Users Find GPT-5.6 Outperforms Opus 5 in Practical Tests

Practical tests by developers reveal that models like Claude Opus 5 suffer from over-engineering and over-explaining simple tasks. Users prefer GPT-5.6 for its direct, stable performance in coding and processing tasks.

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