5 engineers on Hacker News describe using GPT-5.5 first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“It tends to provide a fully functional and complete result from a zero-shot prompt. It's as close as I've gotten to pair programming”
endorse · personal · TomasBM · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for me Cursor with GPT-5 often generates Elixir that isn't even syntactically correct.”
regret · personal · dns_snek · 2025-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run each model multiple times against each challenge and take the average score.”
neutral · production · iopapa · 2026-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“GPT 5.5 is also a bit more expensive than 5.4, if we run tests at scale it has to be affordable.”
neutral · production · okwasniewski · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So we switched to GPT 5.4 nano.”
neutral · production · jbellis · 2026-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?