Yes
GPT 5.5 is the first model good enough for me to just let rip
spicyusername on Hacker News
70 to 90%+ code coverage
In the thread “Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?”
Helped: Frontier model quality and detailed ticket/commit standards.
A lot of people down on AI in this thread, but I'm watching the industry slip over the line of trust with these latest frontier models. GPT 5.5 is the first model good enough for me to just let rip. Every jira ticket I see now has acceptance criteria, reproduction steps, and detailed information about why the ticket exists. …