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Ask HN: Is GPT-5.5 being nerfed?

A user on Hacker News claims that OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model has become less proactive and lazier since the release of GPT-5.6, based on their experience using the model on the xhigh setting. The post asks others to share their observations, but has received no comments as of yet.

read1 min views21 publishedJul 13, 2026

Ever since the release of GPT-5.6, I've noticed that GPT-5.5 is sometimes being lazy and isn't as proactively following up with remaining tasks in the session as before. I've always been using it on xhigh. How has your experience been?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891438](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891438)

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