It’s only been a year since their best and worst models were named o4 and 4o, respectively. They still don’t seem to care much whether their model names make sense or are useful.
No I totally get that! I guess what my real complaint was, was that even after I went directly to their website because I was sick of the in-app vague Codex model descriptions, even once I was on OpenAI’s “Compare Models” page, the natural language descriptions for each model were still incredibly vague and incredibly general.
Like I bet I could swap out the description for GPT-5.2-Codex and GPT-5.4 and you wouldn’t even know a thing. I guess my expectation was just, if the model names are going to be awful, at least I’d hoped the actual descriptions on their website would be informative enough to fill the gap.
But in any case I think we should all stop supporting OpenAI anyway—I can’t wait for my sub to lapse. Bad customer service is one thing but it rather pales in comparison to supporting the military.[1]
I wonder if it’s partly because the descriptions are interdependent. As in, to keep them up to date, they’d need to update every description at each new release, since which is best for what will change.
It’s only been a year since their best and worst models were named o4 and 4o, respectively. They still don’t seem to care much whether their model names make sense or are useful.
No I totally get that! I guess what my real complaint was, was that even after I went directly to their website because I was sick of the in-app vague Codex model descriptions, even once I was on OpenAI’s “Compare Models” page, the natural language descriptions for each model were still incredibly vague and incredibly general.
Like I bet I could swap out the description for GPT-5.2-Codex and GPT-5.4 and you wouldn’t even know a thing. I guess my expectation was just, if the model names are going to be awful, at least I’d hoped the actual descriptions on their website would be informative enough to fill the gap.
But in any case I think we should all stop supporting OpenAI anyway—I can’t wait for my sub to lapse. Bad customer service is one thing but it rather pales in comparison to supporting the military.[1]
Especially while still maintaining an accelerationist position w.r.t. continued model development.
I wonder if it’s partly because the descriptions are interdependent. As in, to keep them up to date, they’d need to update every description at each new release, since which is best for what will change.