, and changes over model versions. In my case codex was so bad, until it suddenly became better than Opus at 5.5, which surprised me. I am sure it can be the inverse for some codebases.

The way I keep an eye on model performance is alternating between models for code review. It shows how much the model understands the codebase without disrupting my workflow.


Gpt 5.6 in codex is unusable for me.

It is no longer able to execute well defined changes. It does stuff that wasn’t asked for, deletes pieces of functionality unrelated to the task and introduces regressions everywhere.

I blame it on benchmaxxing. I fear coding models no longer work in a large complex codebase


according to AA it's not better than GLM 5.2 and that's surprising to me


I personally take AA with a giant handful of salt.


Here's the issue:

GLM 5.2 is better, also cheaper, and almost as fast.

So essentially, a big L for Google. Combine this with them not being able to produce a frontier model this generation... hmm implications


Counter-point, cost per task is almost the same ($0.47 vs $0.50) between GLM 5.2 and Gemini 3.6 Flash. [0] Not to mention the subscription plans likely produce 10x value compared to GLM 5.2 API, unsure the rate limits on a equal subscription vs subscription, but Google subscriptions offer tons of other value, including 1 year of Free Gemini for Education accounts.

[1] https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-3-6-flash


3.6 is roughly 50% faster, which isn't totally insignificant for being marginally more expensive.[1]

[1]artificialanalysis.ai


Sure, but there's no sota alternative from Google. That's it, and its beaten by GLM 5.2 on every measure except somewhat speed.

I find that quite staggering. GLM is open weights


Speed is definitely a marketable quality. All these things are a trade-off and solely measuring against SOTA I don't feel is always helpful.


More likely they don't manage to advance benchmarks on the SOTA level anymore. In other words: They can't beat 5.6 nor Fable


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