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]
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Especially while still maintaining an accelerationist position w.r.t. continued model development.
How are there only 3 comments on here? This is the most insanely useful post I’ve read all week, all such excellent advice, thank you! Really sad that I’m only reading this now a few days too late though, I just recently got my closest friend a gift but it was honestly just the absolute worst, most terrible gift I could have chosen, it’s not something they like at all and I don’t think they will ever want to use it.
Do you have any thoughts on perishable vs non-perishable items as gifts though? I realized recently that I kind of almost never give perishable items as gifts (e.g. chocolates, pens/pencils, plants) because I always felt subconsciously like maybe they seem ‘cheap’ or something? I can’t really describe it. But I’m curious to hear others’ opinions.