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MixedClaude Code, Codex · 2 Jul 2026

Opus will churn for 30 seconds, and GPT 5.5 will respond in about three seconds

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Opus will churn for 30 seconds, and GPT 5.5 will respond in about three seconds

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Helped: Testing models side-by-side on trivial and hard tasks to compare speed and capability.

Got in the way: Agents struggle with database internals, advanced UIs, and schema design.

… Ask them a trivial question about something that's already in their context. Opus will churn for 30 seconds, and GPT 5.5 will respond in about three seconds. If you try the same with Fable 5 you'll notice way better adaptive thinking than Opus (it'll quicker than Opus, even on xhigh – although often still slower than 5.5). …