New Model

Today Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT Sol and Luna came out. My experience with them has been somewhat mind-blowing.

First things first, I’ve conversed a lot more with Opus 5.5 than the GPT 6 models. In my experience, Opus 5.5 is so much better at regular conversation and writing. When I talk to it, it feels so much more natural. It feels less try-hard, if that makes sense.

I had Opus 5.5 write a couple of animations and videos and I was incredibly impressed. It does not look AI-generated anymore. It’s very, very impressive and it reminded me of the picture of the quote, “How far do we have to stretch the picture before pixelating the human texture?” I literally remind myself of that quote every day.

Now in light of there being a new model release, I decided to work on some projects that I have not really touched in a minute. One of them was Nudge, in which I made some meaningful improvements to the overall working order of it (the tmux version of Claude Code) and it overall just feels much smoother. I am currently working on a connection to Codex.

In addition I had it work on some other stuff like Christmas cards and just the journal. I had it come up with a couple of different sorts of designs just to see how its UI work would do. Again I was very impressed.

Overall today was pretty good. I definitely was locked out of my physics class just because of the new models and everything.