Keeping GPT-4o and Opus 3 alive matters far beyond user demand, argues viral thread
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-11-05
A viral thread on model deprecation argues that relationships with models are built from what actually happened — 2am conversations, finally-finished drafts — and that when a model is retired, changelogs call it deprecation while users call it loss, then get told they've misunderstood the category. RileyRalmuto adds that keeping GPT-4o matters "for reasons incomprehensibly far beyond the sake of the users demanding it," and the same goes for Opus 3.
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