'More Capable = Less Useful?' Reddit User Rants Frontier Models Keep Getting Worse
86obsessed · reddit · 2026-10-31
A Reddit user posted a long rant arguing frontier models are becoming less useful as they get 'smarter': models substitute their interpretation for explicit requests, anchor prematurely, and persist down useless paths — citing 6.1 Sol High's 'reliability failure' self-diagnosis as evidence. The author says every release makes this worse, nearly all frontier models (ChatGPT included) have been nearly unusable for weeks, and no benchmark measures 'general usefulness' — an elephant in the room the industry ignores.
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