Second dev confirms GPT-6.1 bloat woes, scrapping v1 to rebuild from first principles
Yamapama · x · 2026-10-31
Responding to complaints about GPT-6.1 Sol's overengineering, developer Yamapama says he had the exact same experience: a months-long project ballooned in size and complexity, calling Sol and Astra "messy data hoarders."
His fix: treat v1 as a working prototype and rebuild v2 from first principles.
Related event: Devs slam GPT-6.1 over-engineering: 115K test lines for 6K code(3 posts)→
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