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  "path": "/t/perceived-drop-in-gpt-5-quality-over-the-last-few-weeks/1382225#post_16",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T17:00:47.000Z",
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  "textContent": "We’ve experienced similar degradation over the past week or so. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when it started, but we have been using GPT-5.5 xhigh almost exclusively since release across several firmware and software repositories.\n\nAlong with the drop in output quality, we have also noticed faster response times and significantly higher context usage across nearly every type of work. The outputs have become so unreliable that we have had to pull back on development for the time being. At this point, the business accounts feel like cash incinerators when used for this workflow, because we are discarding most of what is generated.\n\nThis is now the second time in a month I have posted about a major disruption. The first was related to the sharp reduction in usable business account allotments. Those accounts effectively became pay-per-token almost overnight. We understood there had been a temporary 2x boost, but the actual reduction felt closer to 5x to 10x, with very little transparency around the change.\n\nNow we are dealing with degraded output, increased context usage, and faster generation of responses that we often have to throw away. That combination creates another serious business disruption.\n\nIt is one thing to absorb higher costs. It is another thing entirely when those higher costs are paired with unusable output.\n\nHopefully whatever caused this regression is addressed quickly, and the broader pattern of business disruptions and limited transparency improves. The earlier Codex models won us over, and GPT-5.5 initially looked very promising, but the current experience is not workable for serious development use.",
  "title": "Perceived Drop in GPT-5 Quality Over the Last Few Weeks"
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