TL; DR:

• Better code does not guarantee efficiency
• Review loops need stopping conditions
• Scope control still belongs to you
• YouTube would not let me schedule a stream so... no stream 😦

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GPT-5.6 Sol Impressed Me -- Then It Wouldn't Stop

One of the weirdest parts of using a stronger coding model is that the failures can start looking useful.

I had been using the Opus models pretty heavily, especially because the large context window was genuinely impressive. Then I switched back to a GPT model with GPT-5.6 Sol, and my first reaction was basically: holy crap, this thing is good.

I have written before about how different models can change the shape of a Copilot workflow. This was one of the clearest examples I have felt in practice. Sol was not just producing code I liked. It was noticing things around the requested work that other models had missed.

That sounds great, right?