u/spadaa

So this was Google I/O's big 2026 "reveal"?

• A second-tier flash model with "promises" of a frontier model; as Anthropic/OpenAI pump out frontier hits.
• Dramatic usage limit decreases for paid users, making it worse than Claude and ChatGPT.
• A whole bunch of random useless side quests that no one cares about - quantity over quality.

Today really gave Bard vibes. This is the first time I think we're worse off after an "upgrade".

I find GPT 5.5 very hard to do any complex tasks in due to the much more aggressive usage caps similar to Claude Opus.

And the improvements are marginal compared to 5.4 for many use cases, even complex ones.

So, despite the initial excitement, I still do most of my work on Codex on 5.4, so as to not get blocked for hours/days.

Anyone else in the same boat?