Yes
I find GPT 5.6 can be prone to overengineering, but with a little steering and good judgement it generates very nice interfaces and high level code
Gangway0829 on Hacker News
> 90% of the code is boilerplate
In the thread “GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter”, replying to this comment
Helped: Steering, good judgement, and writing tests.
Got in the way: Prone to overengineering without steering.
… Perhaps you have a different experience from me in writing HPC codes, but my experience is that > 90% of the code is boilerplate. I find GPT 5.6 can be prone to overengineering, but with a little steering and good judgement it generates very nice interfaces and high level code. I just have to think about the solver structure or metastructure. …