What Goes Around Comes Around: A New Model Every Month and a Half

The long-awaited OpenAI "potato" dropped today. Turns out it's not GPT-6, but GPT-5.5. I tried it out right after it came out and found that it fixed the thing that annoyed me most about 5.4: it finally started talking like a human . Back in the 5.4 days, reading through Codex's output process was torture. Words piled on top of each other with no logic, status reports and execution notes jumping back and forth—you mostly couldn't tell what it was actually doing. 5.5 fixed this, and the readabili