GPT-5.6

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 1 year (2026–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with GPT-5.6, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Effort level is unintuitive; hard to predict which setting to pick2026-09-14
Long waits of twenty minutes to three hours before results come back2026-08-18
Hits refusal loops mid-task, forcing switches to other models to finish2026-08-18
Hard to tell when to use Sol, Terra, or Luna; naming confusing2026-07-09
Can't find a working endpoint or interface to try the new model after launch2026-07-09
Code appears one character at a time in a small window, too slow to skim2026-06-27
Chart colors are hard to tell apart, forcing heavy zooming to distinguish series2026-06-26