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OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.6 — three tiers, pitched as cheaper and faster than the frontier, and finally usable in Hermes Agent. I put it through a coding test and a real bug-audit against Fable.
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https://www.onchainaigarage.com/A first look at OpenAI's new GPT-5.6, which ships as three tiers — the flagship Sol plus the cheaper Terra and Luna — with two new ways to spend compute (Max for longer reasoning, Ultra for parallel agents) and programmatic tool calling. I cover the benchmarks and the pitch (roughly frontier-level intelligence at notably lower cost and higher speed), then run Sol in Hermes Agent on my hard One Piece × Star Wars coding test and turn Ultra loose on an Ultra bug-audit of one of my real projects — cross-checked against Fable. The real question: is this the model that becomes my daily driver, and how does it hold up against Fable on actual work?
Timestamps:
0:00 - GPT-5.6 drops: three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna)
1:44 - Max vs Ultra + programmatic tool calling
2:56 - The benchmarks (and where it lands vs Fable)
4:14 - Cybersecurity jumps + the safety controls
5:17 - Pricing across the three tiers
5:45 - Task 1: the One Piece × Star Wars coding test
9:34 - Task 2: an Ultra bug-audit of a real project
12:18 - Cross-checking the findings against Fable
15:04 - First-look verdict
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