GPT 5.5 just did what no other model could

Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vaux, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, I have a very special episode for you where I'm gonna tell you everything I think about the new GPT 5.5 model, which I've been able to test for the past couple weeks. Spoiler alert, it is a powerhouse, and I've been able to do things with this model, especially around advanced coding, that I haven't been able to do before with any other model on the market. And I'm gonna show you how it breaks my personal high-tech eval hacking into this little computer. Let's get to it. So before I tell you what I built with GPT 5.5, let me tell you a little bit about the model itself. So today, OpenAI is releasing GPT 5.5 and GPT 5.5 Pro into codecs and ChatGPT, not available in the API quite yet. And this model, I've been testing for the past couple weeks, and I will tell you what OpenAI is saying is true. They're saying that it has a higher capacity for complex work and is more efficient, including being more token efficient getting that work done. And so the whole idea with this model is it's smarter and it's more efficient, so you're gonna get more done. And that has really been my experience. Now I'm glad it's more efficient because it is expensive. GPT 5.5 is $5 per million input tokens and $30 for output tokens. And GPT 5.5 pro, which has powered all this work that I've been doing, is 30 for a million input tokens and a $180 for output tokens. So this is a pricey one, but when I reflect on what I was able to achieve with this model in early testing, I'm gonna I'm gonna pay I'm gonna pay the intelligence tax because I think what I was able to achieve is really important. And this is one of the things that I think about a lot when I'm testing these new models or testing these new tools. You know, everything has an ROI, and there can be an ROI in terms of speed. So can I get the things done that I wanna get done faster? And that's certainly been an accelerant from an AI tooling perspective and something we've all experienced for the past couple years. But where GPT 5.5 really helps me is ambition. It has been able to do things that literally I have not been able to do before for a couple reasons. One, just intelligence higher is solved problems that other models and other harnesses other than codex have really had a hard time with. The second thing I've experienced is because the efficiency is higher, I'm able to do more faster without losing context of what I'm working on because it's happening really quickly, or it's being more autonomous so I don't have to babysit as …