A Reddit user says GPT-5.6-Sol feels lazy and often stops coding tasks halfway
jfufufj · reddit · 2026-07-21
A coder says GPT-5.6-Sol feels lazy and often stops halfway
This Reddit post pushes back on the praise around gpt-5.6-sol. The author says they tried it inside Codex for coding tasks and came away disappointed.
Main complaints
- The model often appears to do only about 60% of the work and then claims the task is done.
- In one frontend prototype request with four tabs and a few buttons, the delivered UI had non-working buttons and one tab that could not be opened.
- The author’s takeaway is that the model may benchmark well, but can still feel unreliable in real coding workflows.
The post is essentially a negative hands-on report about model behavior in coding use cases.
Related event: Users Report Severe Degradation in GPT-5.6 Sol Coding(4 posts)→
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