points by bluegatty 20 hours ago | 0 comments
You wouldnt normally use a dumb model as a personal agent to get a smarter model to do work, but you may make use of that mechanism in some kind of automation process.
But there are definitely cases.
GPT Pro is an absolutely spectacular model, that almost cannot be used without 'prompt help'. Or rather, it can only be effectively leveraged by very intricate prompting, which requires the help of another agent.
I typically use Claude Code to write prompts for GPT Pro , and cut and paste the prompt in, and let GPT Pro work for 20 minutes, then take the response back to Claude Code and work with Opus to consider the results.
Opus is 'dumber' (nominally) then GPT Pro.
[–] agentdev001 15 hours ago
[–] bluegatty 12 hours ago
It's branded as a separate model, but really it's like an 'ultrathinking' mode of OAI's model.
The details are not public but it's parallel test time compute and multi search, aka the model reasons along different vectors and compares answers.
If 'feels like' a smarter model, even though I'm pretty sure it's a synthetic variation of Astra.
It is by far the 'smartest model' if you were to benchmark it, and many of OAIs released were based on this.
There are few or no benchmark scores on it because it's not suitable for harness testing or coding, it's almost designed to be 'one shot' or 'few shot'.
It takes 8-25 to answer, and if you give it a sufficiently sophisticated prompt, it will think for 1 hour.
It requires OAI's 'pro' account aka the $200/month one.
It's the best open secret in AI, I can't recommend it enough.
[–] agentdev001 11 hours ago