Frontier models get stale in two weeks, user says native video and audio are the missing piece
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-10-14
An AI user notes that the novelty of frontier models wears off in about a week or two: after two weeks of constant use of Opus 5.5, he already knows everything it's good and bad at and is ready for the next model.
What he really wants is native video viewing and native audio hearing built into the models — capabilities he believes would fix many current shortcomings.
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