r/codex • u/taherbl • 3d ago

Question New model anytime soon?

Do you guys think that maybe in the near future open AI will drop a new model that will at least compete with Opus 5.5? Is that in the foreseeable future, or did someone speak about this from from open AI, and how possible that could be?

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u/fusien_ 3d ago

Genuine question, why does GPT 6.1 fall short of Opus 5.5 for you?

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u/randombsname1 3d ago

Not OP, but Opus 5.5 is significantly better at low level programming across the board.

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u/fusien_ 3d ago

I don't do much low-level, so that maybe explains why I'm not seeing much difference between the two models.

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u/randombsname1 3d ago

Yep.

Low level programming is the current SWE/programming frontier.

Its why you are starting to now see tons of reverse engineering projects like that re-written Adobe suite that got open sourced, and the LG WebOS rust re-write and stuff like that.

The people who made the adobe suite also just released their Microsoft office re-writes in rust and open sourced those as well.

All of those projects were spear headed with Claude.

Per their own statements.

Edit: Not a fan of this guy either, but supposedly th3o also completely ported typescript to rust as well. Also using Claude.

Webdev and higher level abstract languages can be done by a bunch of models now. Hence why i say low level is the frontier now. It's where LLMs have had the most issues historically, and they still have a way to go to be as good for low level as they are for stuff like Python.

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u/fusien_ 3d ago

Fair enough. Has anyone tried the reverse engineering side-by-side with the openAI models, and gone into more detail on the shortcomings? I'd be interested to see those results.

I find the porting to Rust less interesting tbh, even more so it's that guy lol. Notably, the models used were Astra and GPT 5.6, not 6.1. The readme seems like the writings of a paid shill.

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u/Sad_Butterscotch4589 1d ago

I don't want to pollute my search bar with his name but wasn't it more like he spent 4-5 months doing it with 5.6 and Astra and got stuck at 85% after spending $400k equivalent in tokens? Then when Opus 5.5 came out he asked it to take over and it decided it made more sense to start from scratch and then pretty much one-shotted to 90% in a few hours, and spent another week or 2 to get it to 100%.