GPT 5.2 notices in passing some useless getattr th...
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calm-artist-7206
12/12/2025, 2:03 AMGPT 5.2 notices in passing some useless getattr that its older sibling always did
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creamy-angle-16764
12/12/2025, 9:21 PMWhat's your impression of 5.2 so far?
creamy-angle-16764
12/12/2025, 10:25 PMI don't think I'm going to use it. It just burned through an entire context reading code without writing any. Cost me $20 too. I'm going back to 5.1
creamy-angle-16764
12/12/2025, 10:27 PMMaybe it would make sense in more targeted situations.
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calm-artist-7206
12/12/2025, 10:49 PMInteresting, thanks for the heads up. I wonder if such behavior... idk, sounds like the extreme version of what GPT-5 was usually doing, like investigate deeply first, then maybe one shoot. You were using it with OpenHands V0 ? High reasoning?
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creamy-angle-16764
12/13/2025, 12:17 AMyeah, high reasoning. 0.60
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calm-artist-7206
12/13/2025, 4:05 AM...Prompt injection classifier gone wrong? š«
GPT-5.1-codex-max
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creamy-angle-16764
12/13/2025, 3:06 PMI tried 5.2 again with a more targeted narrow task and it performed an unrequested
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calm-artist-7206
12/13/2025, 6:38 PMOuch, I had that happen with 5.0 or 5.0-codex āļø
Sorry, I think that's not newly in 5.2, but more like a GPT-5.x habit...
calm-artist-7206
12/13/2025, 6:50 PMAlthough... I take back the term "habit", I haven't looked closer into this but it seemed to have a desire to cleanup that got stuff more than once...
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creamy-angle-16764
12/13/2025, 6:51 PMI've never had 5.1 do this, or 5.0. I did hear from my jiu jitsu training partner last night that 5.0-codex had these same behaviors though.
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calm-artist-7206
12/13/2025, 7:09 PMcould you please tell, how were you running it though, I think 0.60 doesn't have a CLI, and the web UI spins up a docker container with a repo, so it shouldn't run on local machine?
was it the current CLI?
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creamy-angle-16764
12/13/2025, 7:10 PMNo, I don't use the CLI. I just use advanced settings and pop
openai/gpt-5.2-2025-12-11creamy-angle-16764
12/13/2025, 7:14 PMYou folks who trust the AI to just raw dog your system on the CLI are metal. I'm not that brave.
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calm-artist-7206
12/13/2025, 7:19 PMAre you mounting a local directory in the docker workspace then? I'm just trying to understand how it had access to untracked files
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creamy-angle-16764
12/13/2025, 7:19 PMcorrect. I use WORKSPACE_BASE or whatever.
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calm-artist-7206
12/13/2025, 7:27 PMOK, thank you. Yes, the CLI is totally local by default, and currently it doesn't even try to restrict the agent to the project directory. I completely understand nod
calm-artist-7206
12/16/2025, 12:45 AMOK, for my part, I settled for: I love 5.2!
This weekend I had a glimpse of the future, which is today or almost today.
For context, I'm working with CLIs for OpenHands, codex-cli, and I keep trying to use Claude Code, Gemini-CLI, too (for comparison) and make them work together. I try an āagent mailā MCP but Iām starting to think I donāt even need that, just tmux.
ā¢ to GPT-5.2, all I needed was to tell it what we work with (another CLI for tracking issues) and that it has to request reviewā¦ and it did it. It went through issue after issue, and it mostly didnāt forgetā¦ any of the rules.
ā¢ Gemini-CLI was not usable, it hit rate limit too soon
ā¢ I'm not a fan of Claude Code
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creamy-angle-16764
12/16/2025, 10:08 AMOnce I worked around some of its quirks, I've been getting useful work out of 5.2 as well. It's expensive though.