GPT-5.6 Sol Coding Experience Drops
Ubunta · x · 2026-07-17
The author notes a decline in confidence regarding GPT-5.6 Sol.
Despite a great first-day experience that kept them from opening Claude and felt like finding a new default model, they switched back to Claude Opus after a few days.
The reason: Sol generates "too much" code, and API credit consumption is much faster than expected. This feedback focuses less on abstract benchmarks and more on output style and cost experience during real-world coding.
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