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For both these problems GPT 5.2 has been able to come to the same ideas as my best, which took me quite a bit of brain racking to get to
mulmboy on Hacker News
In the thread “Running out of places to move the goalposts to”
Helped: Steering, context management, and user judgement to discard options.
… The last few days I've been working on some particularly tricky problems, tricky in the domain and in backwards compatibility with our existing codebase. For both these problems GPT 5.2 has been able to come to the same ideas as my best, which took me quite a bit of brain racking to get to. Granted it's required a lot of steering and context management from me as well as judgement to discard other options. …