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GPT‑5.2 Boosts Reasoning, Yet Overwhelms with Verbosity

🚨 OpenAI has released GPT-5.2. I had early testing access (thank you, OAI team) and here is my honest take: 👍 On the upside, the thinking and problem-solving feel noticeably stronger. It gives much deeper explanations than I’m used to seeing. At one point it literally wrote code to improve its own OCR in the middle of a task. Wow. Idea exploration also feels a bit richer than what I have seen from Claude Opus 4.5 on similar prompts; it stays with a line of thought longer and pushes into edge cases instead of skating on the surface. The new UI is fun and makes the model feel “bigger,” but it also adds layers that I suspect will overwhelm a casual consumer who just wants quick answers. 👎 The downside is tone and format. The default voice felt a bit more rigid, and the length/markdown behavior is extreme: a simple question turned into 58 bullets and numbered points. Copying and pasting into email will be annoying. Useful for a detailed spec review, but a wee bit exhausting when you just want one clear decision or a short explanation. I suspect the ‘instant’ model and routing will fix that, but I only had access to thinking and pro. In practice, this version feels optimized for: - Deeper problem-solving - Structured analysis where you really do want every branch of reasoning - Power users who are comfortable skimming longer outputs In that sense, GPT-5.2 feels like a step toward “AI as a serious analyst,” and less “AI as a friendly companion.” My favorite model remains Claude Opus 4.5 but my complex ChatGPT work will get a nice incremental boost and I’ll probably default to 5.2 for brainstorming/solution exploration.